Sentences with word «apostille»

Authentication under the Convention relies on two elements: the appointment of trustworthy «competent authorities» by the states of origin, and the creation of a register of apostilles issued.

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.

As mentioned above, no one really verifies the signature on apostilles on paper, or checks the register.

Some states refuse to issue apostilles for certified copies of diplomas.

Apostilles in Canada are likely in practice to be restricted to outbound documents only.

Lots of apostilles for the dossier... The time does actually come and it is very exciting!

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.

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Though the Convention dates from 1961 (and now has about 100 member states — though not yet Canada), it does not require apostilles to be on paper.

It seems likely that Canada would move to an e-register from the outset, but the challenges of the e-app may lead it to start with apostilles on paper.

A number of Canadian governments are increasingly frequently asked to issue apostilles because Canadians are told in foreign countries that they need them — but we can't issue them until we join the Convention.

Compare that to the printed apostilles attached to the authenticated document merely by staples.

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The administrative barrier to accession is the difficulty in figuring out how apostilles would be issued in Canada — by whom, at what cost — and how to manage the transition from the current regime that authenticates public documents to support legalization by foreign consular services.

Could someone — a governmental authority, a sophisticated hacker — get access («lawful access» or otherwise) to the entire register and see what apostilles had been issued to whom?

Perhaps — but such access could occur with the paper - based registers that the Convention has always required of apostille issuers.

The challenge is to have the widespread apostille system go electronic while maintaining its half - century of trust.

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).

Adopting the Convention would also eliminate today's frequent duplication of provincial and federal authentication; any single apostille will suffice under the Convention.

Having a single authentication system designed to support apostilles and legalization certificates is a tempting goal.

The Convention has always required a register that could in principle be checked to verify that any particular apostille was genuine.

For more information on countries party to or bound to this convention, please visit the Hague Conference website, Apostille Section.

Apostilles authenticate public documents for acceptance in foreign countries that abide by the Hague Convention's...

The Hague Conference's Apostille Convention provides a method of authenticating seals (and signatures) on public documents to facilitate use of those documents internationally.

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

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.

Nonetheless, the result is arguably not less secure than the current ink - on - paper signatures and seals on printed apostilles.

Though the Convention refers to card indexes as well as registers, the latter — media - neutral — term is now preferred for the official record of apostilles issued.

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.

So if we send in our FBI background check and get it signed and authorized by the Department of State, then we have our apostille?

An apostille seal is a certificate or stamp issued by our Department of Foreign Affairs.

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

Such a clause helps Canada because it is hard to get provincial and territorial unanimity to legislate, even for uncontroversial matters like the Apostille Convention.

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

But if someone does require legalization now, then we may have to legislate to ban it and to insist that an apostille will suffice.

The Canadian Bar Association has urged the federal, provincial and territorial governments of Canada to do what is needed to ratify the Apostille Convention.

In that context I mentioned The Hague Convention of 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, known as the Legalization Convention or the Apostille Convention.

An electronic version promises much easier use and is likely to change the practice of apostille - based authentication as a result.

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.

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 state.

One problem is that setting up the system requires an investment, though one that can be recouped by fees charged for the apostilles.