Apostil for documents??

[dkrivosheyev 0]

I just talked to my fiancee on the phone, and she told me that all documents for K1 visa interview have to have an apostil on them, not just be notarized. Has anyone heard about this? According to my fiancee's friend, Moscow Embassy requires that all Russian documents (birth certificate, police report, etc.) have apostil. I have never seen it on the embassy website, and nobody here ever mentioned anything about this. Moreover, the translations from Russian to English don't even need to be notarized according to the embassy website. Please let me know what you think as this is completely new for us, and there is only 3 weeks before the interview...

Thank you,

[gogal2020 0]

I just talked to my fiancee on the phone, and she told me that all documents for K1 visa interview have to have an apostil on them, not just be notarized. Has anyone heard about this? According to my fiancee's friend, Moscow Embassy requires that all Russian documents (birth certificate, police report, etc.) have apostil. I have never seen it on the embassy website, and nobody here ever mentioned anything about this. Moreover, the translations from Russian to English don't even need to be notarized according to the embassy website. Please let me know what you think as this is completely new for us, and there is only 3 weeks before the interview...

Thank you,

We just notorized the documents, it was not required and was done just in case. If you want to be sure you can e-mail the embassy, but unless this is a brand new rule, never heard of this before.

Mike.

[dkrivosheyev 0]

I just talked to my fiancee on the phone, and she told me that all documents for K1 visa interview have to have an apostil on them, not just be notarized. Has anyone heard about this? According to my fiancee's friend, Moscow Embassy requires that all Russian documents (birth certificate, police report, etc.) have apostil. I have never seen it on the embassy website, and nobody here ever mentioned anything about this. Moreover, the translations from Russian to English don't even need to be notarized according to the embassy website. Please let me know what you think as this is completely new for us, and there is only 3 weeks before the interview...

Thank you,

We just notorized the documents, it was not required and was done just in case. If you want to be sure you can e-mail the embassy, but unless this is a brand new rule, never heard of this before.

Mike.

I will call the Embassy tomorrow, but supposedly this rule was in place for quite some time. This is probably not true, but I just want to be absolutely sure about it ...

[Turboguy 6]

I have a feeling that the answer to this is both yes and no.

I think they do need to have apostil, but I would be they come that way automatically if they are originals as required.

If I think about the stamp on my divorce decree, it says "certified to be a true copy" If I think about my birth certificate it has a seal and would be certified by the court. I would bet the Russian equivilents are the same way. I recall some sort of seal on my fiancees BC.

[slim 1,523]

According to my fiancee's friend,

There's your first problem.

Your fiancee has a packet with detailed instructions. Have her follow those, and those only.

[dkrivosheyev 0]

According to my fiancee's friend,

There's your first problem.

Your fiancee has a packet with detailed instructions. Have her follow those, and those only.

She never received a packet, so we are going by the instructions from the embassy website. But I think you are correct, I just want to be absolutely sure...

[dkrivosheyev 0]

I have a feeling that the answer to this is both yes and no.

I think they do need to have apostil, but I would be they come that way automatically if they are originals as required.

If I think about the stamp on my divorce decree, it says "certified to be a true copy" If I think about my birth certificate it has a seal and would be certified by the court. I would bet the Russian equivilents are the same way. I recall some sort of seal on my fiancees BC.

Well, she has the originals, but the question is about the translations. According to the website they do not need to be notarized. Apostil is a document that confirms that a notary public who notarized a document is authorized by the Russian government to perform notary services, it is usually a separate piece of paper. At least this is my understanding of what apostil is. I had to get one here in the U.S. for some documents I had to send to Russia, and that is what I had.

[Satellite 1]

She never received a packet, so we are going by the instructions from the embassy website. But I think you are correct, I just want to be absolutely sure...

Where on the embassy website does it say you need apostilled documents?

Also look up the definition of an Apostille:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostille

You will find that it is needed only when you want to use a document in another country. Considering that you are submitting all your Russian documents to an embassy in RUSSIA, you don't need it. And of course it is not needed for US documents because ONLY US officials will look at them. And finally when submitting RUSSIAN documents at US service centers, we simply do not require the apostille, but do require the translation.

[dkrivosheyev 0]

She never received a packet, so we are going by the instructions from the embassy website. But I think you are correct, I just want to be absolutely sure...

Where on the embassy website does it say you need apostilled documents?

Also look up the definition of an Apostille:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostille

You will find that it is needed only when you want to use a document in another country. Considering that you are submitting all your Russian documents to an embassy in RUSSIA, you don't need it. And of course it is not needed for US documents because ONLY US officials will look at them. And finally when submitting RUSSIAN documents at US service centers, we simply do not require the apostille, but do require the translation.

OK, Thank you everybody!

[lerry&luisa 0]

I just talked to my fiancee on the phone, and she told me that all documents for K1 visa interview have to have an apostil on them, not just be notarized. Has anyone heard about this? According to my fiancee's friend, Moscow Embassy requires that all Russian documents (birth certificate, police report, etc.) have apostil. I have never seen it on the embassy website, and nobody here ever mentioned anything about this. Moreover, the translations from Russian to English don't even need to be notarized according to the embassy website. Please let me know what you think as this is completely new for us, and there is only 3 weeks before the interview...

Thank you,

We had to apostille ours in Venezuela, I believe its because the government requires it to be a legal document. As far as the translations, to be safe, even though it doesn't say so on the website, whoever translates them for you have them start out with I, xxxxx, hereby certify that this document, (marriage, birth etc) is a true translation of the origina attached (marriage, birth, etc) and I would still have someone like your bank notarize it.

[lerry&luisa 0]

I just talked to my fiancee on the phone, and she told me that all documents for K1 visa interview have to have an apostil on them, not just be notarized. Has anyone heard about this? According to my fiancee's friend, Moscow Embassy requires that all Russian documents (birth certificate, police report, etc.) have apostil. I have never seen it on the embassy website, and nobody here ever mentioned anything about this. Moreover, the translations from Russian to English don't even need to be notarized according to the embassy website. Please let me know what you think as this is completely new for us, and there is only 3 weeks before the interview...

Thank you,

I have my original marriage certificate, but to get it apostille we had to go to another city Cumana which takes care of all official civil records and they basically printed out a new one with ALL KINDS OF STAMPS and SEALS. We could not have gotten it in our local municipality. Without it, the Venezuelans feel that it is not a legal document without these seals. It was not an additional paper just stamps throughout especially the last page

[Blues Fairy 0]

If your fiancee's friend reads Russian girls' forums on K1 visa, no wonder she will say that all kinds of unnecessary things are strictly required.

[slim 1,523]

If your fiancee's friend reads Russian girls' forums on K1 visa, no wonder she will say that all kinds of unnecessary things are strictly required.

Yes, things like apostilled "everything" are very helpful to girls on the Russian K1 visa forums because anything that will ease the transition to getting divorced after the magical 2 year waiting period; it's a lot easier to get them now while you're still "in love" than to get them later.

[Blues Fairy 0]

Yes, things like apostilled "everything" are very helpful to girls on the Russian K1 visa forums because anything that will ease the transition to getting divorced after the magical 2 year waiting period; it's a lot easier to get them now while you're still "in love" than to get them later.

Not because of that Slim. They are simply paranoid and will encourage each other to gather ten times the necessary amount of paperwork. There's a whole discussion for example on how to translate SEALS on the police certificate. Crazy.

[dkrivosheyev 0]

Well, I guess we are all correct - I called the embassy and found out that no apostil is required. Blues Fairy is probably right - there is a lot of discussion going on on the Russian K1 forums about different documents...