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 can answer questions about apostille requirements, document preparation, notarization, authentication, embassy legalization, processing, and international document requirements. If you are not sure what your document needs or where it should be processed, contact Apostille Texas and we’ll help you figure out the next steps.
We help customers with Texas apostille services, U.S. Department of State apostille and authentication services, and embassy and consulate document legalization. We handle personal, business, commercial, and corporate documents for international use. Our goal is to make the process easier to understand from the time you prepare your documents until they are ready to use in another country.
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Expedited Texas Apostille Services
Apostille Texas provides fast apostille, document authentication, and embassy legalization services for individuals, small businesses, corporations, and organizations throughout the United States and worldwide.
Whether you need a Texas document apostilled, a federal document authenticated or apostilled, or documents legalized for use in another country, we’ll help you find the correct process and get your documents moving.
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, TX. We must receive your documents by mail or drop-off before our noon CST deadline.
Apostille Texas is based in Austin, Texas. This allows us to hand-file eligible documents with the Texas Secretary of State the same business day instead of sending your documents through an out-of-city or out-of-state middleman.
Whether you’re in Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, Fort Worth, elsewhere in Texas, anywhere in the U.S., or around the world, you can send your documents directly to us for expedited Texas apostille services.
Need a federal apostille or authentication certificate fast? Our U.S. Department of State Apostille Services handle eligible federal documents through the U.S. Department of State Office of Authentications in Washington, D.C. We hand-submit your documents, but the U.S. Department of State controls the processing turnaround time. Federal apostille and authentication certificates are currently taking about 7–9 business days after submission.
Does your document need additional legalization for a non-Hague Convention country? Our Embassy Legalization Services include hand-filing documents with foreign embassies and consulates in Washington, D.C. The processing times depend on the country and diplomatic mission. Most embassies take about 5–10 business days after submission to issue legalizations and attestations on documents.
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 will pay less for each additional document.
For our Texas apostille services, the first eligible document is $95, including all required Texas Secretary of State filing fees. Each additional eligible document submitted at the same time is only $75, including all required Texas state filing fees.
We believe you should know the price before you place an order. That’s why we publish our Texas apostille services pricing instead of making you call or email us just to get a price quote.
Our website also provides upfront pricing, processing information, and turnaround times for Texas Secretary of State apostilles, U.S. Department of State federal apostilles and authentications, and embassy and consulate legalization services. You can find this information on our service pages and order forms.
No annoying sales games, gimmicks, or pitches. No hiding our prices, which forces you to call or email us. Just upfront, simple pricing, processing information, and expedited apostille and legalization services.
Worldwide Apostille & Legalization Services
Apostille Texas provides worldwide apostille, authentication, and document legalization services for personal, business, commercial, and corporate documents used internationally. Whether you live in Texas, elsewhere in the United States, or another country, you can mail eligible U.S. documents to us for rush processing and international return delivery.
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, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, 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 other 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 country where it will be used, we can help with the correct Texas apostille, federal apostille, or authentication, or embassy and consulate legalization process.
Personalized Texas Apostille Services
With Apostille Texas, you choose how you want your Texas apostille services handled. We offer flexible processing, shipping, return delivery, and payment options for customers in Texas, the United States, and worldwide,
You choose how to send your documents to us. Use the shipping carrier and service that works 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, or authentication, or embassy-legalized documents.
You choose the processing speed. Depending on the document and government agency, select the available turnaround time that works best for your Texas, federal, or international documents.
You choose where your completed documents go. We can return your apostilled, authenticated, or legalized documents to addresses throughout the United States and 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, cookie-cutter options. 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 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 middleman that accepts your original documents and then sends your Texas apostille work to unrelated third-party courier companies. Our experienced legal services staff handles eligible Texas documents through the Texas Secretary of State in Austin.
Why does that matter? Price, processing time, accountability, and knowing who is handling your documents.
Some national apostille companies charge much more and list longer processing times. Don’t just take our word for it. Visit our Apostille Service Competitors Comparison to see our research comparing the published prices and processing times of 13 other apostille companies with Apostille Texas.
We even provide links to the companies’ websites so you can check the information for yourself.
It’s a completely 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. 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 that need 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.
