For spousal visas, foreign registration of marriage, and citizenship applications. $250 per certificate, 5 business days. Serving Fort Lauderdale from our Fort Lauderdale office, by appointment.
Every week, marriage certificate apostille requests reach us from Fort Lauderdale households and businesses — a city of roughly 184,000 where international paperwork is a fact of daily life. Married in Florida, but the marriage needs to count somewhere else? Foreign governments don't take a U.S. marriage certificate at face value — they require an apostille before registering the marriage, issuing a spousal visa, processing a name change, or extending citizenship rights to a spouse.
Florida marriage certificates are issued by the Clerk of Court in the county where the license was recorded — in Broward County, that's the Broward Clerk of Courts. Only a certified copy with the clerk's seal qualifies for an apostille. We verify the copy, file it in person at the Florida Department of State, and return the apostilled certificate 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.
Updating a passport, national ID, or property title in another country after marrying in Florida requires the apostilled certificate as proof.
Survivor benefits, health coverage, and pension rights for a spouse under a foreign system require apostilled proof of the marriage.
Divorce or annulment proceedings in a foreign court over a Florida marriage begin with an apostilled copy of the original certificate.
Immigration authorities in nearly every country require an apostilled marriage certificate before issuing a spousal visa or residency permit to a foreign-married couple.
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 marriage 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 document must be a certified copy of the marriage record issued by the Clerk of Court in the Florida county where the marriage license was filed — for Broward weddings, the Broward County Clerk of Courts. The decorative certificate signed at the ceremony, the church certificate, and photocopies cannot be apostilled.
Don't have a certified copy? Broward's Clerk of Courts issues them by mail, online, and in person. Married in another Florida county — Miami-Dade, Monroe, or anywhere else in the state — the process is the same through that county's clerk, and we apostille those too. Married in another state, and the certificate must be apostilled there; married abroad, and the foreign certificate can't receive a U.S. apostille at all. When your marriage certificate is ready, bring it to our office — about 15 minutes from Fort Lauderdale — appointments usually available same day or next day.
Start with a two-minute call or the request form. We schedule your office appointment and confirm within one business hour.
Documents are inspected first: is the copy certified, is the notarization complete, does the destination country need something extra? Problems surface now, not later.
We hand-deliver your file to the Florida Department of State. In-person filing is the difference between five business days and several weeks.
Your apostilled originals are back in five business days — office collection or local delivery, and a phone call the moment they arrive.
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 marriage 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 marriage 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.
Certified copies don't expire under Florida law, but many foreign registries want one issued within the last 6–12 months. If yours is old, order a fresh copy — it's inexpensive and avoids rejection abroad.
Yes — any Florida county. The apostille comes from the Florida Department of State regardless of which county clerk issued the record.
The Broward County Clerk of Courts — you can order certified copies online, by mail, or in person. Once you have the certified copy with the clerk's seal, we take it from there.
No. Either spouse — or anyone you authorize — can hand us the certificate. The apostille authenticates the clerk's signature on the record, not yours.
Frequently, yes — Spanish-, Portuguese-, and Italian-speaking countries typically require a certified translation of the certificate for local registration. We coordinate translation and apostille together.
