Embassy legalisation for use in Ghana
Ghana takes the full consular chain, so a paper leaving Glasgow collects three marks before it is done. The order is notarisation, the Legalisation Office (FCDO), and then the embassy or consulate acting for Ghana. Anyone setting out to legalize documents for Ghana is dealing with a sequence, since each desk works from what the one before it left behind.
Ghana consular requirements
The closing mark comes from the embassy or consulate acting for Ghana, and it carries a consular fee. That fee belongs to the mission to set, so it does not sit alongside the British figure on any page written here. What can be said plainly is that the charge exists and that it lands at the far end of the run.
Treating it as a rounding error is the usual mistake. A budget that names around £45 and stops there has described the British stage only, and embassy attestation for Ghana is a separate transaction at a separate desk with a charge of its own.
The Glasgow → Ghana route step by step
A signature on the paper is checked locally. The Legalisation Office (FCDO) then vouches for that check, working by post from PO Box 6255, Milton Keynes MK10 1XX and keeping no counter for callers. The mission acting for Ghana adds the last mark to what the British desk has already signed.
Where a birth, marriage or death entry belongs in the set, Glasgow Registration Office issues a fresh certified extract of the Scottish record, so the sheet you keep at home never joins the journey. Papers of other kinds come from whichever body holds them: a court, an awarding body, or a company's own record keeper.
Cost & timing for this route
Around £45 goes to the Legalisation Office for each document, and the mission adds its consular fee behind that. Standard handling is quoted at 7–10 business days and the express lane at 2–3 business days, measured at the desks rather than door to door. Document legalization for Ghana therefore holds one line you can fix and several you can only estimate.
Where the open line matters most
On a tight deadline, and on a thick folder. A charge nobody has quoted is easy to absorb once. Multiplied across a stack of papers it becomes the item that moves a budget, and it arrives at the stage furthest from your control. The safest plan names the British figure exactly, counts the sheets honestly, and leaves the consular line marked as still to be settled.