Apostille vs. Embassy legalisation for Haiti
For most destinations the FCDO Legalisation Office puts one mark on a UK paper and the job is finished. Haiti is not one of those places. A degree certificate, a company deed or a civil record sent there still faces a review by a separate desk once Milton Keynes has done its part, so the mark on its own will not settle matters. That extra call is what document legalisation for Haiti actually adds, and knowing it now saves a returned paper later.
The Glasgow end of the job is unchanged by any of this. You still send the same paper, to the same office, at the same cost as anyone else in the country. Where a Haiti-bound paper differs is what happens once it comes back stamped: a further check still stands between that page and its use over there.
Haiti's Hague status & what it means
The United Kingdom has been a member of the Hague Convention since 1965, so a single UK mark is normally the finish line when the receiving country belongs to it too. Haiti falls outside that circle, which is exactly why one stamp does not carry a paper the whole way. A member country asks nothing more once the mark is fixed; here, a further review by Haiti's own people still stands in the way.
This is the reason a Glasgow to Haiti route reads differently from one heading to a Convention member. An apostille issued in Glasgow for use in Haiti passes through the same first desk, for the same fee, as any other UK paper, yet a reader on this page should not treat that mark as the closing step; a second desk still has the final say.
The Glasgow → Haiti route step by step
Start with the paper. For a Scottish birth, marriage or death entry, Glasgow Registration Office at 45 John Street, Glasgow G1 1JE can print a fresh certified copy, so the one original you hold never has to travel through the post at all.
That copy, or any other UK paper carrying a genuine signature, goes next to the FCDO Legalisation Office at PO Box 6255, Milton Keynes MK10 1XX. There is no desk to visit in person; the whole job runs by post. Staff check the seal, fix the mark, and return the paper the way it came.
Once that page is back, it still needs to reach the receiving country's own mission in the UK for a further check before it counts as accepted on arrival. That step sits apart from the FCDO's own fee and timing, since a different body runs it under its own rules.
Cost & timing for this route
Milton Keynes charges £45 per paper by standard post. A registered business sending papers can use a next-day route instead for £40, cheaper as well as quicker — useful to know since this leg runs the same way no matter which country a paper is heading to.
Standard turnaround for that first leg runs up to 25 working days, plus postage each way, so plan around it if a date in Haiti matters to you. Registered businesses can cut that down to the next working day. Whatever comes after, on the receiving side, runs to its own separate timetable entirely, so start the whole process earlier than the UK figures alone would suggest.
Destination-specific requirements
What you need for an apostille for Haiti starts the same as any UK paper: a genuine document, a real signature or seal, and the standard fee for that first stage. From there the route splits, since the receiving side still runs a check of its own before a paper is treated as settled.
Keep the certified page and any later paperwork together as one set once both halves are finished, because a reader in Haiti will expect to see the whole chain rather than the FCDO mark alone. Where the paper is not written in English, a translation may need to travel with it, arranged apart from the certificate stage itself.