Managing the apostille and legalisation chain means that we build your document’s route from Georgia to the destination country: notarial certification, certification of the accuracy of the translation, and then an apostille or legalisation matching that country’s requirements. The core message of this page is practical truth: not every country requires an apostille — for Russia the Minsk Convention corridor applies and the document is accepted without an apostille, while for Azerbaijan exactly an apostille is required. Below we also give the exact ladder of the state fee.
From Georgia to Russia — no apostille needed
The most common mistake lies in the Russia corridor: clients request apostilles on documents that travel to Russia under the Minsk Convention and will be accepted there without any additional formality. If your document is on exactly that corridor, the cost and time of an apostille are simply eliminated — it is enough to have the notarial certifications and, where needed, the notary’s certification of the accuracy of the translation, which is an action provided for by the list of notarial acts.
The Azerbaijan direction is the opposite: only an apostille works there — without it the document will not be accepted. For other countries the decision depends on whether the destination state is a party to the Apostille Convention: for convention states an apostille suffices, while for non-parties a full legalisation is required — through diplomatic or consular channels, a longer procedure. We verify this regime in advance for every document so that the chain is built correctly from the start.