Texas Secretary of State
Apostille & Authentication
- Same-day Texas apostille services.
- Rush filing 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. Department of State in Washington, D.C.
- Live phone and email support.
- Federal apostille and authentication certificates for international use.
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Embassies & Consulates
Document Legalizations
- Rush embassy legalization services.
- Document legalization services for non-Hague member countries.
- Live phone and email support.
- International document legalization for personal and business documents.
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Apostille Texas Customer Service & Support
Apostille Texas provides email customer support seven days a week to answer questions about apostille requirements, document preparation, notarization, authentication, embassy legalization, processing procedures, and international document requirements. If you are unsure what your document needs or where to process it, contact Apostille Texas and we’ll help you determine the appropriate next steps.
We assist customers with Texas apostille services, U.S. Department of State authentication and apostille services, and embassy and consulate document legalization for personal, business, commercial, and corporate documents being used internationally. Our goal is to make a complicated document certification process easier to understand from the time you prepare your documents until they’re ready for international use.
Need to decipher unfamiliar terminology? Visit our Apostille Glossary for plain-English explanations of apostille, authentication, notarization, attestation, legalization, and international document terms.
Have a specific question? Our Apostille FAQ includes hundreds of answers covering Texas apostilles, federal apostilles and authentications, notarization, shipping, embassy and consulate legalization, document requirements, processing times, and other common apostille questions.
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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 determine 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 at the Texas Secretary of State Authentications Unit, located in Austin, Texas, when we receive your documents at our office by mail or drop-off by our noon CST deadline.
Apostille Texas is based in Austin, Texas, allowing us to hand-file eligible documents directly with the Texas Secretary of State the same business day rather than having you send your documents to an out-of-state or out-of-city middleman.
Whether you’re located in Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, Fort Worth, anywhere else in Texas, elsewhere in the U.S., or anywhere in the world, you can mail or drop off your documents directly with 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. After we hand-submit your federal documents, processing times are controlled by the U.S. Department of State, which is currently taking approximately 7–9 business days to issue federal apostille and authentication certificates.
If your documents are destined for a non-Hague Convention member country that requires additional legalization, our Embassy Legalization Services include hand-filing eligible documents with foreign embassies and consulates in Washington, D.C. Embassy and consulate processing times vary greatly by country and diplomatic mission, ranging from approximately 1–3 weeks after submission.
Expedited Texas Apostille Services Pricing
Apostille Texas offers straightforward, no-bull, affordable pricing for Texas apostille services, federal apostille and authentication services, and embassy legalization services. The more documents you submit for processing at the same time, the lower your cost per additional document is.
For our Texas Apostille Services, the first eligible document is $95, including all required Texas Secretary of State government filing fees. Each additional eligible document submitted for Texas apostille processing at the same time is only $75, including all required Texas state filing fees. That means customers with multiple documents can save substantially compared with paying the full first-document price for every Texas apostille certificate needed.
We believe you should know what Texas apostille services cost before you place an order with us. That’s why we clearly publish our Texas apostille services pricing instead of requiring you to call or email us to get a simple apostille service price quote.
Our website provides upfront pricing and turnaround-time information for Texas Secretary of State apostilles, U.S. Department of State federal apostilles and authentications, and embassy and consulate legalization services. You’ll also find applicable pricing, processing information, and turnaround times directly on our apostille services instruction pages and order forms.
No annoying sales games, gimmicks, or pitches. No hiding our prices to force you to call or email us. Just straightforward Texas apostille services pricing, processing information, and expedited services.
Worldwide Apostille & Legalization Services
Apostille Texas provides worldwide apostille, authentication, and document legalization services for personal, business, commercial, and corporate documents that will be used and submitted internationally. Whether you currently live in Texas, elsewhere in the United States, or in another country, you can mail your eligible U.S. documents to us for rush apostille processing and international return delivery.
We provide expedited apostille and legalization assistance for documents that will be 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, India, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
You also don’t need to live in Austin, Texas, to use our Texas apostille services. Customers in Dallas, Fort Worth, 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 U.S. customers outside Texas can use our apostille services without traveling to Austin, Texas, or Washington, D.C. Depending on the document and destination country, we can assist with the appropriate 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, throughout the United States, and around the world.
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 document processing speed. Depending on the type of document and government agency involved, select the available turnaround time that best fits your needs for Texas, federal, or international document processing.
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 service companies that advertise document processing in all 50 U.S. states, Apostille Texas specializes in Texas Apostille Services. We focus on the state where our company is based and where the Texas Secretary of State Authentications Unit is located: Austin, Texas.
