consular services / authentication procedure

 

AUTHENTICATION PROCEDURE OF CANADIAN OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS TO BE PRESENTED TO THE ROMANIAN AUTHORITIES

 

According to article 162 of Law 105 / 1992 with regards to the regulation of international private relations, please be advised of the following: all official documents edited or legalized by a foreign authority can be presented to the Romanian authorities on condition that they are authenticated following a hierarchic, administrative way; further, they must be over authenticated by the Romanian diplomatic or official consular missions; this will guarantee the authenticity of signatures and seal.

 

This type of authentication is subject to the procedure established by the state of origin of that particular document; it is also followed by the over authentication made by the Romanian diplomatic mission or by the Romanian consular services.

 

As a result of adhesion to the Convention of Hague (October 05, 1961) concerning the abolishing of over authentication request of the official foreign documents, Romania absolves of over authentication all documents emitted by the authorities of contracting countries.

 

Canada has not yet signed off the above mentioned convention. Therefore, the Canadian official documents due to be presented to the Romanian authorities must be over authenticated.

 

The following are the steps to the over authentication procedure:

 

1) In order for the signature and seal of the emitting party to be authenticated, the Canadian official document has to be mailed to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada (Department of Foreign Affairs – Authentication of Documents JLAC, 125 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2, toll free: 1-800-267-8376, or phone: 613-944-4000 Ottawa area and overseas; fax: 613-944-7078). The Canadian Authorities authenticate the Canadian official documents within 10 business days since the date they receive the documents.

 

2) The official document will then have to be mailed or presented to the Consulate in view of authenticating the seal and signature of Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

 

Consular fee: $35.00CAN per document – cash or money order.

 

Those solicitants requesting this by mail will send the document along with a prepaid envelope to the Consulate General of Romania at Toronto

 

Turnaround time for this procedure: 4 – 5 working days.

 

If personally presented to the Consulate, the authentication will be done the very same day.