Texas Secretary of State
Apostille & Authentication
- Same-day Texas apostille services.
- Hand-filed with the Texas Secretary of State in Austin, TX.
- Live phone and email support.
- Recordable, non-recordable, and Texas Corporations Section documents.
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U.S. Department of State
Apostille & Authentication
- Expedited federal apostille services.
- Hand-filed with the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C.
- Live phone and email support.
- Federally issued documents and documents for non-Hague Convention member countries.
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Embassies & Consulates
Document Legalizations
- Rush embassy legalization services.
- Hand-filed with foreign embassies in Washington, D.C.
- Live phone and email support.
- International document legalization and attestation for non-Hague member countries.
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Apostille Texas Customer Service
Apostille Texas provides email customer support seven days a week. We answer questions about apostille requirements, document preparation, notarization, authentication, embassy legalization, processing procedures, and international document requirements. If you’re not sure what your document needs or where to process it, contact Apostille Texas, and we’ll help you determine the next steps.
We assist customers with Texas apostille services, U.S. Department of State apostille and authentication services, and embassy and consulate document legalization. We process personal, business, academic, commercial, and corporate documents for international use. Our goal is to make the international document certification process easy to understand—from preparing your documents to using them in another country.
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Expedited Texas Apostille Services
Apostille Texas provides expedited apostille, document authentication, and embassy legalization services for individuals, families, small businesses, corporations, law firms, schools, and organizations across the United States and around the world.
Whether you need a Texas document apostilled, a federal document apostilled or authenticated, or documents legalized for use in another country, we’ll help you determine the correct process and move your documents through the required certification steps.
Need a Texas apostille certificate fast? Our Texas apostille services include same-business-day filing for eligible documents with the Texas Secretary of State Authentications Unit in Austin, Texas. To qualify, we must receive your documents by mail or scheduled drop-off before our noon CST deadline.
Apostille Texas is based in Austin, Texas, allowing us to hand-file eligible documents with the Texas Secretary of State the same business day instead of forwarding them through an out-of-city or out-of-state intermediary.
Whether you’re in Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth, El Paso, elsewhere in Texas, anywhere in the United States, or around the world, you can send your documents directly to us for expedited Texas apostille services.
Need a federal apostille or authentication certificate? Our U.S. Department of State Apostille Services hand-filing eligible federal documents with the U.S. Department of State Office of Authentications in Washington, D.C. Although we personally hand-submit your documents, the U.S. Department of State controls the processing time. Federal apostille and authentication certificates currently take approximately 7–9 business days after submission.
Does your document require additional legalization for use in a non-Hague Apostille Convention country? Our Embassy Legalization Services include hand-filing eligible documents with foreign embassies and consulates in Washington, D.C. Processing times vary by country and diplomatic mission, but most embassies currently issue legalizations and attestations within approximately 5–10 business days after submission.
Texas Apostille Services Pricing
Apostille Texas offers straightforward, no-bull pricing for Texas apostille services, federal apostille and authentication services, and embassy legalization services. When you submit multiple documents at the same time, you’ll pay less for each additional document.
For our Texas apostille services, the first eligible document is just $95, including all required Texas Secretary of State filing fees. Each additional eligible document submitted at the same time is only $75, also including all required Texas Secretary of State filing fees.
We believe you should know the price before placing an order. That’s why we publish our Texas apostille pricing instead of requiring you to call, email, or request a quote just to find out what our services cost.
You’ll also find upfront pricing, processing information, and estimated turnaround times (TAT) for Texas Secretary of State apostilles, U.S. Department of State federal apostilles and authentications, and embassy legalization services throughout our website, including our service pages and order forms.
No annoying sales games, gimmicks, or pitches. No hidden pricing that forces you to call or email us just to get a quote. Just straightforward pricing, transparent processing information, and expedited apostille and document legalization services.
Worldwide Apostille & Legalization Services
Apostille Texas provides worldwide apostille, authentication, and document legalization services for personal, academic, business, commercial, and corporate documents used internationally. Whether you live in Texas, elsewhere in the United States, or another country, you can mail your eligible U.S. documents directly to us for expedited processing and international return shipping.
We provide expedited apostille and legalization services for documents used in any of the 220 Countries We Serve, including Mexico, Canada, Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, China, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
You don’t need to live in Austin to use our Texas apostille services. Customers in Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Plano, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, Corpus Christi, Lubbock, Amarillo, Midland, Odessa, Waco, College Station, and cities throughout Texas can mail their documents directly to our Austin office.
