Can you help me obtain a apostille or
authentication certificate on a document that was
issued or notarized from another state besides Texas?
No, sorry, we cannot help you if this is the case.
Apostille Texas only offers rush Texas apostille services (Texas Secretary of State), expedited federal apostille services (U.S Department of State in Washington, D.C), and embassy document legalization services in Washington, D.C (this third step is only needed for non-Hague Convention member countries).
If you have a recordable document, it MUST be issued from the State of Texas, and if you have a non-recordable document, it MUST be notarized by a TEXAS notary public.
We cannot help you obtain state-level apostilles and authentication certificates on any type of recordable document (such as birth certificates, death certificates, marriage licenses, marriage certificates, divorce decrees and divorce certificates) that were issued from any of the other 49 states (Texas ONLY) or any non-recordable documents that were notarized by a licensed notary public in any of the 49 U.S states (Texas notaries ONLY).
If your recordable document was issued from one of the below 49 states (non-Texas) or your document was notarized by a notary public from one of these other 49 states (non-Texas notary public), you must go through and you can only be issued an apostille or authentication certificate from the document origin states’ Secretary of State office.
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
