Teach English overseas, accept a foreign job, start graduate school abroad. We handle the notarization requirements. $190 per document, back in 5 business days. Serving Palm Beach Gardens from our West Palm Beach office, by appointment.
For the 112,000 people who call Palm Beach Gardens home, getting a diploma accepted abroad comes down to one certification: the Florida apostille. No foreign employer, university, or licensing board takes a U.S. diploma at face value — they want it apostilled. Education documents also happen to be the most error-prone category in Florida's apostille system, because a diploma isn't a public record: the Florida Department of State won't accept it until it has been correctly notarized first.
This step is where most DIY attempts collapse. Florida requires the registrar or records custodian to sign a sworn statement before a Florida notary confirming the copy is genuine — get it wrong and the state bounces the filing. We know precisely what the state wants, we arrange the notarization when your school hasn't, and we file in person. $190 per document and 5 business days once your paperwork is apostille-ready. For Palm Beach Gardens residents, that means one handoff — at your door or at our office — and the apostilled original back in your hands on a defined timeline.
Across the Gulf states, Europe, and Asia, employers and visa authorities expect apostilled degrees inside the employment package.
Admission and credential evaluation at foreign universities call for apostilled diplomas and transcripts.
Foreign licensing boards for nurses, engineers, teachers, and accountants require credentials submitted with apostilles.
Foreign equivalency boards — and certain immigration paths — want apostilled academic records before they'll issue an evaluation.
Palm Beach Gardens is home to roughly 60,000 residents. Palm Beach Gardens' corporate corridor along PGA Boulevard and its international professional community generate steady apostille demand — corporate documents, diplomas, and background checks heading to Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
We serve clients throughout Palm Beach Gardens' neighborhoods including PGA National, Evergrene, Mirasol, Alton, and BallenIsles, as well as nearby communities such as North Palm Beach, Juno Beach, and Lake Park. Landmarks like PGA National Resort, The Gardens Mall, and Downtown Palm Beach Gardens put us on familiar ground — this is home-turf service, not a mail-order processor.
From Palm Beach Gardens, our West Palm Beach office is about 20 minutes away — and appointments are usually available same day or next day. We also handle diploma apostilles for clients in nearby Riviera Beach, Boca Raton, and West Palm Beach.
Most delays start here, so it is worth two minutes for Palm Beach Gardens clients: Diplomas and transcripts are private institutional documents, so Florida requires a notarization before apostille. The accepted route: the school's registrar or records custodian signs a notarized statement (before a Florida notary) attesting that the attached copy is a true copy of the original. Many Florida universities — including Palm Beach College, FAU, NSU, and FIU — have registrar offices familiar with this request; sealed official transcripts often carry the registrar's signature that can be notarized on the spot.
If your school is out of state, the notarization generally must happen in the school's state and the apostille comes from that state — with some workarounds we can explain by phone. High school diplomas follow the same pattern through the school district. And if you hit a wall with a registrar, call us: we've untangled this for hundreds of graduates and know the practical routes for Palm Beach-area institutions. When your diploma is ready, bring it to our office — about 20 minutes from Palm Beach Gardens — appointments usually available same day or next day.
Book an appointment at our West Palm Beach office — we confirm your time within one business hour, with same-day and next-day slots usually available.
Before anything is filed, we vet the document itself — the certification, the notarization, and what your destination country expects — so rejections don't happen.
We hand-carry your paperwork to the Florida Department of State counter ourselves. No mail-in pile, no batch processing, nothing left to chance.
Your apostilled originals come back in 5 business days, ready for office pickup or local return delivery — and you get a call the minute they arrive.
One flat number, nothing bolted on afterward. What we quote is what you pay, and the Florida Department of State's filing fee is already inside it.
Every price covers the $10-per-document Florida Department of State filing fee, in-person submission at the state counter, and complete document handling. If your paperwork needs notarization first, we offer that as a separate add-on service.
Grab the Apostille and Notarial Certificate Request Form from the Florida Department of State here. There's no need to fill it out ahead of time — we'll complete it with you at your appointment.
Because Palm Beach Gardens is a corporate and medical hub around PGA Boulevard with a growing Latin American professional population, the diplomas we apostille here are most often bound for Canada, the United Kingdom, Colombia, and Venezuela. That matters practically: each destination has its own quirks — whether a certified translation is required, whether the receiving registry wants a recently issued copy, and whether the apostille needs to be translated along with the document.
We handle those details as part of the job rather than leaving you to discover them at a consulate window. Tell us the destination country when you call and we’ll confirm exactly what your diploma needs before anything is filed — including whether a translation should be ordered before or after the apostille, which is the sequencing mistake that costs Palm Beach Gardens clients the most time.
Yes — we serve every city in Palm Beach County, Palm Beach Gardens included. Service is by appointment at our West Palm Beach office at 500 S Australian Ave, Suite 600; requests before 2 PM are routinely scheduled the same day, and every request gets a confirmed time within one business hour.
We're at 500 S Australian Ave, Suite 600 in West Palm Beach — about 20 minutes from Palm Beach Gardens. Office visits are by appointment, and same-day slots are usually available.
Drop-off to return runs 5 business days anywhere in the county — the identical in-person filing schedule for every city we serve. Facing a tighter deadline? Call and we'll give you a straight answer about what rush handling can realistically deliver.
Ask the registrar's office for a notarized true-copy certification of the diploma, or an official transcript carrying the registrar's notarized signature — schools process these requests all the time. From there it's ours: review, in-person filing, and your documents back in 5 business days.
As a rule, the notarization and the apostille both have to happen in the school's home state. We'll verify what applies to your case and direct you to the correct office — and if there's a legitimate Florida-side path, we'll say so.
It varies by destination: Korean and Japanese teaching programs generally ask for the diploma, universities and credential evaluators lean toward transcripts, and Gulf-state employers frequently request both. Consult your checklist — or read it to us and we'll decode it.
Yes — same notarized true-copy route, through the school or the school district's records office. Palm Beach County Public Schools' records department processes these requests.
Yes — that's how Florida treats education documents. A school official signs a true-copy statement in front of a Florida notary, and that notarized document is what receives the apostille. We arrange this step as a matter of routine.
Every Florida apostille is issued by this state office.
Hague Apostille ConventionThe 1961 convention's full text and its member countries.
U.S. Department of State — Office of AuthenticationsWhere FBI checks and other federal documents get authenticated.
One flat rate, volume bundles, and the few things that add cost.
Processing timeThe 5-day timeline vs the mail-in queue.
Same-day & rush serviceA straight answer on what a tight deadline allows.
Book an appointmentBy appointment at 500 S Australian Ave, Suite 600.
Same-day appointments available for Palm Beach Gardens — call and we'll confirm your window within one business hour.
