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Get your Swiss document apostilled.
Any canton. Any country.

An authority abroad asks for an apostille on your Swiss diploma, birth certificate or extract? We obtain it from the competent cantonal chancellery and deliver it to your door — CHF 140 all-inclusive, from any canton, for 120+ destination countries.

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The right chancellery, every time

A Swiss apostille is issued by the state chancellery of the canton that issued the document — Geneva for a Geneva diploma, Zurich for a Zurich extract. We know each counter and its rules; you never have to travel.

Clear prices, clear deadlines

CHF 140 for the first document, CHF 120 from the second — Swiss VAT and registered delivery in Switzerland included. Standard turnaround 3–5 business days; express in 24–48 h when it truly cannot wait.

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120+ destinations covered

Hague Convention member? One apostille and your document is valid there. Non-member (UAE, Qatar, Vietnam…)? We run the full consular chain instead — same order form, we route it correctly.

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Confidential by design

Your documents travel by registered mail and are handled only for your order. Swiss data-protection law (nLPD) applies end to end.

How it works

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Order online

Tell us the document, its canton of issue and the destination country. The quote is instant; payment is by card (Stripe).

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Send us the document

Post the original (or the notarised copy, where applicable) to our Crissier office by registered mail — or drop it off.

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We obtain the apostille

We file with the competent cantonal chancellery — or the Federal Chancellery for federal documents — and track it until issued.

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Delivery to your door

Registered Swiss mail included; DHL for Europe or worldwide as an option. A scan by e-mail as soon as the apostille is affixed.

Frequently asked questions

What exactly is an apostille?
A standardised certificate under the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961 that authenticates the signature and seal on a public document, so that 120+ member states accept it without any embassy step. It is affixed by the designated authority of the country that issued the document — in Switzerland, the cantonal state chancelleries and the Federal Chancellery.
Which chancellery is competent for my document?
The one of the canton where the document was issued or where the signing officer (registrar, notary, court) is based: a Lausanne diploma goes to the Chancellerie d’État de Vaud, a Basel commercial-register extract to the Staatskanzlei Basel-Stadt. Federal documents (e.g. SEM attestations) go to the Federal Chancellery in Bern. You just tell us the canton — the routing is our job.
Do I need to send the original?
Usually yes: the apostille is a physical certificate attached to the document. When the destination accepts it, we can instead work from a notarised certified copy (CHF 140), so your original never leaves you. Registered mail both ways keeps everything traceable.
My destination country is not in the Hague Convention — what then?
Then an apostille has no effect there and the consular chain applies: chancellery legalization, then the destination’s embassy in Switzerland. Order normally and mention the country — we quote the embassy stage before you commit, or handle it via our sister service legalizations.ch.

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