Does my destination take an apostille?

How we calculated this

An apostille works only when the destination is a contracting party to the 1961 Apostille Convention. The HCCH status table listed 130 parties at its 30-VI-2026 update, checked 2026-10-07.

The five non-member options (United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt, Thailand, Malaysia) are absent from that table, so documents for them go through consular legalization: authentication at home, then the destination's embassy or consulate.

Any other destination falls to the lookup outcome, which sends you to the HCCH status table itself, because membership changes and this list cannot hold 130 countries.

Method checked on 2026-10-07.

Questions

My destination is not in the list. What now?

Open the HCCH status table linked in the lookup result and search the country name. Members take apostilles; non-members need consular legalization.

Does an apostille also prove my document's content is true?

No. It certifies the signature, seal and capacity of the signer only. The receiving office still judges the content.

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