How To Apostille
Texas Birth Certificates
Texas Apostille Birth Certificate Long Form
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Texas Apostille Birth Certificate Short Form
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We only need three things from you to complete the expedited Texas apostille birth certificate service process.
First, mail us or drop off your original Texas birth certificate at our office. The Texas birth certificate you submit to us cannot be a photocopy or a notarized copy and you cannot fax or email us a copy of your original Texas birth certificate to apostille.
The Texas Secretary of State will only accept and issue apostille certificates on original Texas birth certificates that are physically presented to them not photocopies.
When we say an “original Texas birth certificate” this means you have an original Texas birth certificate that was issued at the time (year) of your birth or a raised seal certified copy of your Texas birth certificate that you can only order and obtain from either Texas Vital Statistics (also called Texas Vital Records) or from the Texas county clerk’s office of where the official birth record was first recorded at.
And yes, you can have Texas Vital Statistics or the Texas county office who issued the original Texas birth certificate mail us your Texas birth certificate certified copy directly to rush apostille for you.
But only if you email us our Texas apostille order form and email us a prepaid return FedEx or UPS shipping label before we receive your Texas birth certificate in the mail from the Texas county office who issued the Texas birth certificate or from Texas Vital Records.
Do not mail us or drop off to us a Texas birth certificate to apostille if it was issued before 1980. Your Texas birth certificate must be issued after 1980.
If it’s older then 1980 you will need to order a new certified copy of your Texas birth certificate from Texas Vital Records or from the Texas county of where you were born (ordering at the county level is by far the fastest way and what we recommend you do) because the Texas Secretary of State won’t be able to find that old of birth record in their Texas public records database.
If your Texas birth certificate certified copy or original Texas birth certificate was issued between 1980-1999 you have roughly a 50/50 chance that it will be rejected by the Texas Secretary of State because they won’t be able to find that old of Texas birth record in their public records database.
With that said we have successfully apostilled many Texas birth certificates that were issued from the 1980’s and 1990’s that the Texas Secretary of State found so we’ll happily attempt to file and apostille your Texas birth certificate that was issued during these years.
But please be aware if the Texas Secretary of State does reject your Texas birth certificate we will mail you the original rejection letter that the Texas Secretary of State issues on all rejected documents. Then you will have to order a new certified Texas birth certificate copy and pay us our full apostille service fee a second time to reattempt to apostille your Texas birth certificate for the second time.
Your birth certificate cannot be issued from another state or foreign country and it can only be issued from the State of Texas.
If your birth certificate was issued from another U.S state other than Texas you can only receive an apostille certification or authentication certification on a U.S birth certificate or any other type of recordable document from the state in which the document originated and was issued from.
For example, if you were legally born in the State of California but you now reside in the State of Texas you can only obtain an apostille certificate on your California birth certificate from the California Secretary of State’s office. The exact same scenario applies to all recordable legal documents in the fifty U.S states.
Apostille Texas only apostilles Texas birth certificates at the state government level for the State of Texas but if the country you’re sending your documents to is not a member nation of The 1961 Hague Convention you will need to go through two more legal document filing steps. We can assist you with going through these two additional steps even if we don’t obtain the state level authentication certificate for you from a non-Texas state.
The second step is to rush file your birth certificate at the United States Department of State (USDOS) office in Washington D.C but this step can only be done after you’ve been issued a state level authentication certificate by one of the fifty state secretary of state offices in the United States.
The third step is to rush file your birth certificate with the foreign country embassy of where your documents are being submitted to in Washington D.C. This final document legalization step can only be done after you have been issued both a state and federal authentication certification on your U.S birth certificate.
Second, email, mail, or drop off at our office a prepaid FedEx or UPS return shipping label (we do not accept air waybills) that you can create and purchase online at FedEx.com or UPS.com from anywhere in the world without needing to create or have an existing account set up with them. You can also visit any UPS Store or FedEx Office location to purchase a prepaid shipping label as well.