International customers and customers outside Texas do not need to travel to Austin or Washington, D.C. Depending on your document and the destination country, we’ll help you determine whether your documents require a Texas apostille, federal apostille, authentication certificate, or embassy and consulate legalization before guiding you through the correct process.
Personalized Texas Apostille Services
With Apostille Texas, you’re in control of how your apostille services are handled. We offer flexible processing, shipping, return delivery, and payment options for customers in Texas, throughout the United States, and around the world.
You choose how to send your documents. Use the shipping carrier and service that work best for you, including FedEx, UPS, DHL, or USPS.
You choose how we return your documents. Select your preferred shipping carrier and delivery speed for your completed Texas apostille, federal apostille, authentication certificate, or embassy-legalized documents.
You choose the processing speed. Depending on your document type and the required government agency, select the available turnaround time (TAT) that best fits your schedule.
You choose where your completed documents go. We can return your apostilled, authenticated, or legalized documents anywhere in the United States or around the world.
You choose how you pay. Apostille Texas accepts all major credit cards, debit cards, PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, Bitcoin, and Ethereum.
No confusing one-size-fits-all or cookie-cutter service options. Just choose the processing, shipping, delivery, and payment options that work best for you.
Texas Apostille Services Expertise
Unlike national apostille companies that advertise services in all 50 states, Apostille Texas specializes exclusively in Texas apostille services. We focus on Texas, where our company is based and where the Texas Secretary of State Authentications Unit is located in Austin.
We don’t operate as a national intermediary that accepts your original documents and forwards your Texas apostille orders to unrelated third-party courier companies. Our experienced legal services staff personally handles eligible Texas documents through the Texas Secretary of State in Austin.
Why does that matter? Lower costs, faster processing, greater accountability, and knowing exactly who is handling your original documents.
Some national apostille companies charge significantly more and publish longer turnaround times (TAT). Don’t just take our word for it. Visit our Apostille Service Competitors Comparison to compare our published pricing and turnaround times with 13 other apostille service companies.
We even provide links to each company’s website so you can verify the information yourself.
It’s a transparent tacos-to-tacos comparison. We were going to say apples-to-apples, but tacos are way better than apples.
Our Texas legal services staff passes criminal background checks and specializes in processing eligible Texas documents. We don’t claim to provide state apostille services for the other 49 states because expedited Texas apostille services are our specialty.
Need help beyond the Texas state level? We also provide U.S. Department of State Apostille Services for eligible federal documents and Embassy Legalization Services for documents requiring embassy or consulate legalization in Washington, D.C.
Free Texas Apostille Document Review
Not sure if your documents are ready for an apostille, authentication, or embassy legalization? Apostille Texas offers a free document review before you place your order.
Simply scan or take clear photos of your documents or identification and email them to us. Our experienced staff will review them for possible problems with document preparation, notarizations, signatures, certifications, or other issues that could cause a rejection.
Our free apostille document review is available by email before you place your order. Please do not mail or drop off your original documents to us for a free review.
If you mail your documents to Apostille Texas with a completed order form, we’ll consider them submitted for processing and will process them according to the services and authorization you selected on your order form.
During normal business hours, we typically review emailed document scans and photos within a few hours. If we identify a possible problem or need additional information about a government requirement, we’ll explain exactly what needs to be corrected or verified before you mail or drop off your original documents.
When necessary, we may also contact the appropriate government agency, foreign embassy, or consulate to help verify current document requirements.
Our experience working with the Texas Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State, and foreign embassies and consulates helps us identify potential problems before you spend time and money submitting documents that may not yet be ready for processing.
Once your free document review is complete, we’ll explain the next steps before you mail or drop off your original documents for expedited processing.
Our customer service doesn’t end when your documents are processed.
As an added service, we’ll photograph your completed Texas apostille, federal apostille, authentication certificate, or embassy-legalized documents and email the images to you before returning your originals using the prepaid shipping label or envelope you provide.
That way, you’ll know your documents have been successfully processed before your original documents are even back in your hands.
We call this complimentary service P.O.D. (Proof of Documentation).
Texas Apostille Documents
Apostille Texas provides expedited Texas apostille services for eligible documents issued or originating in the State of Texas. Depending on the document, you may need an original or certified copy of a Texas public record, while other documents must be properly notarized by a Texas notary public before we can rush-submit them to the Texas Secretary of State Authentications Unit in Austin.
Texas documents generally fall into two categories: recordable documents and non-recordable documents. Understanding the difference is important because each document type has different requirements before the Texas Secretary of State can issue an apostille certificate.
