Legally, a document issued in Graubünden falls under State Chancellery in Chur. In practice our standard route frees you from that counter: a notarized certified copy is made from your upload and the apostille goes on it — a copy suffices, whatever the canton. The original only enters the picture if your destination expressly requires the apostille on the original.
Order an apostille →Upload a PDF or photo; a notary establishes the certified true copy (included) and that copy receives the apostille — processed through our Vaud office. Nothing to post, and identical turnaround whether the document comes from Graubünden or anywhere else.
Some authorities insist the apostille sit on the original issued in Graubünden: we then file with State Chancellery in Chur. Send us the original by registered mail after ordering (address confirmed by e-mail) — it comes back apostilled.
Criminal records and other federal documents belong to the Federal Chancellery in Berne, not to Chur. Tick «federal document» in the form — we route it.
the canton of Graubünden is the only trilingual canton in Switzerland: German, Romansh and Italian are all official here. In practice most documents are issued in German, but Italian is available and is worth asking for when the file is going to Italy. Romansh spellings are the other thing to watch — engraving them into a foreign register goes wrong if nobody checks the accents.
Graubünden covers more territory than any other canton and the valleys are far apart, but none of that changes the route: the state chancellery in Chur apostilles for the whole canton, whether the document came from Davos, the Engadine or the Italian-speaking south.