Fast and Accessible Notary Public Service in London
Notarisation, Apostille and Legalisation. Making it easy for you and Over 5,000 happy clients.
We provide our clients with easy, quick and convenient notary and apostille services.
Book your appointment with us us now and we’ll guide you with a clear and effective solution to your needs. If you face a tight timescale, we can fit you in at short notice.
Give us a ring on our phone number +44 0207499 2605 for a free telephone consultation or email us on notary@notarypubliclondon.co.uk
We can usually fit you in with an appointment on the same or next day at our central London office on Wigmore Street near Bond Street and Oxford Circus Stations.
If you need an Apostille, we can arrange one in a few hours.
Need a mobile notary service in London? We can come to you. Some jobs may even be done online or entirely remotely.
Our Most Popular Services
Notary Public Services
Notary Public Services for private individuals and companies. Our aim is to notarise your documents and give you a quality service.
Apostille
Apostille Service Apostille Apostille are stamps issued by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. We partner with the FCDO to offer a same-day, next-day, and standard 3-5 day Apostille Services.
Consular Legalisation
Need more than an Apostille? We’ve got you covered! If you need an Embassy stamp (also known as “legalisation”), we can help. Our streamline legalisation process takes the burden from you.
Learn More About Our Notary Public Firm
Our Notary Public firm has been providing trusted Notarial Services for the private individual client and commercial clients in London since 2004.
We the requisite experience to get you the right result.
We aim to deliver top-notch service, make the job straightforward and give you the best experience possible.
We guide you through any hidden or additional requirements beyond notarisation, including obtaining a Apostille and consular legalisation if necessary. Not to mention some of the quirks that we’ve identified and added to our knowledge bank over the years.
We handle a wide range of documents for various countries and actively guide you through each territory’s common practices.
Understand the role of a notary
Notaries are specialist lawyers dedicated to establishing facts crucial for overseas transactions.
Our Notaries verify your documents’ genuineness, integrity, and legality. This ensures proper legal recognition in foreign jurisdictions.
Although most Notaries are qualified solicitors, Notaries are qualified lawyers in their own right.
The Notarial profession (General Notaries and Scrivener Notaries) is regulated by the Master of the Faculties, of the Archbishop of Canterbury Faculty Office.
Our representative office is the Notaries Society of England and Wales who, along with the Court of Faculties, administer the complaints procedure for Public Notaries. For further information visit our Ts and Cs page.
As well as authenticating documents, Notaries with full practising certificates may do other legal work such as, probate and estate planning and giving legal advice as long as it does not involve preparing papers for court in litigation papers.
Examples Of When You Might Need A Notary Public
- Real estate transactions. Sometimes you will need to grant a powers of attorney to someone (usually your lawyer) to sign papers for you. Or the Land deeds themselves may need notarised.
- Certifying company documents such as certificates of incorporation, articles of association, board resolutions and other official documents. Verifying the identity of Directors and confirming companies are established in the UK
- Statutory Declarations and Affidavits sworn statements for court and other matters
- Consent for Children to travel overseas with one parent or guardian
- Attesting legal documents for visa applications
- When you are getting married abroad you might need to establish your ability to marry
- Education and skills, sometimes you need to certify degree certificates
- Authenticating professional qualifications
- Opening a bank account and associated KYC processes like providing notarised passport copy and proof of address e.g. utility bills or bank statements and other identification documents.
- Notarising mortgage and loan documents especially for US notary matters.
- Notarising documents in a foreign language so long as you speak that language or a legal officer in a foreign country has adequately explained it to you.
- Commissioner for Oaths services for the UK and Northern Ireland documents
- Bills of exchange and shipping documents
The services of a Notary Public can be called upon in many types of document and when a Notary’s signature is on a notarial act, the world trusts it. Notaries Public hold international recognition for this purpose.
Our job is to confirm to the receiving party that you’re a legitimate person or company.
And you’re willing, able, and authorised to bind yourself or the company you represent to what you are signing.
We ensure that the documents are signed in the prescribed manner. That way, all who encounter the final notarial certificate can place faith in its effectiveness and legality.
E-Notary Electronic Notarisation And E-Apostilles
E-Notarisation or electronic notarisation is when the notary uses an ‘Advanced Electronic Signature’ (AES) or ‘Qualified Electronic Signature’ (QES). AES and QES are signatures which are uniquely linked to the signatory. These are registered with a national supervisory body.
We offer Online Notary UK services and have AES and QES signatures and can help you get an E-Apostille.
Apostille UK and Consulate Legalisation Services
We know that ‘Apostille’ and ‘legalisation’ might be new terms for many. Visit our Apostille Meaning page for a full explanation as to what an Apostille actually is.
Don’t worry, we break down the barriers and offer a solution led Apostille service.
Legalisation requires additional verification, typically involving the UK Government confirming the authority of the Notary Public or other public official who signed the document.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCDO) is the competent authority to issue Apostilles in the UK. They physically attach an ‘Apostille’ certificate to the document that the Notary has signed. It shows that the Notary is a registered notary public in the UK and has signed and sealed the document.
This procedure follows the rules outlined in an international treaty called the Hague Convention.
We also can obtain e-Apostilles which have been available from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office since 2022.
Please visit our Apostilles page for more information and our service offering on obtaining Apostilles.
Consular Legalisation
If the destination country isn’t part of The Hague Convention, extra verification may be needed.
Normally, you’ll need to send your document to the London Consulate of the destination country. They’ll check the Apostille and add a legalisation stamp to the document.
‘Consular legalisation’ is the term used to describe this process.
The ‘legalisation’ process involves submitting the document, typically with the Apostille attached, to the Consulate. The Consular Officer usually signs it and affixes an official stamp in addition to the Apostille.
This makes the document legally valid in the destination country.
The Hague Convention has removed the need for consular legalisation for countries who are party to the Convention.
Visit our Legalisation Guide for details on what each country requires.
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