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 West Palm Beach from our West Palm Beach office, by appointment.
For the 11,500 people who call West Palm Beach 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 West Palm Beach residents, that means one handoff — at your door or at our office — and the apostilled original back in your hands on a defined timeline.
Teaching visas for Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, Spain, and the UAE all demand an apostilled diploma — far and away our most frequent diploma request.
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.
West Palm Beach is home to roughly 120,000 residents. West Palm Beach is our home base — our office sits at 500 S Australian Ave, Suite 600, just off Okeechobee Boulevard at the edge of downtown. Residents book a time and hand off their documents at the office — same-day and next-day appointments are usually available.
We serve clients throughout West Palm Beach's neighborhoods including Downtown, Northwood Village, El Cid, Flamingo Park, Grandview Heights, and SoSo (South of Southern), as well as nearby communities such as Palm Beach, Riviera Beach, and Lake Clarke Shores. Landmarks like Clematis Street, Rosemary Square, and the Norton Museum of Art put us on familiar ground — this is home-turf service, not a mail-order processor.
Our office is right here on Australian Avenue — book an appointment and hand the documents off in minutes. We also handle diploma apostilles for clients in nearby Boca Raton, and Boynton Beach.
Before we schedule anything for West Palm Beach, this is the part worth reading: 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 0 minutes — our office is on Australian Avenue from West Palm Beach — 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 West Palm Beach is the county seat and its largest city, with the courthouse, the consular traffic, and the highest concentration of immigration attorneys in the county, the diplomas we apostille here are most often bound for Haiti, Cuba, Colombia, and Brazil. 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 West Palm Beach clients the most time.
Yes — we serve every city in Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach 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.
Right in the neighborhood — 500 S Australian Ave, Suite 600, on Australian Avenue itself. Visits are by appointment; call and we will usually have a same-day slot.
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.
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.
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.
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 West Palm Beach — call and we'll confirm your window within one business hour.
