Sentences with phrase «apostilles in»

Tying authentication to privacy again: the Conference recommends (in paragraph 5a) that the numbers that the Convention requires to be on the apostilles be generated randomly, or at least not sequentially, to make it difficult for someone to ask for details about an apostille without having the actual apostille in hand.

This was the first successful vote utilizing the NEM Voting Module and the 3rd approval given after the previous projects CryptoApex and Apostille in the history of NEM Community Fund voting.

Not exact matches

Instead, people here have to accept an apostille under the Convention as sufficient authentication of the documents in question.

Presumably, however, they can be persuaded to accept an apostille from a Convention state in the place of legalization.

It matters because if Canada becomes a party to the Hague Apostille Convention (known formally as the Convention on the abolition of all forms of legalization), then it will be contrary to the Convention for anyone in Canada to ask for legalization.

If no one in Canada asks for legalization now, we can accede to the Convention based on administrative agreements among federal / provincial / territorial governments to issue apostilles under certain circumstances.

Since Canada is considering acceding to this Convention, this column will review some of the issues involved in that process and in particular the technological frontiers of authentication that The Hague Conference on Private International Law is exploring with respect to electronic apostilles.

Presumably serving as a commissioner for an affidavit is an even stronger case in the same sense, as the document is a public document (within the meaning of the Apostille Convention anyway — not sure the term has much sense in a common law jurisdiction otherwise), and the commissioner is supposed to identify the signer with some certainty and understand the oath, declaration or affirmation to be genuine and unforced.

The electronic apostille (and register): Under the Hague Conference on Private International Law's Convention on the Abolition of All Forms of Legalization, member states may authenticate public documents for use in other member states by use of a certificate called an apostille.

The Hague Conference has been working (with the National Notary Association in the US) to develop a system of electronic apostilles, and a few countries have started producing them.

This reduces the risk of inappropriate discovery of personal information in the public document underlying the apostille.

In Hague Convention countries one simply attaches the Apostille, you get from the national competent authority — and then the document is recognized in the foreign statIn Hague Convention countries one simply attaches the Apostille, you get from the national competent authority — and then the document is recognized in the foreign statin the foreign state.

There is a bit of interest in the Apostille Convention across the country.

I am also aware of preliminary developments of electronic apostilles (certificates of authenticity under the Hague Apostille / Legalization Convention), though they are not widespread yet, and the technology will not exist in every... [more]

The Hague Conference has been collaborating for several years with the National Notary Association (NNA) in the United States on the creation and use of an electronic apostille.

In short, the security of an apostille on paper varies.)

The holder of the apostille will have it from someone who wants the holder to use the document to which the apostille is affixed in the interests of that person and thus who does not mind that the holder has his or her personal information in the document.

Now, my understanding is that governments operating «brick & mortar» registries are notified whenever a foreign entity checks in to verify the authenticity of an apostille that appears at their doorstep.

In any case, concerns over increasing secondary uses of personal information by our gov (let alone other govs) is by no means a concern unique to e-apps and, perhaps, it is one that is more salient with respect to other forms of online interactions that may yield perhaps richer forms of data (although I can see the tracking of apostille use easily becoming a component of international terrorism investigations, particularly if their use becomes more commonplace).

Further, states party to the Convention were encouraged (at the Sixth International Forum on the E-App in 2010, Conclusions and Recommendations, paragraph 5 (a)-RRB- to issue apostilles with non-consecutive numbers.

In practice, no one checks up on the signatures of the competent authorities on the apostilles.

In any event, checking the register will usually give only a yes or no answer: did you issue this apostille?

In principle the prospective user of an apostillized document in the destination state can check with the issuing register to confirm that an apostille was indeed issued for a particular documenIn principle the prospective user of an apostillized document in the destination state can check with the issuing register to confirm that an apostille was indeed issued for a particular documenin the destination state can check with the issuing register to confirm that an apostille was indeed issued for a particular document.

Although the Apostille Convention dates from 1961 and prescribes a form for the apostille, which must be signed, nothing expressly requires it to be in tangiApostille Convention dates from 1961 and prescribes a form for the apostille, which must be signed, nothing expressly requires it to be in tangiapostille, which must be signed, nothing expressly requires it to be in tangible form.

A special meeting convened by The Hague Conference in 2009 expressly recommended that competent authorities add a disclaimer, «outside the box» of the prescribed form of apostille, pointing out that the apostille certifies only the signature and capacity of the signer of the public document, and says nothing about the content of the underlying document.

The e-apostille program also includes an electronic register in which competent authorities record all apostilles they issue.

The number of the apostille is a kind of unique identifier, so both methods of e-sealing described above are in operation.

In recent years the Hague Conference has been advocating the use of electronic apostilles.

Different techniques for the e-apostille are being used or developed in different member states of the Convention, and they may use different approaches to creating the seal on the apostille.

First, the date that the underlying document was signed can be mentioned in the apostille, so the apostille is not readily transferable to another document.

That said, it is not clear on the face of the Convention or in the supporting documents whether a state that received an electronic apostille could refuse to give it legal effect because of concerns about the security of the method by which it was signed.

If the country in which the buyer will be signing the documents is a member of the Hague Convention, he or she can sign in front of a Notary Public and an Apostille will be attached.