- Find your state’s apostille office and its real process1 hour 30 min
Your state — not the federal government — authenticates its own documents. Search for “apostille” plus your state’s name, or “[State] Secretary of State authentication”; the office is usually the Secretary of State or a designated authentication division, and the official site ends in .gov.
Capture, on one page:
- Office name and division, street address, and service window hours
- Current per-document fee and accepted payment methods
- Stated processing time, and whether walk-ins are accepted
- Exactly how documents must be signed and notarized before submission, plus any cover form
- How to track a submission once it is in
If the site leaves anything unclear, call the office, ask for the authentication division, and write down who answered and what they said.
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