The following 127 countries and regions are members of the Hague Apostille Convention.

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) is the authority of apostille and legalization authority in China. The Chinese MoFA will not accept the application for legalization, in case of the document to be used in Hague Apostille Convention Countries.

Please notice that India is an exception.

In accordance with Article 12 of the Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents 1961, the Republic of India objects to the accession of [the] People’s Republic of China to the Convention.








AAlbania
GreeceOOman

Andorra
GrenadaPPakistan

Antigua and Barbuda
Guatemala
Palau

Argentina
Guyana
Panama

ArmeniaHHonduras
Paraguay

Australia
Hong Kong
Peru

Austria
Hungary
Philippines

AzerbaijanIIceland
Poland
BBahamas
India
Portugal

Bahrain
IndonesiaRRomania

Barbados
Ireland
Russia

Belarus
IsraelSSaint Kitts and Nevis

Belgium
Italy
Saint Lucia

BelizeJJamaica
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Bolivia
Japan
Samoa


Bosnia and Herzegovina
KKazakhstan
San Marino

Botswana
Kosovo
Sao Tome and Principe

Brazil
Kyrgyzstan
Saudi Arabia

BruneiLLatvia
Senegal

Bulgaria
Lesotho
Serbia

Burundi
Liberia
Seychelles
CCabo Verde
Liechtenstein
Singapore

Chile
Lithuania
Slovakia

China
Luxembourg
Slovenia

ColombiaMMacau
South Africa

Cook Islands
Macedonia
South Korea

Costa Rica
Malawi
Spain

Croatia
Malta
Suriname

Cyprus
Marshall Islands
Swaziland

Czech Republic
Mauritius
Sweden
DDenmark
Mexico
Switzerland

Dominica
MoldovaTTajikistan

Dominican Republic
Monaco
Tonga
EEcuador
Mongolia
Trinidad and Tobago

El Salvador
Montenegro
Tunisia

EstoniaNNamibia
Turkey

Eswatini
NetherlandsUUkraine
FFiji
New Zealand
United Kingdom

Finland
Nicaragua
United States

France
Niue
Uruguay
GGeorgia
North Macedonia
Uzbekistan

Germany
NorwayVVanuatu





Venezuela


The following countries below are NOT members of the Apostille Convention and will require a legalization or authentification…

AfghanistanAlgeriaAngola 

BangladeshBenin, Burkina FasoBurma Myanmar, Burma

CambodiaCameroonCanada, Congo RepublicCongo DemocraticIvory CoastCuba

EgyptEritreaEthiopia

Ghana,  Guinea

Haiti,

IranIraq

Jordan

KenyaKuwait

LaosLebanonLibya

MacedoniaMadagascarMalaysiaMaliMauritaniaMoroccoMozambiqueMyanmar

NepalNigerNigeria

Palestine

Qatar

Rwanda

Sierra Leone,  Sri LankaSudanSyria

TaiwanTanzaniaTogoThailand, Turkmenistan

UAE (United Arab Emirates)Uganda,

VietnamYemen

ZambiaZimbabwe