Scan or take clear photos of your documents or identification copies and email them to us. Our experienced staff will review them for any possible problems with the documents, notarizations, signatures, or certifications that could cause a rejection.
Our free apostille document review is available by email and must be completed before you place your order. Please do not mail your original documents to us for a free review.
If you mail documents to Apostille Texas with a completed order form, we will consider them submitted for processing. We will process them based on the services and authorization selected on your order form.
During normal business hours, we typically review emailed scans or photos within a few hours. If we find a possible problem or need more information about a government requirement, we’ll explain what needs to be corrected or verified before you mail or drop off your original documents.
When needed, we may also contact the proper government agency, foreign embassy, or consulate to confirm document requirements.
Our experience working with the Texas Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State, and foreign embassies and consulates helps us spot possible problems before you spend time and money submitting documents that may not be ready.
Once your free document review is complete, we’ll explain what to do next before sending your documents to Apostille Texas for expedited processing.
Our customer service doesn’t end when your documents are processed.
As an extra service, we’ll take a photo of your completed Texas apostille, federal apostille, or authentication certificate, or embassy-legalized documents. We’ll email the photo to you before shipping your completed documents back with the prepaid return shipping label or envelope you provide.
That way, you’ll know Apostille Texas has completed the requested processing of your important legal documents before the originals are even back in your hands.
We call this extra put-your-mind-at-ease service P.O.D. – Proof of Documentation.
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Texas Apostille Documents
Apostille Texas provides expedited Texas apostille services for eligible documents that originate in the State of Texas. Depending on the document, you may need an original or certified copy of a Texas public record. Other documents may need to be properly notarized by a Texas notary public before we rush-submit them to the Texas Secretary of State Authentications Unit in Austin.
Texas documents generally fall into two main categories: recordable documents and non-recordable documents. It is important to know the difference because each type has different requirements before the Texas Secretary of State can issue an apostille certificate.
Texas Recordable Documents
For Apostille
Recordable documents are official public records issued or certified by a Texas government office, court, county clerk, registrar, or other 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 correct Texas authority. A photocopy or Texas-notarized copy of a recordable public document cannot replace 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 documents submitted for an apostille must have been issued within the past five years.
If the Texas Secretary of State cannot find or verify the public official who signed the document, the document may be rejected. If that happens, you may need to order a newly issued certified copy before the State of Texas can issue an apostille.
However, in our 17 years of providing expedited Texas apostille services, we have never had a Texas recordable document issued after the year 2000 rejected by the State of Texas because the signing public official could not be verified.
Past acceptance does not guarantee that an older document will be accepted by the Texas Secretary of State.
Texas Non-Recordable
Documents For Apostille
Non-recordable documents are private, personal, educational, 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.
Examples include high school and college diplomas, 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 and 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 other privately issued documents.
Texas Corporations Documents
For Apostille
Texas Corporations Section documents do not need to be notarized, 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. The corporate document you need apostilled must also already be on file with the Texas Secretary of State Corporations Division.
After you place your online order with us, we request newly certified copies of your existing corporate documents from the Texas Secretary of State Corporations Division. The state then issues the new certified copies and attaches a Texas apostille certificate to each document.
The Texas Secretary of State will issue only one apostille certificate per document for one foreign country. All required Texas government corporate document filing fees are included in our flat-rate 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.
Texas Corporations Section documents can include a Texas Certificate of Formation, Certificate of Fact, Certificate of Fact – Assumed Name, Certificate of Fact – Conversion, Certificate of Fact – Name Change, Certificate of Fact – No Record, Certificate of Fact – Registered Agent/Office, Certificate of Fact – Merger, Certificate of Fact – Management, Certificate of Fact – Status & Registered Agent, Articles of Conversion, Articles of Incorporation, Articles of Organization, Authorization of Agent, Assumed Name Certificate Form 503, Certificate of Amendment, Certificate of Conversion, Certificate of Correction Form 403, Certificate of Incorporation, Certificate of Limited Partnership, Certificate of Merger, Certificate of Organization, Certificate of Reinstatement, Certificate of Termination, Certificate of Withdrawal, and other official Texas Corporations Section records.
Instead of trying to figure out Texas apostille requirements yourself, visit our Apostille Documents directory. Find your specific document to see its apostille requirements, processing information, pricing, and ordering instructions.
