Has anybody found that an Apostille was needed for US documents (Birth, Marriage, etc.) in the UK at any level (NHS, kid's school, motor vehicles, work, citizenship, etc.)?
An Apostille is a certification of official documents by an issuing authority in countries like the US & UK who have signed the The Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents. The Apostille is done because a foreign country may not immediately trust the authorities of a county & state they've never heard of.
http://www.state.gov/m/a/auth/c16921.htmIt's not too much of a pain for me to do. I just need to send the documents to the Secretaries of State for each relevant state and pay $5-$10 per doc. However if nobody on this board has ever been asked for this...