We don’t operate as a national middleman that accepts your original documents and then routinely outsources Texas apostille processing to unrelated third-party courier companies. Our experienced legal services staff handles your 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 substantially more while advertising considerably longer turnaround times. Don’t just take our word for it. Visit our Apostille Service Competitors Comparison to see our research comparing the published prices and turnaround times of 13 other apostille service 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 is criminal-background-checked and specializes in processing eligible Texas documents. We don’t claim to provide state-level apostille processing for the other 49 states. Expedited Texas apostille services are our specialty.
For documents that require processing 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 consular 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 with us.
Simply scan or take clear photos of your documents or identification copies and email them to us. Our experienced staff will diligently review them and let you know whether we see any potential problems that could cause your documents, notarizations, signatures, or certifications to be rejected during the apostille, authentication, or legalization process.
Our free apostille document review is available by email and must be completed before you place your order with us. 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 the documents submitted for processing and proceed according to the services and authorization selected on your order form.
During our normal business hours, we typically review emailed document scans or photos within a few hours. If we identify a potential problem or need clarification about a government filing requirement, we’ll explain what needs to be corrected or verified before you mail or drop off your original documents to us.
When necessary, we may also contact the appropriate government agency or foreign embassy or consulate for clarification about document requirements.
Our experience working with the Texas Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State, and foreign embassies and consulates can help us identify potential document problems before you spend time and money submitting documents that may not be ready for processing.
Once your free document review is complete, we’ll provide instructions explaining what you need to do next before sending your documents to Apostille Texas for expedited processing.
P.O.D – Proof of Documentation
Our customer service doesn’t end when your documents are processed.
As an additional service, we’ll take a photo of your completed Texas apostille, federal apostille, or authentication certificate, or embassy-legalized documents and email it to you before your completed documents are shipped back using the prepaid return shipping label or envelope you provide.
That way, you’ll know that 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.
Texas Apostille Documents
Apostille Texas provides expedited Texas apostille services for eligible documents that originated in the State of Texas. Depending on the type of document you have, it may need to be an original or certified copy of a Texas public record, or a document properly notarized by a Texas notary public before it can be rush-submitted by us to the Texas Secretary of State Authentications Unit in Austin, Texas.
Texas documents generally fall into two main categories: recordable documents and non-recordable documents. Understanding the difference is important because each category has different legal requirements before a Texas apostille certificate can be issued by the Texas Secretary of State.
Texas Recordable Documents
Recordable documents are official public records issued or certified by an authorized Texas government office, court, county clerk, registrar, or other governmental entity.
Examples include Texas birth certificates, death certificates, marriage certificates, marriage licenses, divorce decrees, divorce certificates, Texas court records, judgments, TXDPS-issued criminal history records, TXDPS-issued 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. Photocopies and Texas-notarized copies of recordable public documents cannot be substituted for the required original or certified public record.
The 5-Year Texas Apostille Document Rule
The Texas Secretary of State states on its official website that originals and certified copies submitted for an apostille must have been issued within the past five years.
If the public official who signed the document cannot be found or verified by the Texas Secretary of State, the document will be rejected, and you will need to order a newly issued certified copy before the State of Texas will issue an apostille on it.
In our 17 years of providing Texas apostille services, we have never had a Texas recordable document issued after the year 2000 rejected because the signing public official could not be verified.
Please note, however, that past document acceptance does not guarantee that an older document will be 100% accepted by the Texas Secretary of State.
Texas Non-Recordable Documents
Non-recordable documents are private, personal, educational, professional, or business documents that are not issued as certified public records by a Texas government recording authority. These documents 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 and school records, powers of attorney, affidavits, employment documents, identification copies (passports, visas, PAN cards, and driver’s licenses), business agreements, utility bills, bank statements, phone bills, corporate bylaws, meetings of minutes, board resolutions, contracts, medical records, translations, single status affidavits, financial documents, travel consent letters, Social Security Administration (SSA) benefit letters, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefit letters, professional credentials, and many other privately issued documents.
Texas Corporations Section Documents
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 unique Texas Secretary of State file number that was issued to you, and the corporate document you need apostilled must 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, which issues the certified copies and attaches a Texas apostille certificate to each document.
The Texas Secretary of State will only issue one apostille certificate per document for one foreign country, and 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.
Corporations section documents can include a Texas Certificate of Formation, Certificate of Fact, Certificate of Existence, 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 Organization, Certification of Origin, Texas Franchise Tax Public Information Report (PIR) and other official Texas corporation sections corporate records.
Instead of trying to determine Texas apostille requirements yourself, please visit our Apostille Documents directory to find your specific document and see its apostille requirements, processing information, pricing, and ordering instructions.
