When DGEstE is required
The Portuguese apostille authority requires documents issued by private pre-school, primary and secondary education establishments to be authenticated by the Direção-Geral dos Estabelecimentos Escolares before apostille.
Typical documents
The route covers private-school certificates, completion records, grade records and other education documents issued below higher-education level.
What Portugal Papers handles
We identify the document, prepare the DGEstE step, arrange the apostille and add certified translation or courier.
If you still need the school to issue the underlying record, we coordinate the document request as part of the same case.
Public schools follow a different route
Documents issued by Portuguese public educational establishments are public documents for apostille purposes.
The DGEstE pre-authentication described here is the special route for private pre-school, basic and secondary education documents.
International use
School records are commonly prepared for enrolment abroad, academic transfer, immigration, family moves and professional files.
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