Legalisation
Legalisation
Documents for legalisation are accepted only from persons who legally reside in Poland. These persons can submit for legalisation their own documents or the documents of their family members (parents, spouses, children).
Documents for legalisation are to be submitted in person.
When submitting documents for legalisation, following elements are to be included:
- the document (original or a notarised copy [in case of documents originating from Lithuania]) to be legalised;
- one (1) appointment is for presentation of up to 5 documents;
- valid passport or other identity document of the person submitting the document for legalisation;
- document proving residence in Poland of the person submitting document for legalization;
- a free-form request (an application letter including following information: country in which the legalised document is to be submitted and applicant’s contact details (e-mail address and telephone No);
- consular fee for legalisation of one document - 20 EUR. Payment is payable using applicant’s banking card.
Upon legalisation of documents the applicant is notified using contact data from respective request / free form application letter as laid-out above.
Legalisation of document is a verification of the signature, the position of the signatory and the stamp in the document in cases of bearing the stamp applied on the document.
Only documents legalized by the embassies of the respective countries in Warsaw will be accepted for legalization.
Documents have to be orderly and readable. If the document consists of few pages, they have to be affixed or sewn together.
Each document is approved separately (e. g. diploma and its appendix are two (2) separate documents).
