Apostille Cremation Certificates

If you’re looking for a Texas cremation certificate apostille near me look no further because we only need three things from you to complete the expedited Texas cremation certificate apostille services process.

First, mail or drop off to us an original Texas cremation certificate at our office that was issued from a Texas city or county government agency of where the cremation was done at.

If it’s a Texas city or county government issued Texas cremation certificate that you submit to us it cannot be a photocopy or a notarized copy and you cannot fax or email us a copy of a Texas cremation certificate to apostille.

The Texas Secretary of State will only accept and issue Texas apostille certificates on original Texas cremation certificates issued from a Texas city or county government entity that are physically presented to them not photocopies.

When we say an “original Texas cremation certificate” this means you have an original Texas cremation certificate that was issued at the time (year) of the persons death or a certified copy of a Texas cremation certificate that you can only order and obtain from the Texas city or county office of where the official Texas death record was first recorded at.

And yes, you can have the Texas county or city office who issued the original Texas cremation certificate mail us the Texas cremation certificate directly to rush apostille for you.

But only if you email us our Texas apostille services order form and email us a prepaid return FedEx or UPS shipping label before we receive the Texas cremation certificate in the mail from that Texas county or city office.

If the Texas city or county of where the cremation happened in doesn’t provide official government issued Texas cremation certificates your only other choice is to get a properly notarized Texas cremation certificate from the Texas funeral home or Texas crematory that did the actual cremation services in Texas.

Click on the big PDF icon below that says, “CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD” to instantly download a copy of the Texas cremation certificate certified copy affidavit that you print out, sign, and get notarized to apostille cremation certificates.

Certified Copy Affidavit

On this ________ day of ______________________ , 20____,
I _________________________________________ (document custodian’s name) swear and attest that the attached document is a true, correct, and unaltered copy of a cremation certificate, to which I am the documents custodian, named therein; and that I presented the original of the attached document (s) to the undersigned notary public as satisfactory evidence.

__________________________________________
(document custodian’s name)

State of Texas

County of ______________________

Sworn to and subscribed before me on the _______ day of _____________________________, 20____,
by _____________________________________ (print document custodian’s name).

___________________________________
(Texas notary public signature)

An owner or official from the Texas funeral home or Texas crematorium that did the cremation must sign their own in-house created Texas cremation certificate infront of a Texas notary public who will then notarize it so it can be accepted by the Texas Secretary of State to apostille. 

Do not mail or drop off to us a Texas cremation certificate to apostille if it was issued before 1980. Your Texas cremation certificate must be issued after 1980.

If not, you must order a new certified copy of a Texas cremation certificate from the Texas city or county of where the deceased person was cremated at because the Texas Secretary of State won’t be able to find that old of Texas death record in their state records database.

If your certified copy or original Texas cremation 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 death record in their state records database.

With that said we’ve successfully apostilled many Texas cremation certificates issued from the 1980’s and 1990’s that the Texas Secretary of State found so we’ll happily attempt to file your Texas cremation certificate that was issued during these years.

But please be aware if the Texas Secretary of State does reject your Texas cremation 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 cremation certificate copy and pay us our full Texas apostille service fee for a second time to reattempt to apostille your Texas cremation certificate for the second time.

The Texas cremation certificate cannot be issued from another state or foreign country and a certified copy affidavit signed by you cannot be notarized by another state or countries notary (you can only use a Texas notary public).

If a Texas cremation certificate was issued or notarized from another U.S state other than Texas you can only receive an apostille certification or authentication certification on a U.S cremation certificate or any other type of recordable document from the state in which the document originated and was issued from.

For example, if a person was cremated in the State of California but they legally resided in Texas you can only obtain an apostille certificate or authentication certificate on a California cremation certificate from the California Secretary of State. The exact same scenario applies to all recordable legal documents and the 50 U.S states.

Apostille Texas only apostilles cremation 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 these two other steps even if we don’t obtain the state level authentication for you from a non-Texas state.

The second step is to rush file your cremation certificate at the United States Department of State (USDOS) office in Washington D.C but this step can only be done after you have 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 cremation 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 a U.S cremation certificate.

Third, you will need to complete, sign, and mail or drop off at our office our rush Texas apostille service order form that can be instantly accessed by clicking on the blue Texas apostille services order button below.

We cannot accept or process your Texas cremation certificate apostille request by mail or drop off until we receive a properly completed Texas apostille service order form from you.

If you will be dropping your Texas cremation 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 cremation 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 cremation 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 apostille certificates is the Texas Secretary of State office which is where we will rush file your Texas cremation certificate at on your behalf.

We must receive your Texas cremation certificate by mail or dropped off at our office by noon CST Monday-Friday (excluding all federal and state holidays) to be able to provide you with same day Texas apostille services. If we receive your Texas cremation 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 services order forms available at our front desk receptionist area.

So if you choose to drop your Texas certificate of cremation off at our office please make sure to print out and bring this Texas apostille service order form in with you or alternatively you can email us the completed Texas apostille order form ahead of time.