Apostille Attestation in Chennai

Chennai is recognized as the capital of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Chennai is 369-year-old capital was formerly known as Madras. As Chennai is one of the biggest cultural, commercial and educational centres in South India, a large number of people travel abroad for the purpose of trade expansion, higher education or occupation. While applying for business, work or student visa the applicant needs to go through apostille attestation procedure.

What is apostille attestation in Chennai and its procedure?

Apostille Attestation of documents is the process of verifying documents as per embassy of the respective country which is part of Hague Convention. The documents for the apostille attestation procedure are categorised as

• Personal Documents

• Educational Certificates

• Commercial documents

The steps are followed in the Apostille attestation procedure:

• Notary Attestation is the initial step of the apostille attestation process.

• Home Department Attestation or SDM Attestation is the second step of apostille attestation. After notary attestation, the documents are submitted for further authentication to the Home Department where the authorities verify the authentication of all personal certificates and further, transferred to the MEA (Ministry of External Affairs) verification. Human Resource Department attests all educational, university and state-issued certificates.

• Apostille from MEA is the third stage of the apostille process. It is a stamp given by the Ministry of External Affairs of the document issuing country, ie, India.

The steps for the personal documents are mentioned below:

1. Notary Attestation

2. Home Department Attestation or SDM Attestation

3. Apostille from MEA

The steps for the educational documents are mentioned below:

1. Notary Attestation / University Verification

2. SDM Attestation / HRD Attestation

3. Apostille from MEA

The steps for the commercial documents are mentioned below:

1.Chamber of Commerce Attestation

2. Apostille from MEA

Well, we at PEC Attestation provide Apostille Attestation in Chennai for all types of documents. Also, we provide a free pickup-drop facility for documents.