Apostille services in San Diego

Yes — two. You can walk documents in to our Carmel Mountain office at 10620 Treena St, Ste 230 (92131), or our Downtown office at 350 10th Ave, Ste 1000 (92101), Monday through Saturday — no appointment needed. You can also work with us entirely by mail from anywhere in San Diego County or the rest of the country.

It depends on who issued the document. California-issued records like birth and marriage certificates, diplomas, and corporate documents are apostilled by the California Secretary of State. Federal documents like FBI background checks go to the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC. We route each document to the correct authority and handle the trip for you, so nothing gets sent to the wrong office.

Often, depending on the document and the issuing authority's current schedule. Because we're local, we can take eligible California documents to the Secretary of State in person instead of waiting on the mail, which is often what a same-day or rush deadline needs. Tell us the date you're up against and we'll tell you honestly what's possible, with a flat quote up front.

All of them. Our two offices anchor Carmel Mountain (92131) and Downtown / East Village (92101), and we serve every San Diego neighborhood — La Jolla, Mira Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, Scripps Ranch, Point Loma, Hillcrest, and the rest — plus nearby cities like Chula Vista, El Cajon, Escondido, Oceanside, Carlsbad, and Poway. Walk in, or have our mobile notary come to you.

Yes. We notarize at either office or come to you anywhere in San Diego County — home, office, hospital, or care facility — and can bundle the notarization with the apostille so it's one process. Remote online notarization is available too, wherever you are.

Yes. They're two of the documents we're asked for most here. A California birth, death, or marriage certificate must be a certified copy bearing the county recorder or registrar's signature, and some counties add a County Clerk step before the Secretary of State can apostille it. We handle that county step, and walk you through which certified copy the state will accept.

No. Federal documents like an FBI background check are authenticated by the U.S. Department of State, but you don't travel there — we handle the federal route for you from San Diego, in the same order as everything else. If it also needs a certified translation or embassy legalization, we coordinate that too.

Yes. San Diego has a large military community, and service members heading overseas often need a DD-214 or other federal record apostilled. Depending on how the copy is certified, it follows the federal or state route. We confirm which applies before we file it, and our mobile notary can meet you on or near base if the document needs notarizing first.

Yes. Even though we're in San Diego, we handle apostilles from all 50 states by secure, tracked mail — routed to the correct Secretary of State (or the U.S. Department of State for federal records). You mail it to us, or in many cases we can obtain the certified copy for you, and it comes back ready to use.

Yes. Many destinations, Mexico and Spain especially, require a certified translation of the document, and sometimes of the apostille too. We coordinate the certified translation in the sequence the receiving country expects, so it doesn't hold up your filing.

It depends on the document, the issuing authority, and how fast you need it. You get a flat, all-in quote before any work begins — with no hidden fees, and no obligation.