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The Oman has joined the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents in the year 2011. Therefore no diplomatic authentication or legalization of documents from Oman is required for the legal communication with another member state of the convention. The documents only need to be stamped with an apostille by the issuing state's authorities in order to be valid in the state of destination.
In Oman, the issuing authority is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Documents issued by the Omani authorities and published in Arabic or English can be apostilled.
The legalisation process in Oman includes verification by an authorized civil servant of the authenticity of a document. After passing through this procedure, a special stamp - an apostille - is placed on the document (or on its certified copy). Usually the apostille is placed on the back of the document, or on a separate sheet, after which the document is stitched.
An apostille is a stamp of rectangular shape. The heading "Apostille (Convention de La Haye du 5 Octobre 1961)" must be in French. The stamp indicates the signature verified by the apostille, the date and the identification number of the apostille itself.
The following documents can be authenticated by apostille:
- Certificates of civil status (certificates of birth, death, marriage and divorce)
- Education documents (school reports, certificates, diplomas)
- Excerpts from the commercial register
- Judicial decisions
- Notarially certified copies of documents
- Notarially certified translations
- Further notarial documents (authorisations, last will, declarations)
- Commercial documents legalised by a state organ of registration (articles of incorporation, registration certificates, tax registrations etc.)
Some documents are exempt from apostilling and cannot be legalised (such as diplomatic and consular certificates as well as customs and commercial certificates).
Requirements for the documents:
An apostille can be issued exclusively on an original document. Therefore, the latter must be in an apparent good condition, all stamps and signatures have to be clear and readable. Furthermore, it must not contain alien marking and labels.
Additional services
In addition to the legalization of your documents, we can provide you with high quality translations.
If you want to bring company information before the court, it needs to be legalised as well. We are therefore offering extracts from the commercial register of Oman including apostille and translation.
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