Embassy legalisation for use in Thailand
Thailand asks for a chain, not a single stamp. An Italian authority legalises the signature on the paper, and Thailand's mission in Italy then legalises that authority's act. The two together are what makes a Bari document usable in front of a Thai office; either alone is incomplete. This is why embassy attestation for Thailand takes weeks rather than an afternoon — two separate desks have to touch the same file in sequence.
Thailand consular requirements
The mission's checks are practical. The document has to be the original or a certified copy, the Italian stamp has to be present and readable, and the tax stamp has to be paid. Where the file will be read in Thai, the sworn translation belongs in the same package. Private instruments — powers of attorney, corporate resolutions — pass a notary or certifying officer before the Italian stage, because the state legalises a signature it can identify.
The Bari to Thailand route step by step
Start at the issuing office in Bari and finish at the consular desk. The record is released as an original. The Prefettura or the Procura della Repubblica legalises it and a €16 tax stamp is fixed to each document. Thailand's embassy or consulate in Italy applies the consular stamp and collects its fee. From there the file goes to whoever asked for it in Thailand, and nothing further is added in Italy.
Cost and timing for this route
Two fees and two clocks. The €16 marca da bollo is the Italian charge per document, with exemptions for some records, and the consular fee belongs to the mission, where an official fee applies. The standard window is 10–15 business days and the express window 3–5 business days, both measured at the desks rather than door to door. Document legalization for Thailand from a southern city therefore lives or dies on postal planning.
What Thailand expects to see
A Thai office wants a file that explains itself: the original record, the Italian stamp, the consular stamp, and a Thai translation where the language matters. Bundles are read as a whole, so a missing tax stamp on one sheet holds up the rest. Where several papers are going the same way — a birth record, a marriage record, a company extract — sending them as one package saves a full cycle of waiting.