Madonna could have used Apostilla.com, a leading online service to legalize documents for international use

The next time Madonna adopts a child from overseas, she may first want to click on www.apostilla.comApostilla.com is a leading online service that people can use to legalize and certify government-issued and other legal documents in other countries.”The Internet is making the world a smaller place every day, but people who want to take care of business in that smaller world — whether it’s personal or corporate business — must still deal with international borders and the very real obstacles they can pose,” said Luis Massieu, director of the New York City-based service.Apostilla.com offers two different document legalization services, Apostille and Embassy legalization. The company has served more than 6,000 customers in more than five years in business.Apostille is a form of document legalization agreed upon by nations subject to The Hague Convention, signed by the United States and 88 other nations in 1961. Among other things, The Hague Convention nations agreed to do away with cumbersome requirements needed to recognize legal documents from the member nations.Embassy legalization in the process by which U.S. documents are legalized for use in nations not covered by the Hague Convention. Because Apostilla.com offers both services, that means the Web service covers all your international document legalization needs.Birth, adoption, marriage, death certificates and divorce decrees are only some of the documents covered. High school diplomas, college degrees and educational transcripts can also be certified and legalized for international use. Powers of attorney, corporate documents, deeds, wills, agreements and all manner of identification documents — including passports — can be legalized for use in other countries. Even private bills of sale and other documents used to establish ownership of property, including deeds, can be legalized through Apostilla.com.”People that want to marry someone in a different country may need their birth certificate apostilled or legalized through an embassy,” Massieu said. “Let’s say a woman from Texas falls in love with a man in Germany while she’s studying abroad and the couple wants to marry in Germany. The German authorities require her birth certificate to be apostilled.”America is a melting pot, and some folks desire to be granted secondary citizenship in their ancestors’ native land. “Someone born in New York can become an Italian citizen if he can present birth, marriage and death certificates from his Italian ancestors,” Massieu said.And, Madonna, has no doubt learned that American who want to adopt children from abroad must often apostille or otherwise legalize their identity and other documents. Malawi, the native country of Madonna’s son, is one of 88 foreign nations covered by The Hague Convention.”Perhaps next time, Madonna will click first on Apostilla.com and save herself some time and money,” Massieu quipped.”Critical documents like birth and marriage certificates, recommendation letters — the whole packet is often called the adoption dossier — need to be apostilled to be valid in other countries,” Massieu said.”We have over five years experience preparing and making absolutely sure all the required documents are apostilled,” Massieu said. “I’m sure our service would have been very helpful to Madonna, and I know there are countless others who need our help.”The reasons for getting documents legalized for use in other countries are limited only by those who want to conduct personal or corporate business anywhere in the world. Doing it is easy using Apostilla.com’s four-step process._Fill out the online order form at Apostilla.com._An Apostilla.com representative will contact you by phone and e-mail the SAME day._You submit the document or, in some instances, a copy by mail or courier to Apostille.com_Apostilla.com will FedEx the documents, legalized through apostille or an embassy, within 10 days.Apostilla.com charges $200 for an apostille legalization and $500 for embassy legalization. An additional $100 fee applies to documents that require notarization by a county clerk before they can be legalized through apostille. The fees INCLUDE all government and national or international FedEx fees.

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Madonna could have used Apostilla.com, a leading online service to legalize documents for international use

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