Apostille vs. Embassy legalisation for Togo
Most UK papers only ever need one mark from the FCDO Legalisation Office and nothing further gets asked. A paper going to Togo works differently: after Milton Keynes has done its part, a second body still has to look it over before it counts as usable there. Document legalisation for Togo is really that pairing — one office confirming the paper is genuine, then another confirming it can be used — rather than a single pass.
None of this touches how the Glasgow side of the job runs. Your paper still travels to the same office, for the same fee, as anyone else in the country sending a UK document abroad. What differs for Togo shows up afterwards: the paper is not finished the moment it comes back with a certificate attached.
Togo's Hague status & what it means
Being part of the Hague Convention since 1965 is why the UK can issue a mark that most receiving countries take at face value. Togo does not sit inside that same circle, so the shortcut a Hague member enjoys is not available on this route. Where a member country stops needing anything further once its mark lands, a Togo-bound paper still has a second desk to satisfy.
That gap is the whole reason a page about Glasgow and Togo cannot read like one written for a Hague member. An apostille issued in Glasgow for use in Togo starts at the same first desk, for the same fee, as any other UK paper. Reading that as the end of the road, though, is exactly how a paper ends up sent back for a missing second check.
The Glasgow → Togo route step by step
Begin with the paper. A Scottish birth, marriage or death entry can be replaced with a fresh certified copy from Glasgow Registration Office at 45 John Street, Glasgow G1 1JE, so your only original never has to leave the house.
That copy, or any other genuine UK paper, then travels to the FCDO Legalisation Office at PO Box 6255, Milton Keynes MK10 1XX. Nothing about this stage happens over a counter; it is entirely a postal process. The office checks the seal, fixes its certificate, and sends the paper back the way it came.
From there, the paper still has to reach the receiving country's own mission in the UK for a further look before it is treated as ready. That part of the route sits apart from the FCDO's own fee and timing, run instead by a separate authority under its own schedule.
Cost & timing for this route
Milton Keynes asks £45 per paper for standard post, or £40 for a registered business using the faster next-day option — cheaper as well as quicker, and worth knowing since this part of the job is identical whichever country the paper is finally headed for.
Give the standard route up to 25 working days, plus postage each way, when a Togo deadline matters. Registered businesses can shrink that first stage to the next working day instead. Whatever comes after, at the receiving desk, runs to a timetable of its own that these figures do not cover, so start the whole process earlier than the UK numbers alone suggest.
Destination-specific requirements
What you need for an apostille for Togo begins exactly like any UK paper: a genuine document, a real signature or seal, and the standard fee for the first stage. The path forks after that, since the receiving side still runs a review of its own before the paper counts as settled.
Once both halves are done, keep the certificate and any later paperwork together as a single set, since an office in Togo will look for the full chain rather than the FCDO mark by itself. If the paper is not written in English, a translation may still need to travel alongside it, handled apart from the certificate work itself.