For spousal visas, foreign registration of marriage, and citizenship applications. $250 per certificate, 5 business days. Serving Miramar from our Fort Lauderdale office, by appointment.
Miramar sits squarely in our service area — we work with clients from the city constantly, and marriage certificate requests are among the most common reasons why. 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 Miramar 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.
Miramar is home to roughly 135,000 residents. Miramar has one of the largest Jamaican communities in the United States, plus significant Trinidadian and Colombian populations — apostilled birth certificates, police checks, and powers of attorney for use in the Caribbean are everyday requests from Miramar residents.
We serve clients throughout Miramar's neighborhoods including Miramar Park, Silver Falls, Sunset Lakes, Riviera Isles, and Historic Miramar, as well as nearby communities such as Pembroke Pines, West Park, Hollywood, and Miami Gardens. Landmarks like the Miramar Cultural Center, Miramar Regional Park, and the Ansin Sports Complex put us on familiar ground — this is home-turf service, not a mail-order processor.
From Miramar, our Fort Lauderdale office is about 30 minutes away — visits by appointment — and appointments are usually available same day or next day. Also serving marriage certificate apostille clients in nearby Hollywood, and Pembroke Pines.
The rules are specific, and they are where Miramar filings most often go wrong: 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 25 minutes from Miramar — 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 Miramar is home to one of the largest Jamaican communities in the United States, the marriage certificates we apostille here are most often bound for Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, 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 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 Miramar clients the most time.
Yes — we serve every city in Broward County, Miramar 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 30 minutes from Miramar. 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 — 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.
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.
