If you plan to live abroad, whether for professional or personal reasons, you will need your documents to be recognized in your destination country. The Hague Apostille Convention, a treaty signed by 112 countries, aims to simplify the mutual recognition of these documents between the signatory countries of the treaty.

The Convention is for Public Acts drawn up and presented in one of the signatory countries. Thus, a document issued by the United States must be apostilled in that country and only then translated into the destination country's language by an authorized professional. Likewise, for a Brazilian document to be certified, an authorized notary public must apostille it. When necessary, the translation can occur by a sworn translator.

The apostille will contain a printed copy, which will be attached to the document, and an electronic copy that will remain registered in a specific system and be available to national and foreign authorities for control purposes.