Civil registry and criminal records
Birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates and Portuguese criminal record certificates are among the most common apostille files.
These documents are core Portugal Papers services, so we obtain a fresh record and move it directly into apostille.
Courts, notaries and public authorities
Portuguese court documents, notarial acts, ministry documents, municipal documents and parish-council documents sit within the public-document categories recognised by the apostille system.
Academic documents
Documents from Portuguese public educational institutions can be apostilled as public documents.
Private pre-school, primary and secondary documents first require DGEstE authentication. Private higher education documents first require authentication through IES, I.P., the successor to DGES.
Lawyer and solicitor certifications
Portuguese law also allows certain recognitions, certifications and authentications performed by lawyers and solicitors to enter the apostille route when the formal requirements are met.
Documents outside the apostille scope
The Hague Convention excludes documents executed by diplomatic or consular agents and administrative documents dealing directly with commercial or customs operations.
A private document also does not become apostillable just because someone wants to use it abroad. It first needs the correct Portuguese authentication path.
Send us the document
If you are looking at a Portuguese document and do not know whether it can be apostilled, send us a scan.
We identify the document and build the route instead of asking you to guess which authority comes first.