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Legalization

Directorate of Consular Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration legalizes:

documents issued in the Republic of Moldova which are to be presented to the authorities in another country. Documents are legalized with a stamp confirming that the signature on the document is authentic. After the document has been legalized by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and European Integration, it is usually certified by the diplomatic mission of the country in which the document will be used.
documents which are to be presented to the authorities of the Republic of Moldova. It must be first legalised by the foreign diplomatic or consular mission of the country where the document has been issued, and thereafter by the Directorate of Consular Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs and European Integration does not apply the Apostille. These should be sought from the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Moldova.

What documents does the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration legalize?

documents issued by official authorities of the Republic of Moldova;
documents issued by the Public Services Agency, except for identity documents;
diplomas from higher education institutions, along with the confirmations of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research;
documents signed by a public notary;
civil status certificates;
court decisions:
seniority certificates issued by the National Social Insurance House;
criminal records certificates issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs;
medical certificates issued by the specialized medical centers for medical examination of emigrants and immigrants, and the National Scientific and Practical Centre of Preventive Medicine / Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS.

A list of documents to be submitted:

Application;
document to be legalized, where copies of documents, they must be authenticated by the public notary and the Ministry of Justice;
document certifying the applicant’s identity (passport or ID card);
in case of applying for legalization by proxy, power of attorney. First-level relatives - mother, father, brother, sister, husband, wife – do not need power of attorney for the submission of documents.

Consular fee

Documents issued by the authorities of the Republic of Moldova intended for use in a foreign country	Individual person - 100 lei Legal entitity - 250 lei
Documents issued by the authorities of foreign states intended for use in the Republic of Moldova	Individual person - 250 lei Legal entity - 650 lei

Directorate of Consular Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration

Address: 80 Alexei Mateevici street, Chisinau, MD – 2009
Phone: (+373 22) 788722; 0 800-90-990
E-mail: dac@mfa.gov.md; callcenter@mfa.gov.md;
Visiting hours: Monday – Friday, 8.30 – 11.45

The diplomatic and consular missions of the Republic of Moldova abroad legalize documents issued by authorities of the state of residence or with their participation and intended for use in Moldova, previously legalized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or other empowered official authority of the state of residence.

The diplomatic and consular missions legalize:

notary acts and decisions of the court (attorneys, declarations, applications, contracts, wills, copies of documents, decisions of the courts, etc.);
acts of civil status and registration of companies (certificates: birth, marriage, divorce, death, marital status, change of family name and / or name; extracts: after act of birth, after act of marriage, after act of divorce, after act of death; notices: on change of name or family name, on the cancellation, completion and / or rectification of the act of civil status; certificate of registration of business etc.);
acts of studies (diploma of degree, analytical syllabuses as a supplement to diploma, diploma of baccalaureate, supplement to the diploma of baccalaureate);
criminal records.

Documents which cannot be legalized in original:

employment certificates,
military service records,
identification cards,
documents produced in Moldova and removed or sent by international mail abroad, without being certified under the legislation,
consular officer has doubts concerning the adequacy of documents to be legalized with the law of the state of residence.

List of countries and documents recognition procedures

The following list includes the countries for which bilateral and multilateral treaties on mutual recognition of official documents apply. These treaties relate to recognition of documents issued by the authorities of these countries to be used in Moldova, and respectively of documents issued by Moldovan authorities to be used in these countries.

The documents issued by the authorities of the countries not listed below and the documents issued by Moldovan authorities to be used in those countries are recognized only after consular legalization.

Last update: February 2, 2017

No	Country (common name)	The documents are recognised without any legalisation or Apostille in accordance with existing treaties	The documents are recognised with an Apostille provided in accordance with the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961
1	Albania		■
2	Andorra		■
3	Antigua and Barbuda		■
4	Argentina		■
5	Armenia	■¹³	□¹
6	Australia		■
7	Austria		■
8	Azerbaidjan	■⁴^, 13	□¹
9	Bahamas		■
10	Bahrain		■
11	Barbados		■
12	Belarus	■¹³	□¹
13	Belgium		■
14	Belize		■
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina		■
16	Botswana		■
17	Brazil		■
18	Brunei Darussalam		■
19	Bulgaria		■
20	Burundi		■
21	Cape Verde		■
22	Chile		■
23	China		□³
24	Colombia		■
25	Cook Islands		■
26	Costa Rica		■
27	Croatia		■
28	Cyprus		■
29	Czech Republic	■⁵	□¹
30	Denmark		■
31	Dominica		■
32	Dominican Republic		■
33	Ecuador		■
34	El Salvador		■
35	Estonia		■
36	Fiji		■
37	Finland		■
38	France		■
39	Georgia	■¹³	□¹
40	Germany		□²
41	Greece		■
42	Grenada		■
43	Guatemala		■ from 18.09.2017
44	Honduras		■
45	Hungary	■⁶	□¹
46	Iceland		■
47	India		■
48	Ireland		■
49	Israel		■
50	Italy		■
51	Japan		■
52	Kazahstan	■¹³	□¹
53	Korea Republic		■
54	Kyrgyzstan	■¹³	□¹
55	Latvia	■⁷	□¹
56	Lesotho		■
57	Liberia		■
58	Liechtenstein		■
59	Lithuania	■⁸	□¹
60	Luxemburg		■
61	Macedonia		■
62	Malawi		■
63	Malta		■
64	Marshall Islands		■
65	Mauritius		■
66	Mexico		■

