Notarisation of up to 20 documents

Description

We frequently certify school reports, identity documents, employment references, licence to practise medicine or doctoral certificates, for example.

Differentiation: Official and public notarisation

• The legal requirements authorise the registration authority to officially certify documents, but do not oblige it to do so. Notarisations are therefore exclusively at the discretion of the authority.
• The registration authority is not authorised to officially certify documents. Public notarisation is generally reserved for notaries in accordance with the Notarisation Act.
• Only the entire document can be notarised - not parts or certain pages of it. On request, you can also receive several copies of the required notarisation.

Prerequisites

You or a person authorised by you (no written power of attorney required) must come in person for a notarisation. You will need an appointment for this.

We may only provide a notarisation if the document was issued by a German authority or if you have the document notarised because you need to present it to a German authority or public institution.

For example, we are not authorised to notarise

• Documents in a foreign language without a German translation. For a German translation of documents, you must contact a publicly appointed and sworn translator.
• Private documents that are to be used privately, such as documents relating to inheritance and family law or financial documents. In this case, notarisation by a notary is recommended.
• Notarised copies cannot be made of birth, marriage and death certificates. These documents will bereissuedby the registryofficeat the place of the eventif required.
• Copies of cadastral registers and extracts from a cadastral map series. Notarisation is carried out by the surveying and land registry office.
• Driving licences. Authentication is carried out by the driving licence authority.
• Weapons licences, hunting licences and fishing licences. Notarisation is carried out by the weapons authority.

Required documents

• The original document. (If you only have a copy and no original, we can only use the notarisation to confirm conformity with the copy submitted to us.
• For foreign-language documents: German translation by a publicly sworn or recognised translator.

Please do not bring your own copies. We only make all copies to be notarised ourselves.