Embassy legalisation for use in Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau takes the full consular chain, so a paper leaving Glasgow gathers three marks before it is finished. Anyone setting out to legalize documents for Guinea-Bissau is building a ladder rather than ticking off a list, because every rung is fixed to the rung below it and not one of them stands on its own.
Guinea-Bissau consular requirements
The closing mark belongs to the embassy or consulate acting for Guinea-Bissau, and it carries a consular fee. That mark does not speak to your document. It speaks to the British one beneath it, agreeing that the office which signed is the office the mission expects to see on paper from this country.
That is what makes the trouble worth taking. A desk abroad is handed one signature it meets often, instead of a Scottish register's mark it has no way to place. Embassy legalization for Guinea-Bissau from Glasgow buys recognition rather than approval, and the difference matters when something goes wrong.
The Glasgow → Guinea-Bissau route step by step
A signature on the paper is checked locally. The Legalisation Office (FCDO) then vouches for that check, dealing with the public by post and keeping no counter open for callers. Last of all, the mission adds its own mark on top of the British one, and the paper is done.
The sheet that climbs the ladder should be one you can be without for a while. For a Scottish birth, marriage or death entry, Glasgow Registration Office prints a fresh certified extract on request, and that extract carries the same standing as the one folded in your own drawer at home.
Cost & timing for this route
The British desk takes around £45 for each document it handles, and a consular fee follows at the far end. Time is quoted the same way for everybody: 7–10 business days on the standard lane, 2–3 business days on the express one. Neither window takes in an envelope, and there are envelopes between every pair of rungs.
What the ladder cannot fix
Nothing in the wording of your paper. Three marks confirm where a signature came from, and not one of them asks whether the document answers the question somebody abroad has put. So the work worth doing before any of this begins is picking the right paper, in the right version, and sending that one.