Apostille, Towards A Simpler Legalization Process

From August 30^th of 2016, the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents, commonly known as the "Apostille Convention", and which changes the legalization process of foreign public documents, will enter into force in Chile. This treaty was signed on October 5^th, 1961, and on December 2015 Chile completed the procedures to ratify it.

In order to enforce this convention in Chile, Law No. 20,711 was enacted on January 2014, and Administrative Regulation 81/2015, the regulation of the law, was enacted in November 2015.

What is the apostille?

The apostille is a certification which simplifies the procedure to certify the authenticity of foreign public documents, substituting the current multi-stage legalization process with a single certification, called an apostille.