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[marliesue]

Hey!
I am still in the US heading down to GDL in a week and still am not sure about this process, every website seems to say different things (including the sticky on this website)


So far I think I need my birth certificate, TESOL cert and diploma apostilled. However do I need to get this done to the originals or copies? When I brought it up to the notary in my town he had never heard of it so didnt know what to do so that I could send it off to the state of Maine-
any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
~marlie

[TheLongWayHome]

Might be good if someone could post immigration's requirements for the visa process in GDL so you know what to get apostilled. I only had to get my tefl cert apostilled (and a translation done) to work in SLP but that was 5 years ago, and it differs from state to state.

[ls650]

I only needed my degree and my TEFL certificate legalized (apostilled) along with translations. As I recall I had to provide a photocopy of my birth certificate but NOT a translation or an apostille.

Isn't this usually done by the Secretary of State office in each of the 50 states? (As a Canadian I had to have my docs legalized by the Mexican Consulate so it was a different process.)

[geaaronson]

I got my two diplomas apostilled by the Secretary of State in Georgia. I initially went to my bank, a credit union, and had one of the bank tellers, a notary public also, put her seal and name to a copy of my certificate, which I brought to the Secretary of state`s office, where they had her signature on their database. I paid $4 for each of the two certified copies to be apostilled by the clerk in the Secretary of State`s office.
I brought this to the immigration office in Merida, Yucatan, where they told me that I needed to have an official translatiion by a Mexican translator, certified by the mexican government to do this kind of work, to translate the diplomas into spanish. That cost me 250 pesos in 2006. Went back to immigration and gave them the apostilled copy and translation. (I made copies of both first for my own records.) I did not need an apostilled birth certificate or any other apostilled material other than the two diplomas. I did not have a TEFL certificate at that time, (not until 2 years later) and immigration gave me full clearance.

[Tretyakovskii]

[esl4everever]

I feel obligated to say -

That I study this stuff on a regular basis.
I constantly am in contact with the Mexican consulate.

I have sat across the table from the same nice woman at the Mexican consulate many times at the San Francisco office.


- people need to have the ORIGINAL degree from your university certified with an apostle.
- your ORIGINAL birth certificate needs to be certified with an apostle.


I know these documents already have a state certified seal but they also in fact need to be certified with a department of state apostle.
And please note people who noterize documents generally don't know these things.

[Tretyakovskii]

[Samantha]

Esl4..... the Consulates north of Mexico rarely are on the same page as Immigration in your area of Mexico. ("your" meaning, any). In other words, they are not exactly Immigration, and they are not exactly Aduana (Customs).

[MarkM]

[j_nmi_rutledge]

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[donato]

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[j_nmi_rutledge]

hey thanks donato,

that'a music to my ears!