Need apostille instructions for a specific Texas city, college, or university? Browse our Texas Cities We Serve directory for city-specific apostille information, or visit our Texas Colleges We Serve directory for step-by-step instructions for Texas college diplomas, university degrees, transcripts, and other academic documents.
Texas Recordable Documents
For Apostille
Recordable documents are official Texas public records issued or certified by a Texas government office, court, county clerk, registrar, or other authorized government agency.
Examples include Texas birth certificates, death certificates, marriage certificates, marriage licenses, divorce decrees, divorce certificates, adoption records, court records, court orders, judgments, probate records, letters testamentary, letters of administration, name change orders, certified copies of legal proceedings, county clerk records, property records, deeds, assumed name certificates, certificates of occupancy, TXDPS criminal history reports, TXDPS certified driving records, and other certified Texas public records.
For these documents, the Texas Secretary of State requires an original or properly certified copy issued by the appropriate Texas authority. A photocopy or Texas-notarized copy of a recordable public document cannot be used instead of the required original or certified copy.
The Five-Year Texas Apostille Rule
The Texas Secretary of State states on its official website that original and certified Texas documents submitted for an apostille should generally have been issued within the past five years.
If the Texas Secretary of State cannot locate or verify the public official who signed the document, your document may be rejected. If that happens, you may need to obtain a newly issued certified copy before the State of Texas can issue an apostille certificate.
However, during our more than 17 years of providing expedited Texas apostille services, we have never had a Texas recordable document issued after the year 2000 rejected because the Texas Secretary of State could not verify the signing public official.
Past acceptance of older documents does not guarantee that the Texas Secretary of State will accept another older document in the future.
Texas Non-Recordable
Documents For Apostille
Non-recordable documents are private, personal, academic, professional, or business documents that are not issued as certified Texas public records. These documents generally must be properly notarized by a Texas notary public before they can be submitted to the Texas Secretary of State for an apostille certificate.
Examples include high school diplomas, college diplomas, university degrees, transcripts, school records, enrollment letters, graduation letters, certificates, powers of attorney, affidavits, sworn statements, declarations, authorization letters, consent forms, employment letters, employment verification letters, and identification copies such as passports, visas, PAN cards, and driver’s licenses.
Other examples include business agreements, commercial documents, invoices, utility bills, bank statements, tax statements, tax returns, phone bills, corporate bylaws, meeting minutes, board resolutions, company resolutions, contracts, letters of authorization, medical records, vaccination records, laboratory reports, translations, single status affidavits, financial documents, travel consent letters, permission letters, Social Security Administration (SSA) benefit letters, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefit letters, professional licenses, professional credentials, certificates of training, and many other privately issued documents.
Texas Corporations Documents
For Apostille
Texas Corporations Section documents do not require notarization, and you cannot mail or drop off these documents to Apostille Texas. All Texas corporation apostille orders must be submitted online.
Your company must already have a Texas Secretary of State file number, and the corporate document requiring an apostille must already be on file with the Texas Secretary of State Corporations Division.
After you place your online order, we’ll request new certified copies of your existing corporate documents directly from the Texas Secretary of State Corporations Division. The state then issues the certified copies and attaches a Texas apostille certificate to each document.
The Texas Secretary of State issues one apostille certificate per document for one destination country. All required Texas Secretary of State corporate filing fees are included in our flat-fee corporation apostille pricing.
Once we rush-file your order, the Texas Secretary of State typically issues the newly certified corporate documents and Texas apostille certificates within 24–48 hours.
Examples of Texas Corporations Section documents include Certificates of Formation, Certificates of Fact, Certificates of Fact – Assumed Name, Certificates of Fact – Conversion, Certificates of Fact – Name Change, Certificates of Fact – No Record, Certificates of Fact – Registered Agent/Office, Certificates of Fact – Merger, Certificates of Fact – Management, Certificates of Fact – Status & Registered Agent, Articles of Conversion, Articles of Incorporation, Articles of Organization, Authorizations of Agent, Assumed Name Certificates (Form 503), Certificates of Amendment, Certificates of Conversion, Certificates of Correction (Form 403), Certificates of Incorporation, Certificates of Limited Partnership, Certificates of Merger, Certificates of Organization, Certificates of Reinstatement, Certificates of Termination, Certificates of Withdrawal, and other official Texas Corporations Section records.
Instead of trying to determine your corporation document’s apostille requirements yourself, visit our Apostille Documents directory. Find your specific document to view its apostille requirements, processing information, pricing, and step-by-step ordering instructions.
