Birth, marriage and death records
A Liverpool apostille for Syria is not the finishing move for a civil record, because Syria has not joined the Hague Convention that would make a single UK certificate sufficient on its own. What still holds true is the first leg of the journey: Liverpool Register Office, at St George's Hall, St George's Place, Liverpool L1 1JJ, can supply a fresh certified copy of a birth, marriage or death entry, so a family original never has to be posted away.
That copy, or the original itself if it is being used, then travels to the FCDO Legalisation Office for authentication. A civil record follows exactly this route regardless of destination; nothing about being a birth or marriage record changes how that office handles it, and the paperwork involved is no different from any other applicant's.
Degrees, transcripts and qualifications
A degree certificate or transcript skips the register office entirely, since it was never a civil record to begin with, and goes straight to the Legalisation Office. Its signature or seal is examined there exactly as a certified copy's would be; the document type makes no difference to how that check runs or how long it lasts.
What matters for Syria specifically holds regardless of paper type: a UK certificate on its own is not the finish line. A qualification headed there needs a further, separate arrangement through Syria's own diplomatic channel, no less than a birth certificate would, quite apart from anything the Legalisation Office itself does, and there is no shortcut available for an academic paper that a civil record does not also have anywhere in the route.
Company and legal documents
A company filing, a power of attorney or any other business paper again follows the identical route: straight to the Legalisation Office, with no detour through a register office first. A firm's contract or filing is handled no differently there than a family's birth certificate, and the same fee schedule applies to both.
Where a business paper differs is usually volume rather than method — a firm sending several documents together still pays per item and still needs the follow-up arrangement for each one individually; Syria's own requirements do not shrink for a bulk submission, no matter how many items travel in the same envelope.
What the first leg costs, whatever the paper is
An apostille issued in Liverpool for use in Syria costs the same across document types: £45 per record on the standard postal tier, or £40 on the next working day tier for a registered business. Turnaround runs up to 25 working days, and that figure already folds in postage each way rather than counting only the days spent at a desk.
None of those figures cover what comes after. The Syria-side arrangement runs on its own separate timetable, organised apart from the Legalisation Office entirely, so a sender should treat the UK window and whatever follows it as two figures, never as one combined number, and should not expect either window to shorten the other.
What happens once the UK part is finished
Once the Legalisation Office has done its part, the paper — civil record, qualification or company document alike — moves on to a further arrangement, handled through Syria's own diplomatic channel in the UK rather than continuing through any UK government office. That part sits entirely outside the apostille system, whatever prompted the original document.
A document legalisation for Syria route, whichever kind of paper started it, only counts as finished once that further arrangement is also in place. Translation, where a particular use requires it, is a distinct matter again, unrelated to either part of the process and organised on its own timeline, at its own cost, separate from both legalisation arrangements described above.