DO NOT use the United States Postal Service (USPS) because they lose things constantly (potentially your Texas birth certificate) and are completely unreliable and slow.
The reason we require a prepaid return shipping label is so we can mail your Texas birth certificate apostille back to you or to wherever and whomever in the world that you want it shipped to.
On the prepaid return FedEx or UPS shipping label that you must provide us please list the senders (from) mailing address as your name/address or any U.S address because you cannot list our company name or address as the from/sender for liability reasons. Then for the receiver’s address (to) just list the name/address of where and who you want your Texas birth certificate apostille mailed back to.
Click on the below links for easy step-by-step screenshot directions on how to create a prepaid return FedEx or UPS shipping label online in only a few minutes.
If you want your Texas birth certificate apostille shipped back to you or to someone else internationally (USA to another foreign country) please also provide us with a customs invoice (also called a commercial invoice.). See the two links below to download and sign the custom prefilled out for you templates that shipping companies (FedEx, UPS) will normally require you to include whenever you ship documents internationally to certain countries.
If you or someone on your behalf will be returning to our office to pick up your Texas birth certificate apostille you of course won’t need to provide us with a prepaid return shipping label.
For the fastest possible return time, we can hand deliver your Texas birth certificate apostille right to your home, office, business or hotel anywhere in Texas the very same day that we apostilled it for an additional courier fee.
The courier cost will depend on what city and zip code in Texas you need us to travel to. This is for situations where you don’t have the time to travel back to our office to pick up your Texas birth certificate apostille or you don’t it mailed anywhere for some reason.
Third, you will need to download, sign, and email, mail, or drop off at our office our rush Texas apostille service order form that can be instantly downloaded by clicking on the blue Texas apostille order button below.
We cannot accept or process your Texas birth certificate apostille request by mail, email, or drop off until we receive a properly completed Texas apostille order form from you.
If you will be dropping your Texas birth certificate off at our office in person you must bring this completed Texas apostille services order form in with you along with any other documents that you want us to rush apostille for you.
When you arrive at our office walk up to our front lobby receptionist desk area and tell them that you have a Texas birth certificate to dropoff for Apostille Texas. Detailed directions and pictures of our office and office building are on our contact us page as well for you to view.
Please also understand your Texas birth certificate will not and cannot be apostilled onsite at our office so this isn’t walk-in service. The only legal and government entity in Texas that can issue Texas apostille certificates is the Texas Secretary of State office which is where we will rush file your Texas birth certificate at on your behalf.
We must receive your Texas birth certificate by mail or dropped off at our office by noon CST Monday-Friday (excluding all official federal and state holidays) to be able to provide you with same day Texas apostille services. If we receive your Texas birth certificate after that cutoff time don’t worry we’ll simply attempt to file it on the next business day.
Lastly, we do not have these Texas apostille order forms available at our front desk receptionist area.
So if you choose to drop your Texas birth certificate off at our office please make sure to print out and bring this Texas apostille order form in with you or alternatively you can email us the completed Texas apostille order form ahead of time.
Texas Apostille
Services Pricing
All Texas Secretary of State government filing fees are included in the $95 price.
Money back guarantee if we don’t attempt to file your Texas birth certificate in the stated time.
Your Texas birth certificate couriered to any shipping center (return shipping costs not included).
Texas birth certificate filing status updates by email or text.
We’re based in Austin, TX, so no middleman for you to go through.
Phone and email support seven days a week.
Additional TXSOS documents filed at the same time only $75 each.
Same Business Day
Apostille Service
All Texas Secretary of State government filing fees are included in the $95 price.
Money back guarantee if we don’t attempt to file your documents in the stated time.
Your documents couriered to any shipping center (return shipping costs not included).
Document filing status updates by email or text.
We’re based in Austin, TX, so no middleman for you to go through.
Phone and email support seven days a week.
Additional documents filed at the same time only $75 each.