67	Monaco		■
68	Mongolia		■
69	Montenegro		■
70	Morocco		■

71	Namibia		■
72	Netherlands		■
73	New Zeeland		■
74	Nicaragua		■
75	Niue		■
76	Norway		■
77	Oman		■
78	Panama		■
79	Paraguay		■
80	Peru		■
81	Poland		■
82	Portugal		■
83	Romania	■⁹	□¹
84	Russia	■¹⁰^,¹³	□¹
85	Saint Kitts and Nevis		■
86	Saint Lucia		■
87	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines		■
88	Samoa		■
89	San Marino		■
90	Sao Tome and Principe		■
91	Serbia		■
92	Seychelles		■
93	Slovakia	■¹¹	□¹
94	Slovenia		■
95	South Africa		■
96	Spain		■
97	Suriname		■
98	Swaziland		■
99	Sweden		■
100	Switzerland		■
101	Tajikistan	■¹³	□¹
102	Tonga		■
103	Trinidad and Tobago		■
104	Turkey		■
105	Turkmenistan	■¹³
106	Ukraine	■¹²^,¹³	□¹
107	United Kingdom		■
108	Uruguay		■
109	USA		■
110	Uzbekistan	■¹³	□¹
111	Vanuatu		■
112	Venezuela		■

Legend: ■ – is applicable; □ – is not applicable (see Note 1 and 2) or applicable to certain territories (see Note 3).

Notes:

¹ In accordance with Art. 8 of the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents (in force for the Republic of Moldova from 16.03.2007), When a treaty, convention or agreement between two or more Contracting States contains provisions which subject the certification of a signature, seal or stamp to certain formalities, the present Convention will only override such provisions if those formalities are more rigorous than the formality referred to in this Convention.
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² Until the withdrawal of the objection raised by Germany to the accession of the Republic of Moldova to the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, this Convention will not be applicable in relations between the Republic of Moldova and Federal Republic of Germany.
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³ The Hague Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documentsapplies only to the following Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China: Hong Kong and Macao.
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⁴ The legalisation between Moldova and Azerbaijan is abolished in accordance with Article 13 paragraph 1 of the Treaty between the Republic of Moldova an the Republic of Azerbaijan on legal assistance and legal relations in civil, family and criminal matters, concluded in Baku on 26.10.2004, in force from 12.02.2005.

⁵ The legalisation between Moldova and the Czech Republic is abolished in accordance with Article 11 paragraph 1 of the Treaty between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic on mutual legal assistance and legal relations in civil, family and criminal matters, concluded in Moscow on 12.08.1982, in force between Moldova and the Czech Republic by succession from 26.08.2005.

⁶ The legalisation between Moldova and Hungary is abolished in accordance with Article 14 paragraph 1 of the Treaty between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Hungarian Popular Republic on mutual legal assistance in civil, family and criminal matters, concluded in Moscow on 15.07.1958, in force between Moldova and Hungary by succession from 19.10.2007.

⁷ The legalisation between Moldova and Latvia is abolished in accordance with Article 13 paragraph 1 of the Treaty between the Republic of Moldova and the Republic of Latvia on legal assistance and legal relations in civil, family and criminal matters, concluded in Riga on 14.04.1993, in force from 18.06.1996.

⁸ The legalisation between Moldova and Lithuania is abolished in accordance with Article 13 paragraph 1 of the Treaty between the Republic of Moldova and the Republic of Lithuania on legal assistance in civil, family and criminal matters, concluded in Chisinau on 09.02.1993, in force from 18.02.1995.

⁹ The legalisation between Moldova and Romania is abolished in accordance with Article 13 paragraph 1 of the Treaty between the Republic of Moldova and Romania on legal assistance in civil, family and criminal matters, concluded in Chisinau on 06.07.1996, in force from 20.03.1998.

¹⁰ The legalisation between Moldova and Russia is abolished in accordance with Article 13 paragraph 1 of the Treaty between the Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation on legal assistance and legal relations in civil, family and criminal matters, concluded in Moscow on 25.02.1993, in force from 26.01.1995.

¹¹ The legalisation between Moldova and Slovakia is abolished in accordance with Article 11 paragraph 1 of the Treaty between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic on mutual legal assistance and legal relations in civil, family and criminal matters, concluded in Moscow on 12.08.1982, in force between Moldova and Slovakia by succession from 26.05.2006.

¹² The legalisation between Moldova and Ukraine is abolished in accordance with Article 15 paragraph 1 din Treaty between the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine on legal assistance and legal relations in civil and criminal matters, concluded in Kiev on 13.12.1993, in force from 24.04.1995.

¹³ The legalisation between Moldova with other CIS member countries and Georgia is abolished in accordance with Article 13 paragraph 1 of the Convention on legal assistance and legal relations in civil, family and criminal matters, concluded in Minsk on 22.01.1993. In force between Moldova and Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine from 26.03.1996, Azerbaijan, Georgia from 11.07.1996, Turkmenistan from 19.02.1998.
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