The most requested apostille in Broward County — for dual citizenship, foreign marriage, and visa applications. $250 per certificate, 5 business days. Serving Fort Lauderdale from our Fort Lauderdale office, by appointment.
For the 184,000 people who call Fort Lauderdale home, getting a birth certificate accepted abroad comes down to one certification: the Florida apostille. The birth certificate is the single most common document we apostille. Dual citizenship applications, foreign marriages, international work visas, school enrollment abroad — nearly every international process that involves proving who you are starts with an apostilled U.S. birth certificate.
For Florida-born residents, the path runs through the Florida Department of State — but only certified copies issued by the Florida Bureau of Vital Statistics (or a county health department vital records office) qualify. Hospital keepsake certificates, photocopies, and laminated copies are rejected on sight. We review every certificate before filing, walk it into the Department of State in person, and have the apostilled original back in your hands in 5 business days. For Fort Lauderdale residents, that means one handoff — at your door or at our office — and the apostilled original back in your hands on a defined timeline.
Polish, Irish, German, Lithuanian, and other ancestry-based programs require apostilled birth certificates for every generation in your line.
The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Korea, Singapore, and most EU countries include an apostilled birth certificate in the standard visa document package.
Foreign school enrollment, dual-national passport applications, and family reunification petitions all require the child's apostilled U.S. birth certificate.
By far the most common use. Italian consulates require an apostilled birth certificate for the applicant and every ancestor in the direct line of descent.
Fort Lauderdale is home to roughly 184,000 residents. Fort Lauderdale is our home base — our office sits at 6750 N Andrews Ave, Ste 288E, on North Andrews Avenue in the city's northern business corridor. As the county seat, with Port Everglades and an international airport, the city generates constant apostille demand: work assignments abroad, dual citizenship applications, and foreign real-estate closings.
We serve clients throughout Fort Lauderdale's neighborhoods including Las Olas, Victoria Park, Rio Vista, Coral Ridge, Flagler Village, Sailboat Bend, Harbor Beach, and Downtown, as well as nearby communities such as Wilton Manors, Oakland Park, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Plantation, and Davie. Landmarks like Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport, Port Everglades, Las Olas Boulevard, the Riverwalk, and the Broward County Courthouse put us on familiar ground — this is home-turf service, not a mail-order processor.
Our office is right here in the city, on N Andrews Ave just north of Oakland Park Boulevard — book an appointment and hand the documents off in minutes. Also serving birth certificate apostille clients in nearby Davie, Plantation, and Wilton Manors.
For Fort Lauderdale residents, the requirements below decide whether a filing succeeds or bounces: The Florida Department of State will only apostille a certified copy of a birth certificate — one issued by the Florida Bureau of Vital Statistics in Jacksonville or by a county health department vital records office, bearing a raised or printed registrar's seal and an issuing signature. The commemorative certificate from the hospital, however official it looks, cannot be apostilled.
Born in Broward County but don't have a certified copy? You can order one from the Florida Department of Health in Broward County's vital records office or online through the state Bureau of Vital Statistics. Born in another state? Your birth certificate must be apostilled by that state's Secretary of State — we can point you to the right office. Born abroad? A Consular Report of Birth Abroad is a federal document requiring U.S. Department of State authentication instead. When your birth certificate is ready, bring it to our office — about 15 minutes from Fort Lauderdale — appointments usually available same day or next day.
Book an appointment at our Fort Lauderdale office — we confirm your slot within one business hour, with same-day and next-day times usually available.
Every document is checked before filing — certification, notarization, destination-country requirements — so nothing gets rejected.
Your documents are walked into the Florida Department of State in person. No mail-in queue, no batching, no guesswork.
Apostilled originals ready in 5 business days — office pickup or local return delivery. We call the moment they’re back.
No hourly rates, no hidden charges, no surprise add-ons. The price you see is the price you pay — including the Florida Department of State filing fee.
All prices include the Florida Department of State filing fee ($10 per document), in-person filing at the Department of State, and full document handling. Notarization available as a separate service when your documents require it.
Download the Florida Department of State Apostille and Notarial Certificate Request Form. We can fill it out for you at your appointment — no need to complete it in advance.
Because Fort Lauderdale is the county seat, with Port Everglades, an international airport, and the largest concentration of immigration attorneys in Broward, the birth certificates we apostille here are most often bound for Italy, Spain, Colombia, and Brazil. That matters practically: each destination has its own quirks — whether a certified translation is required, whether the receiving registry wants a recently issued copy, and whether the apostille needs to be translated along with the document.
We handle those details as part of the job rather than leaving you to discover them at a consulate window. Tell us the destination country when you call and we’ll confirm exactly what your birth certificate needs before anything is filed — including whether a translation should be ordered before or after the apostille, which is the sequencing mistake that costs Fort Lauderdale clients the most time.
Yes — we serve every city in Broward County, Fort Lauderdale included. Service is by appointment at our Fort Lauderdale office at 6750 N Andrews Ave, Ste 288E; requests before 2 PM are routinely scheduled the same day, and every request gets a confirmed time within one business hour.
Right here in the city — 6750 N Andrews Ave, Ste 288E, on North Andrews Avenue with free on-site parking. Visits are by appointment; call and we'll usually have a same-day slot.
5 business days, drop-off to return — the same in-person filing timeline countywide. Rush handling is available when your deadline is tighter; call us and we'll tell you honestly what's achievable.
If it's a certified copy with the registrar's seal and signature, usually yes — the Department of State authenticates the issuing official's signature. Very old certificates signed by officials no longer on file can occasionally be rejected, in which case a freshly issued certified copy solves it.
A birth certificate must be apostilled by the state that issued it — New York records by New York, New Jersey by New Jersey, and so on. We handle Florida-issued documents; for out-of-state records we can tell you exactly which office to contact.
The apostille itself is a standardized multilingual form, but many countries require a certified translation of the birth certificate for local use. We coordinate certified translations regularly — ask when you book.
Yes — the process is identical, and a parent can request it. Children's certificates are among our most common requests for dual-national passports and foreign school enrollment.
Some receiving countries — Italy and Spain among them — expect a recently issued certified copy, often within the last six months to a year. If yours is decades old, we recommend ordering a fresh certified copy before apostilling. We can advise based on your destination country.
