Public documents issued by Slovak authorities need either an apostille or a higher level of verification in the form of consular superlegalisation. No higher verification is needed for documents to be used in the Czech Republic.
If you are planning to leave Slovakia to live or look for work abroad, your Slovak official documents may need to be translated into a foreign language. Alongside the official translation, we can also arrange certification and verification of your documents. The price of this service is set individually in each case and depends above all on your requirements, the number of documents, the verifications needed and the fees involved.
Consular superlegalisation
Where a document issued in Slovakia is to be used in a country that does not appear in the list above, a higher level of verification is needed. This consists of verification, an official translation of the document and further verification after translation.
Superlegalisation takes around two weeks, although in some cases it may take longer.
An apostille is enough if you need to use an official document issued by the Slovak authorities in any of the following countries:
Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cook Islands, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Montenegro, China (Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions only), Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Greece, Grenada, Georgia, Netherlands, Honduras, Croatia, India, Ireland, Iceland, Israel, Japan, South Africa, South Korea, Republic of Cape Verde, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Colombia, Costa Rica, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Latvia, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Hungary, Malawi, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Namibia, Germany, Nicaragua, Niue, Norway, New Zealand, Oman, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Austria, Romania, Russian Federation, El Salvador, Samoa, San Marino, Seychelles, Slovenia, United States of America, Serbia, Suriname, Eswatini (Swaziland), Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Great Britain, Vanuatu, Venezuela.
A public document bearing an apostille can be used before any authority of any State party to the Convention without further verification.