Europe and EU, as its integral part, are the huge market and world region where all states and countries require and accept apostille stamps on public and official documents designated for Europe. Thus, EU (European Union) states like Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Greece, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Malta, Cyprus and non-EU members, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway and UK (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland) accept apostille stamps on foreign documents and put apostille stamps and provide apostille services on their official documents for their use abroad.
Other countries not being part of EU like Ukraine, Moldova, Turkey, Montenegro, Serbia, North Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan put apostille stamps on documents issued in one of these countries. If European documents are going to be used in states that are not signatories to the Apostille Convention (Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya), they should have legalization or super legalization formalities instead of apostille stamping.
The most common documents issued in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Greece, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Malta, Cyprus and non-EU members, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway and UK and other countries and regions of Europe are the diploma, school or university certificate/record, transcript, diploma supplement, birth certificate, marriage certificate, divorce certificate, divorce court decree, affidavit, police clearance certificate (police record, criminal record, certificate of good conduct, certificate of no conviction, police check, non-criminal certificate, non-conviction certificate, certificate of no criminal record), power of attorney, passport, driving license. These above-mentioned documents are subject to apostille stamp procedures at competent ministries of respective countries and certified/accredited or sworn translation into/from English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Czech, Romania, Turkish, Bulgarian, Chinese by professional certified or sworn translators of these languages.
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