FCDO attestation is required when an official in another country has asked you to provide a UK document and they require it to be legalised. The FCDO will check the document and see if any signatures, stamps or seals match their own records. If they do match, they will attest the document by attaching an ‘apostille’ (stamped official certificate). You cannot get documents issued from outside of the UK legalised using the FCDO in the UK - you must get them legalised in the country they were issued in. In some cases, your documents will need to be copied and notarised before the FCDO can attest them. Please note that in the case of marriage, birth, death, medical and police certificates, the original certificates will be attested so will not need notarising. Most other documents can be copied. We can have the documents notarised for you if needed, simply click on the Notarisation link above to download our forms. If the document that you need to be attested requires an embassy legalisation afterwards, please select the country service from our menu. In all cases, country members of the Hague convention only require an apostille stamp from the FCDO and not an embassy stamp. Please note that the FCDO will charge per document being attested. If you require 2 documents to have an apostille stamp, they will charge 2 sets of fees. Our service charge is, however, only payable per visit - if we are attending to attest 2 documents for example, your fees will be 2x FCDO but 1x our service charge.