Apostilled documents in London for use in Senegal

There is no walk-in desk for a London apostille for Senegal — the slip arrives through your letterbox, and only one city address is part of the job.

London → Senegal

Hague Members

Destination Senegal

Destination status Hague Convention member

Issued by The Legalisation Office (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Standard turnaround Up to 25 working days, plus postage

Information validated 18 August 2026

Complete Guide

The city end of a route to Senegal

Which part of this job has an address you can walk to, which part is a post box, and why that shapes your plan.

In this guide

The mark has no address you can visit
What is genuinely local to you
One stamp, then the envelope home
Planning a job that happens in envelopes

The mark has no address you can visit

It surprises people that the stamp itself has no shopfront anywhere. The Legalisation Office issues every British slip from PO Box 6255, Milton Keynes MK10 1XX, and it deals with senders through the post rather than across a desk. There is no queue to join and no slot to book, so nothing in this route depends on your diary.

What is genuinely local to you

The local part is the paper. Westminster Register Office at 317 Harrow Road, London W9 3RJ issues fresh certified copies of birth, marriage and death records, and that copy is the sheet you should let travel. The certificate in your own drawer stays with you, which matters because a lost civil record is replaced only by starting again.

For anything that is not a civil record, the local end is wherever that paper already lives: a school office, a company's own files, a solicitor's drawer, a court. Collect the signed version from there and stop. None of those places issue the slip, and none of them need to know where the paper is going next.

One stamp, then the envelope home

Senegal joined the Hague Convention in 2023, so this corridor takes a single stamp. Document legalisation for Senegal is complete once the slip is attached, and an apostille from United Kingdom to Senegal is not followed by a consular stage anywhere. The whole job therefore lives inside the British postal system from the day you begin it.

Planning a job that happens in envelopes

Because every step is postal, the days to count are the days out, the office's own line, and the days back. The published charge is £45 per document by post, or £40 per document on the next-day line for a registered business. That figure buys the mark itself and not the travelling either side of it.

So what you need for an apostille for Senegal is an address the office can reply to, a signed public version of each paper, and the charge for each one. There is nowhere to turn up in person and nothing to hand over by hand. That makes this an easy job to run from a desk, or from another country entirely.

Frequently Asked Questions

London → Senegal apostille FAQ

Where in the city do I take the paper?

Nowhere, and that catches people out. The Legalisation Office works from a post box in Milton Keynes and marks papers for the whole country, so there is no city counter and no appointment to book. The one address that matters near you is Westminster Register Office at 317 Harrow Road, and only if your paper is a civil record. Everything after that step travels in an envelope.

Does living in the capital change the route or the charge?

It changes neither. A single office issues every British slip, whether the sender lives a mile from it or two hundred, and the published charge is the same from any address. What your postcode does affect is the time an envelope spends in transit, and that is usually a day either way. Treat this as a national route that happens to start where you live.

Is a London apostille for Senegal enough on its own?

It is enough on its own. Senegal came into the Hague Convention in 2023, so the British slip is taken there without a consular stamp above it. That makes this a one-office job: the paper leaves you once and comes back finished. The common mistake is booking a consular appointment out of habit, when on this corridor there is nothing for one to do.

How do I know the right sheet reached the right place?

This is a postal route from end to end, so a tracked envelope is the sensible way to send anything you would struggle to replace. There is no counter where you could hand it over and watch. That is a second reason to send a fresh certified copy of a civil record rather than the certificate you own. If a copy goes astray you order another, which is a small setback rather than a large one.

Why is the marking office not in the city at all?

Because the mark is a national one rather than a local service. Britain gives the work to one office so that every slip is issued the same way, whatever part of the country the paper came from. Counters in each city would produce the opposite of that. The address being a post box rather than a building is unusual, but it is genuinely how the route is built.

How It Works

Four steps to your Senegal-ready apostille

No office visits, no queues. The entire process is handled remotely and you track every step in real time.

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 London documents are certified and apostilled

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

Westminster Register Office

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

317 Harrow Road, London W9 3RJ

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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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