New Zealand Apostille Service

Isarey is a specialist provider of Apostille and document authentication services in New Zealand. We certify New Zealand documents for legal use in the United Kingdom and abroad.

Document certification in New Zealand

We offer Apostille and consular attestation services to certify New Zealand criminal record certificates, birth and marriage certificates, academic certificates and other documents.

Our New Zealand certification services are provided to clients worldwide:

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    New Zealand Apostille Stamps
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    Attestation of New Zealand document at embassies and consulates in Wellington
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    Free pre-check of your scanned documents to confirm eligibility
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    Expedited and urgent processing where available
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    Local assistance obtaining new and replacement copies of official New Zealand documents.
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    Worldwide collection and delivery of original documents by insured courier
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    Prior certification in the New Zealand by notaries, Chamber of Commerce, local authorities as required
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    Certified and sworn translations from English into all major languages
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    Secure processing of documents and data at every stage

For further information about certifying your documents in New Zealand
Contact us for a free quotation or to check that your documents are eligible for submission:

Each process in New Zealand is individually managed from start to finish by a dedicated certification specialist, who will stay in contact with you throughout the process until successful completion.

We’ll make sure that all your documents are correctly prepared and accredited for authentication, working locally in New Zealand with certified translators, notaries and specialist certification agents.

  • Apostille Birth and marriage and death certificates issued in New Zealand at the Department of Internal Affairs.

    Birth and marriage and death certificates

    We apostille Birth and marriage and death certificates issued in New Zealand at the Department of Internal Affairs' Authentication Unit. We can order new copies of certificates directly in New Zealand to obtain apostille stamps, or we can make a certified copy from a good-quality scan.
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  • Apostille New Zealand Criminal Conviction History Certificates at the Department of Internal Affairs.

    Criminal Conviction History

    We authenticate New Zealand Criminal Conviction History Certificate with apostille stamps obtained from the Department of Internal Affairs. We also legalize New Zealand police checks at the UAE embassy in Wellington and Qatar embassy in Canberra.
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  • New Zealand Education Certificates

    Apostille New Zealand University degree certificates and other types of academic and professional qualifications awarded in New Zealand.

  • Notarized Documents

    Powers of Attorney, Affidavits, certified passport copies, contracts and other private documents certified by a notary in New Zealand.

  • Incorporation Documents

    Certify New Zealand corporate documents including certificates of incorporation, certificates of good standing, articles of association, board resolutions for use abroad.

  • Trade documents

    Apostille New Zealand certificates of origin, certificates of free sale, commercial invoices, product health certificates, GMP certificates and other trade documents

We work hard to make the certification process easy and affordable:

  1. send us a scan of your documents by email or using our Online Quotation Form
  2. we'll confirm that your scanned documents are eligible for certification in New Zealand and get back to you with a fixed price to complete the process and an estimate of how long it will take
  3. we'll arrange an insured courier to collect your documents if originals are required
  4. we complete the certification process in New Zealand
  5. we email you a scan of the certified documents and return the paper copies by insured courier (worldwide delivery)

In nearly all cases, we give a fixed total price in advance that includes all fees and disbursements - everything from collection of your original documents by insured courier to their return once certified. For most processes we require 50% payment upon receipt of the original documents, and 50% once the process is complete.

Corporate services

Isarey offers business and institutional clients a full range of certification and notary services in New Zealand, including certification of corporate and commercial documents. We also offer our clients the following services in New Zealand:Right arrowCertified TranslationsRight arrowInternational Background ChecksRight arrowInternational Document Verification

Please contact us for further information or for a quote.

How we certify New Zealand documents

Depending on the country of use, New Zealand documents can be certified by means of an apostille or by consular legalization

Apostille Certification

Apostille Certification is a simplified procedure to certify New Zealand documents required for presentation in a country that is one of the Signatories to the Apostille Convention

An apostille is a special stamp affixed to the document in New Zealand by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or other accredited authority. This apostille will be recognised directly by authorities in the recipient country as demonstrating the document’s authenticity, without need for further certification.

Apostille countries include: ES SpainSpain - IT ItalyItaly - PT PortugalPortugal - GR GreeceGreece - CY CyprusCyprus - FR FranceFrance - SA Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia - DE GermanyGermany - CN ChinaChina

Consular Legalization

If the document is to be presented in a country that is NOT among the Signatories to the Apostille Convention then the document must be certified by consular legalization

Consular legalization is a 2-step process: First, the documents need to be certified in New Zealand by the the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; then documents need to be presented to the embassy or consulate representing the recipient country in New Zealand.

Non-apostille countries include: AE United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates - QA QatarQatar - TH ThailandThailand - TW TaiwanTaiwan - VN VietnamVietnam

Certified Translation

When the original document is in a language other than the official language of the country where it is to be presented, a certified translation is required. Depending on the situation, this can be done before certifying the original (in the country of issue) or afterwards (in the country of use).

Each country has different rules on certified translations, and a certified translation done in one country is generally not valid in another without additional certification. Likewise a certified translation, on its own, does not prove the authenticity of an original document issued abroad.

Isarey can arrange certified translations from English as part of the process of certifying New Zealand documents, ensuring that the translation is valid for its intended use.

Notarization

Certification by a notary is generally only recognised in the country where the notary is based and is not sufficient to certify documents that need to be used abroad. However, as part of the international certification process documents often need to be certified by a notary before they can be legalized. When documents need to be notarised locally, Isarey will arrange this as part of the certification process.

Get a Quotation for your Documents

We price each certification process individually, depending on the type and quantity of documents to be attested, the country of issue, the country of use and intended purpose, urgency, whether certified translations are required as part of the process and courier costs.

To receive a quote, you can upload your documents using our online quotation form or send us your documents by email. After reviewing your documents and requirements, we will get back to you with a quotation:

If you don’t have the documents available, just describe the documents you need to certify, and we will get back to you with an estimation of cost and delivery times.

Using our quotation form, your documents will be uploaded over a secure connection and immediately encrypted on our server. For added protection, you can upload password-protected files (PDFExternal link (opens in new tab), Microsoft Office 365: Save a password protected document to prevent unauthorized people from opening it. Office DocumentsExternal link (opens in new tab), WinRAR Encryption Frequently asked question (FAQ) RAR foldersExternal link (opens in new tab)) and provide us with the passwords separately.

PERSONAL DATA: If your documents contain personal data belonging to people outside your household, please ensure that you are authorised to share this data before uploading your documents. If your documents contain sensitive personal data, such as biometric data, medical data or data on criminal convictions, please ensure that you indicate this when prompted, upon submitting your documents. For further information on our processing of personal data contained in uploaded documents, please see:
Privacy Policy (Customer Inquiries)

For further information on confidentiality in our handling of document content please see:
Confidentiality (Client Content)

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