Teach English abroad, take a foreign job offer, enroll in graduate school overseas. Notarization requirements handled. $250 per document, 5 business days. Serving Lauderhill from our Fort Lauderdale office, by appointment.
For the 74,000 people who call Lauderhill home, getting a diploma accepted abroad comes down to one certification: the Florida apostille. Foreign employers, universities, and licensing boards don't accept a U.S. diploma on faith — they require an apostille. And education documents are the trickiest category in the Florida apostille system, because a diploma isn't a public record: before the Florida Department of State will touch it, the document must be properly notarized.
That's where most do-it-yourself attempts fail. The registrar or records custodian must sign a statement before a Florida notary attesting the copy is true — done incorrectly, the state rejects the filing. We know exactly what Florida requires, we coordinate the notarization step when your school hasn't done it, and we file in person. $250 per document, 5 business days from the point your document is apostille-ready. For Lauderhill residents, that means one handoff — at your door or at our office — and the apostilled original back in your hands on a defined timeline.
Universities abroad increasingly require apostilled transcripts even for one-semester exchange enrollment.
Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, Spain, and the UAE all require apostilled diplomas for teaching visas — the single most common diploma apostille we handle.
Employers and work-visa authorities across the Gulf states, Europe, and Asia require apostilled degrees as part of the employment package.
Foreign universities require apostilled diplomas and transcripts for admission and credential evaluation.
Lauderhill is home to roughly 74,000 residents. Lauderhill is the heart of South Florida's Jamaican community, and the paperwork reflects it: documents bound for Kingston, Montego Bay, and the wider Caribbean nearly every week. Land matters back home drive most of it — powers of attorney authorizing a relative to sell or transfer family property — followed by police character certificates for Jamaican licensing and birth certificates for children claiming dual nationality.
We serve clients throughout Lauderhill's neighborhoods including Inverrary, Boulevard Gardens, Broward Estates, and the Central Lauderhill corridor, as well as nearby communities such as Lauderdale Lakes, Sunrise, Plantation, and Tamarac. Landmarks like the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center, Central Broward Park's cricket stadium, and Inverrary's golf communities put us on familiar ground — this is home-turf service, not a mail-order processor.
From Lauderhill, our Fort Lauderdale office is about 15 minutes away — visits by appointment — and appointments are usually available same day or next day. Also serving diploma apostille clients in nearby Plantation, Sunrise, and Tamarac.
The rules are specific, and they are where Lauderhill filings most often go wrong: Diplomas and transcripts are private institutional documents, so Florida requires a notarization before apostille. The accepted route: the school's registrar or records custodian signs a notarized statement (before a Florida notary) attesting that the attached copy is a true copy of the original. Many Florida universities — including Broward College, FAU, NSU, and FIU — have registrar offices familiar with this request; sealed official transcripts often carry the registrar's signature that can be notarized on the spot.
If your school is out of state, the notarization generally must happen in the school's state and the apostille comes from that state — with some workarounds we can explain by phone. High school diplomas follow the same pattern through the school district. And if you hit a wall with a registrar, call us: we've untangled this for hundreds of graduates and know the practical routes for Broward-area institutions. When your diploma is ready, bring it to our office — about 20 minutes from Lauderhill — appointments usually available same day or next day.
Tell us what you need by phone or through the form. Your office appointment is confirmed within one business hour.
Each document passes a pre-filing review — certified copy, complete notarization, destination-country rules — because rejections cost weeks.
We file in person at the Florida Department of State. No mail-in backlog, no batching, no waiting on an envelope.
In five business days the apostilled originals are back and ready — office pickup or local delivery, with a call to let you know.
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 Lauderhill is the heart of South Florida’s Jamaican community, the diplomas we apostille here are most often bound for Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana. 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 diploma needs before anything is filed — including whether a translation should be ordered before or after the apostille, which is the sequencing mistake that costs Lauderhill clients the most time.
Yes — we serve every city in Broward County, Lauderhill 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.
We're at 6750 N Andrews Ave, Ste 288E in Fort Lauderdale — about 15 minutes from Lauderhill. Office visits are by appointment, and same-day slots are usually available.
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.
Yes — same notarized true-copy route, through the school or the school district's records office. Broward County Public Schools' records department processes these requests.
Yes — that's the Florida rule for education documents. A school official signs a true-copy statement before a Florida notary, and that notarized document is what the Department of State apostilles. We coordinate this step routinely.
Contact the registrar's office and request a notarized true-copy certification of your diploma or an official transcript with notarized registrar signature — these schools handle the request regularly. Then we take over: review, in-person filing, and return in 5 business days.
Usually the notarization and apostille must both happen in the school's state. We'll confirm your specific situation and point you to the right office — and if a Florida-side route exists for your case, we'll tell you.
Depends on the destination: teaching programs in Korea and Japan usually want the diploma; universities and credential evaluators usually want transcripts; Gulf-state employers often want both. Check your checklist — or read it to us and we'll interpret it.
