Hague Apostille Convention

January 22, 2024

The Allahabad High Court held that the Union Government is bound by the Convention of (5 October 1961 )Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents (Apostille Convention) as India is a signatory to the same.
The Court held that the government cannot disbelieve Apostille documents issued by countries signatory to the Apostille Convention.
The Apostille Convention is intended to simplify the procedure through which a document, issued in one of the contracting states, can be certified for legal purposes in the other contracting states of the Convention.
- These public documents include certificates of birth, marriage, and death, and educational documents among others.
A certification under the Convention is called an apostille or Hague apostille.
Non-member countries of convention require extra certification from the State of origin for document acceptance.