Apostille for a death certificate from United States
A death certificate from United States is apostilled by Secretary of State of the issuing state. We organise it for you – including the fresh original and any pre-certification – add a sworn translation if needed, and deliver worldwide.
Start your death certificate apostille
No payment before quote- Upload a scan, 2 min
- Verify with your phone
- Delivered by courier or download
Let us get this done for you
- Apostille from 8 hours
- Written quote before you pay
- Encrypted, no account needed
- 1Upload a scanWe pre-check it and confirm the route
- 2Verify with your phoneID + selfie, ~3 minutes, then your quote
- 3We obtain the apostilleCompetent authority + sworn translation
- 4DeliveredCourier worldwide or protected download
Who issues it, who apostilles it
State or county vital records office; Consular Reports of Birth Abroad by the Department of State
Secretary of State of the issuing state; US Department of State for federal documents
The certificate must be a certified copy issued by the vital records office – hospital certificates cannot be apostilled.
In the United States each state apostilles its own documents:
Where a United States death certificate with apostille is accepted
Not accepted in Kosovo (Article 12 objection) – documents for these countries are legalised or verified instead.
- United States → United KingdomApostille
- United States → GermanyApostille
- United States → SpainApostille
- United States → ItalyApostille
- United States → FranceApostille
- United States → CanadaApostille
- United States → AustraliaApostille
- United States → United Arab EmiratesLegalisation required
- United States → Saudi ArabiaApostille
- United States → TürkiyeApostille
- United States → NetherlandsApostille
What we need from you
- Recent original death certificate (we can order it with proof of your entitlement)
- Country of issue, destination and purpose
- Optional: inheritance documents for a joint apostille request
Sworn translation into the language of the probate court is almost always required outside the EU.
United States death certificate apostille: questions
Secretary of State of the issuing state; US Department of State for federal documents. Issued by: State or county vital records office; Consular Reports of Birth Abroad by the Department of State – The certificate must be a certified copy issued by the vital records office – hospital certificates cannot be apostilled.
Yes. The apostille must be issued in United States, but you do not have to be there: we organise a suitable original where possible, the submission to the competent authority and delivery of the apostilled death certificate anywhere. The notary reviews your application first.
An Article 12 objection is in force between United States and Kosovo; documents for these countries are legalised or verified instead. Non-Convention countries such as the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait always need legalisation.
In most countries only relatives in the direct line, spouses and persons with a legal interest can obtain it. With your authorisation and proof of kinship we order it from the registry and take it straight to the apostille authority.
Usually yes when it is used abroad. It is a court or notarial document, so it is apostilled by the authority responsible for judicial documents in the issuing country. We submit both documents in parallel to save time.
Where the registry issues certificates online and the country has e-apostilles, within days. Elsewhere the bottleneck is obtaining a fresh certificate, which we start on the day you order.
Death certificate from other countries
United States death certificate, apostilled and delivered
Fresh original, authority, translation and courier in one request – quoted before you pay.
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