Affidavit Apostille in Liverpool

An Affidavit apostille in Liverpool is added by The Legalisation Office (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) to a statement you have already made and signed.

Affidavit Apostille

Hague Member

Document type Affidavit

Competent authority The Legalisation Office (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Standard turnaround Up to 25 working days, plus postage

Express turnaround Next working day (registered businesses only)

Information validated 18 August 2026

Complete Guide

A paper you write, not a paper you order

An affidavit only exists once you make it, which changes where the timetable really starts.

In this guide

Apostilling an Affidavit from Liverpool
Issuing body & pre-requisites for an Affidavit
Cost & turnaround
Translation & acceptance notes

Apostilling an Affidavit from Liverpool

Most papers reaching the Legalisation Office were issued by somebody else. This one was not. To apostille an Affidavit in Liverpool you have to bring the statement into being yourself: decide what it needs to say, set out the names and dates exactly as they appear on everything else in the file, and sign it. Only then does an office stage exist at all, which is why the certificate is the short and predictable end of a longer job.

Issuing body & pre-requisites for an Affidavit

The FCDO Legalisation Office at PO Box 6255, Milton Keynes MK10 1XX is a single central authority for the whole country, and it works by post. There is no counter, no appointment and no branch of it anywhere in the city. Liverpool Register Office holds civil records — births, marriages and deaths — so it can reissue those, but a statement you wrote yourself sits outside what any register keeps.

Cost & turnaround

To apostille an Affidavit in United Kingdom costs £45 / document by standard post, or £40 / document on the next-day service open to registered businesses. Turnaround is not published as a fixed figure, so build the plan around stages rather than around a promised date. The drafting stage is the one you control, and the postal stage is not, though it is usually the shorter half of the two.

Translation & acceptance notes

The legalisation of an Affidavit in Liverpool changes not a word of what the statement says, and it adds no translation of its own. Where a reader abroad needs the text in another form, that is separate work on its own timetable, and it is far better settled before the certificate is attached than after. A certificate fastened to a statement is not something anyone wants to unpick later.

Frequently Asked Questions

Affidavit apostille FAQ

Where does this errand really begin?

With the statement itself, rather than with any office. A birth or marriage record already sits in a public register, so a copy of it can be ordered whenever you like. A written statement made on oath is different: it comes into being once, for one purpose, and nobody files it for you. That is why how to apostille an Affidavit is really a question about getting the wording right before anything is signed.

What does the office charge?

Standard postal work is £45 / document, and a next-day service runs at £40 / document for registered businesses. Both figures are counted per document rather than per page. An apostille cost for an Affidavit in Liverpool is therefore a single line on the budget unless several statements are going through together, and no second official charge waits behind it on this route.

Can a lost statement simply be replaced?

Not by ordering another copy. Liverpool Register Office holds births, marriages and deaths for the city and can reissue those, but a written statement is not a civil record and no public office keeps one on your behalf. Replacing it means writing and signing the whole thing over again. That is the strongest argument for reading the wording twice before it ever leaves your hands.

Will the certificate be accepted at the other end?

That turns on the destination, and it is the one point this page cannot settle for you. Where a country is in the Hague Apostille Convention, the certificate is read as proof of origin; where it is not, a consular route applies instead. Confirm the position with the office that will receive the file before anything is posted, then plan around that answer. Everything else described here holds either way.

How It Works

Four steps to your affidavit apostille

No office visits. We handle your Liverpool affidavit remotely with real-time tracking.

Prepare your document

Obtain the original document (or a certified copy) you need to use abroad, and check whether it must be notarised first.

Confirm the requirements

Verify the document is eligible for an apostille.

Submit to The Legalisation Office

The apostille is issued by The Legalisation Office, the competent authority. The government fee is £45 / document (standard postal); £40 / document next-day (registered businesses).

Receive your apostille

The authority attaches the apostille certificate, making the document valid abroad with no further embassy legalisation.

Where to go

Where Liverpool documents are certified and apostilled

These are two different offices doing two different jobs. The local register office issues the certified copy of a Liverpool birth, marriage or death record — check its current appointment rules before going. The apostille itself comes from the FCDO Legalisation Office, the UK's single competent authority, which accepts documents by post rather than in person.

Liverpool Register Office

Certified copies of civil records (birth, marriage, death)

St George's Hall, St George's Place, Liverpool L1 1JJ

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FCDO Legalisation Office

Issues the apostille — UK-wide, by post

PO Box 6255, Milton Keynes MK10 1XX

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