Embassy legalisation for use in Vietnam
A Vietnamese office will not take an Italian paper on trust. It wants a line of signatures it can follow back to the person who signed the original, ending with a mark made by its own mission. That is what legalisation is: not a review of the content, but a series of confirmations that each signature above it is genuine. Embassy legalization for Vietnam from Milan follows exactly that shape.
What Vietnam's consular office looks for
The paper must arrive already legalised on the Italian side, with the stamp legible and the pages fastened as issued. A file that has been unstapled, rebound or photocopied after the Italian stamp is treated as new and starts again. The counter also expects one clean set per document rather than a mixed folder, which is why we lodge corporate packs as numbered files.
The Milan to Vietnam route step by step
First, certification: a private document is turned into one an Italian office can act on, while a public record already is. Second, the €16 stamp and the legalisation itself, at the Prefettura for administrative papers and at the Procura della Repubblica for notarial and judicial ones. Third, the consular signature in Italy. The order never varies, and skipping ahead costs the whole run.
Cost and timing on this corridor
Two clocks run: the Italian one, which is short and predictable, and the consular one, which depends on counter days and volume. Together they give the 10–15 business day standard, or 3–5 on the express track. On cost, the €16 stamp is fixed and the consular fee is not, so a quote for a Milan file always splits into a known part and a variable one.