Texas Apostille Service Order Page

■ Next to each of the 84 different document types listed on the Select Document drop-down menu above, it will show either an RD, NRD, or CD. This will let you know if you need to get your documents notarized before you can mail or drop them off to us.

■ Recordable Document (RD) = These types of documents do not need to be notarized and they must be original or certified copies (no photocopies) that can only be issued from a Texas city or county clerk’s office or Texas Vital Statistics/Texas Vital Records). You cannot mail or drop off recordable documents that were issued from another state (non-Texas) or country to us. TEXAS ONLY!

■ Non-Recordable Document (NRD) = These types of documents must be signed originals (no photocopies) and be properly wet ink or online notarized by a Texas notary. You cannot mail or drop off non-recordable documents to us that were notarized by a notary from another state (non-Texas) or country. TEXAS NOTARIES ONLY!

■ Corporations Document (CD) = These types of documents do not need to be notarized but you cannot mail or drop off this type of document to us. You can only email us to start the Texas corporation apostille ordering process.

■ You can only choose ONE foreign (non-USA) country per document. The Texas Secretary of State will only issue anyone ONE apostille certificate on ONE document and for ONE foreign (non-USA) country. This means the Texas Secretary of State will not issue you multiple apostille certificates or multiple countries on one document.

■ We strongly recommend and urge you to scan or take a photo of any non-recordable documents (any notarized document) and email them to us before you mail or drop them off to us so we can verify they have been properly prepared and notarized. If you choose to ignore this step (take us up on our free non-recordable document email review) before you mail or drop off your documents to us and your documents do get rejected by the Texas Secretary of State because of errors you and/or the notary you hired made.

You will have to redo your documents (get them properly signed and notarized) and pay us our full apostille service fees a second time to attempt to apostille all your documents again with the Texas Secretary of State for a second time. We don’t want this to ever happen to you but we can’t help you avoid having your non-recordable documents (notarized) rejected by the Texas Secretary of State unless you email them to us to do a document review (you cannot drop off documents to us to review). All documents you drop off to us will always be filed with the Texas Secretary of State and either accepted or rejected by the state.

■ All Texas Secretary of State government document filing fees are included in our flat fee rush Texas apostille service pricing.

■ The three documents with asterisks* listed on the select documents drop-down menu (Certificate of Naturalization, Trademarks/Patents, and FBI Criminal Background Check) are classified as federal documents, and federal documents cannot be apostilled by the Texas Secretary of State. This is not the correct order form page to use for those types of documents. You must go to our federal apostille order page or FBI background check order page to place your federal apostille order.

■ Our Texas same day document filing services cutoff time is noon CST Monday-Friday. If we receive your documents by mail or drop off after 12pm CST your documents will not normally be submitted to the Texas Secretary of State until the following business day.

■ As of February 1, 2024, the Texas Secretary of State drastically changed their apostille filing turnaround time policies. Depending on how many total documents are submitted to them per day by any person or company your documents might not be issued an apostille certificate from the Texas Secretary of State until 24 hours (the next business day) after we SAME DAY file your documents with them. This could happen even if we receive your documents by mail or drop off by or before our 12pm CST filing deadline please be advised. 

If this were to happen on a drop off order we will instruct and notify you via email by 3:30 pm CST to go purchase a prepaid return FedEx or UPS shipping label. Then drop off the return shipping label to our office or email us the prepaid return label PDF so we can mail your documents back to you (or to wherever and whomever you want them sent to which is up to you) once the Texas Secretary of State issues your apostille certificate.

If you do not provide us with a prepaid return shipping label you’ll either have to stay overnight in Austin, TX, or travel back to our office the next business day afternoon. Please don’t return to our office for a second time until we confirm that the Texas Secretary of State has issued your apostille certificate and you’ve received an email from us stating that your apostilled documents are now ready to be picked up. In this scenario, if you dropped documents off to us on a Friday your documents would not be ready to be picked up until the following Monday afternoon.