How To Apostille Texas
Single Status Affidavit Letters
If you’re looking for a single status affidavit apostille near me look no further because we only need three things from you to complete the expedited apostille single status affidavit form letter process.
How you have to prepare and notarize a single status affidavit form letter for us to rush Texas apostille it is the exact same process for any type of single status affidavit letter that you may have and need apostilled for a foreign country.
This is only a partial list of the types of single status affidavit letters that are the exact same but are called by different legal document names by various foreign countries that we can fast apostille such as a Certificate of No Record of Marriage, Certificate of Freedom to Marry, Affidavit of Marriageability, Affidavit of Single Status, Certificate of Singleness, Single Letter, Affidavit of Marital Status, Single Status Letter, Marital Status Affidavit, Certificate of Impediment, Statement of Freedom to Marry, Affidavit of Bachelorhood, Single Status Statutory Declaration, Single Status Form, Certificate of Legal Capacity to Contract Marriage, Single Status Certificate, Free-To-Marry Statement and Single Status Affidavit Letter Of No Record.
First, mail us or drop off your original notarized affidavit of single status letter at our office. The properly notarized single status affidavit form that you submit to us cannot be a photocopy and you cannot fax or email us a copy of your single status affidavit form letter to rush Texas apostille.
The Texas Secretary of State office will only accept and issue Texas apostille certificates on original single status affidavit letters that are physically presented to them not photocopies.
If you have an original single status search letter that can only be issued and signed/stamped by a Texas county clerk’s office (please note only a few of the largest Texas counties offer this type of single status letter) then that original Texas county letter does not need to be notarized because it’s considered a Texas recordable document by the Secretary of State of Texas.
Or if you ordered from Texas Vital Statistics/Texas Vital Records a Texas marriage verification letter or a Texas divorce verification letter those two state-issued legal documents can sometimes act like state verified single status affidavit certificates and these verification letters don’t need to be notarized because they are considered by the Texas Secretary of State to be a recordable document.
The Texas Secretary of State will reject any non-recordable document (such as single status affidavit letters) if the notarization on the non-recordable document is not a physically wet ink signed and stamped by a Texas notary public or signed and stamped electronically by a licensed Texas e-notary, virtual notary, remote notary, or online notary services company.
The affiant’s signature (the person or people who will sign the single status affidavit form letter in front of a Texas notary public) on the affidavit of single status letter must be the original. Meaning the signatures on the single status affidavit form that the Texas notary public witnesses cannot be a copied or a automated autopen type signature.
The Secretary of State in Texas will reject your single status affidavit letter if original signatures were not used on it.
A Texas authentications unit staffer will use a magnifying glass and/or a smudge test to verify that all single status affidavit letter documents presented to them properly used original wet ink signatures. So don’t think you can sneak this past them.
The below Texas Secretary of State approved Texas notary jurat and Texas notary acknowledgment verbiage (only choose one notary verbiage set to place on your single status affidavit letters) must be written on every non-recordable document that you want to receive a Texas apostille certificate on.
Either you, an attorney, or a Texas notary public can copy/paste this below Texas notary jurat or Texas notary acknowledgment verbiage onto a blank Microsoft Word document (DO NOT print this whole webpage out as is and get it notarized) and attach it to your affidavit of single status form or simply handwrite (print NOT cursive) this state-required Texas notary jurat (first one) or Texas notary acknowledgment (second one) verbiage onto the backside of your single status affidavit letter.
Click on the big PDF icons below that say, “CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD” to instantly download a copy of the Texas notary jurat or Texas notary acknowledgment verbiage that you can print out, sign, and put on or attach to your affidavit of single status letter to receive a Texas apostille certification.
Affidavit of Single Status
Date: ____________________
I _______________________________________________________, (print affiants full legal name)
residing at:
__________________________________________________________________________________________
(street) (city) (state) (postal code)
personally appeared before the undersigned Texas notary public, and under oath or affirmation make the following statements.
I was born on: __________________ at: __________________________________________________
(date) (city, state, and country)
I am a citizen of: __________________________________________________
(country)
My passport number is: __________________________________________
I am currently single, have never been married, (or I was divorced/widowed
on _____________________ and have never been remarried since that date).
(date)
________________________________________________
(Signature of Affiant) date
State of Texas
County of ____________________
Signed and sworn to (or affirmed) before me on _________________
date
by ___________________________________ (print affidavit signers name) who proved to me on a basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person who appeared before me.
__________________________________
(Texas notary public signature)
The above Texas notary jurat and Texas notary acknowledgment verbiage must be written in all English on your single status affidavit certificate. The actual affidavit of single status letter content can be in any non-English language (say you got it translated) but the entire Texas notary acknowledgment or Texas notary jurat text cannot be in a different or translated language other than English.
If the Texas notary jurat or Texas notary acknowledgment verbiage that is used on your affidavit of single status letter is not 100% in English your single status affidavit form will be rejected by the Secretary of State of Texas.
Second 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 return shipping label as well.
DO NOT use the United States Postal Service (USPS) because they lose things constantly
(potentially your single status affidavit letter) and are completely unreliable and slow.
The reason we require a prepaid return shipping label is so we can mail your affidavit of single status 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 affidavit of single status apostille mailed back to.
Click on the below links for easy step-by-step screenshot directions on how to create a prepaid FedEx or UPS shipping label online in only a few minutes.
If it’s an international shipment (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 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 single status affidavit apostille you of course won’t need to provide us with a prepaid return shipping label.
For the fastest possible turnaround time, we can hand deliver your apostille single status affidavit letter right to your home, office, business or hotel 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 affidavit of single status apostille or you don’t want it mailed anywhere.
Third, you will need to download, sign, and 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 services order button below.
We cannot accept or process your single status affidavit 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 affidavit of single status letter 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 Texas 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 single status affidavit letter 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 single status affidavit form will not and cannot be apostilled onsite at our office so this isn’t apostille walk-in service.
The only legal and government entity in Texas or in the world that can issue Texas apostille certificates is the Texas Secretary of State which is where we will rush file your single status affidavit letter at on your behalf.
We must receive your affidavit of single status letter 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 single status affidavit certificate after that cutoff time don’t worry we’ll simply attempt to file it with the state 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 off your single status affidavit letter at our office please make sure to print out and bring this Texas apostille services order form in with you.
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 single status affidavit letter in the stated time.
Your single status affidavit apostille couriered to any shipping center (return shipping costs not included).
Single status certificate apostille filing status updates by email or text.
We’re based in Austin, TX, so no Texas apostille services 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 single status affidavit letter in the stated time.
Your single status affidavit apostille couriered to any shipping center (return shipping costs not included).
Single status affidavit form apostille filing status updates by email or text.
We’re based in Austin, TX, so no Texas apostille services 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.
