■ Corporation Documents (CD): These documents do NOT need to be notarized. You CANNOT mail or drop off these types of documents. All Texas corporate apostille orders must be submitted online only.
■ You can only choose ONE foreign (non-USA) country per document. The Texas Secretary of State will only issue ONE apostille certificate for ONE document and ONE foreign (non-USA) country. This means the Texas Secretary of State will not issue multiple apostille certificates or issue apostilles for multiple countries on one document.
■ All Texas government corporate document filing fees are included in our flat-rate Texas apostille service pricing for corporation documents.
■ Please note: The Texas Secretary of State’s Corporations Division will only issue new certified copies of your company’s documents if those documents are already on file. This means that neither you nor our office can physically present or submit documents to the Texas Secretary of State for apostille processing. Your company must already have a Texas SOS file number assigned from your original entity filing.
Once your order is submitted, the Texas Secretary of State will issue new certified copies of your existing corporate documents and attach apostille certificates to them within 24–48 hours from the day we rush file your order. After processing is complete, we will use the prepaid return shipping label you provided to mail your apostilled documents back to you.
■ When creating and buying a FedEx, UPS, or DHL prepaid return shipping label, they will ask you for a sender’s address (from address), which means that if your documents get lost in the mail, the sender’s address is the return address to which the undelivered documents will be sent back to you by FedEx, UPS, or DHL.
You must put your name and address or your company’s name and address as the sender (from address) on the prepaid shipping label and/or on the customs invoice if shipping internationally. Depending on what foreign country you live in outside the U.S, the FedEx, UPS, or DHL online system may detect your foreign IP address and not allow you to use your foreign address as the sender (from address). If this happens, you will need to list a friend’s, relative’s, or company office address within the U.S. as the sender (from address).
You CANNOT put our company name (Apostille Texas), address, or phone number as the sender or importer because we are not the sender or importer. The sender/importer is you because you created and paid for the prepaid return shipping label, not us, and you are 100% responsible for paying all current shipping and any future customs charges when shipping internationally.
We will not mail your documents back to you if you mail, email, or drop off to us a prepaid return shipping label or a customs invoice that incorrectly lists our company name, phone number, or address anywhere on it. FedEx, UPS, and DHL attempt to collect unpaid shipping bills from our company because people and companies do not pay their full shipping charges and customs fees when shipping internationally.
■ The Texas Secretary of State no longer issues or apostilles the following documents: Certificates of Good Standing, Articles of Incorporation, and Certificates of Incorporation.
Replacement documents to order:
- Certificate of Good Standing → Certificate of Fact
- Articles of Incorporation → Certificate of Formation
- Certificate of Incorporation → Certificate of Formation