Legalization of Documents

Egypt Consulate UK > Consular Services > Legalization of Documents

The Consulate General Does Not Accept Cash in any Consular Service by Mail, and is not responsible for the loss of cash in mailed envelopes. ONLY Postal Orders are accepted by Mail, which should be typed and NOT Hand Written in the name of “Consulate General of Egypt”.

Legalisation

Legalisation of Documents Issued in the United Kingdom

First: Legalizing Personal Documents
The fee is £47 per legalization, applicable for:

  1. Legalizing Egyptian documents already certified by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  1. Legalizing signatures for banking transactions, share purchases, or company dealings, once notarized and then Apostilled by the FCDO.
  1. Legalizing documents issued by domestic entities, once apostilled by the FCDO, provided they comply with Egyptian laws. For more on FCDO apostille, visit: https://www.gov.uk/get-document-legalised.
  2. Legalizing educational certificates and enrolment letters from UK institutions, provided they are certified by the Egyptian Cultural Office (contact: legalisation@uk.cdm.edu.eg). Responses from schools may take 1–30 days.
  3. Legalizing employment or experience certificates, once notarized by a Notary Public and apostilled by the FCDO. Notarization must explicitly verify the document’s authenticity. The consulate does not accept mere “certified copies of original”.
  4. Legalizing translations or copies of documents after apostilling both the original and the copy by the FCDO.
  5. Composite notarized documents must be individually apostilled by the FCDO and then separately by the Consulate General.
  1. Legalization of marriage and divorce contracts issued by any Islamic centre: One party has to be Egyptian, and an Egyptian party has to come in person to legalize the contract. For more details, please visit: http://egyptconsulate.co.uk/consular-services/authentication-endorsement-of-british-foreign-marriage/

Second: Legalizing Commercial Documents
The fee is £125 per legalization for:

  1. Legalizing commercial contracts and trade-related documents apostilled by the FCDO.
  2. Legalizing certificates of origin, commercial invoices, and trade documents, after their certification by the Egyptian British Chamber of Commerce.

Submission and Collection

  • submissions: 10:00 AM–1:30 PM; Collection: 2:30 PM–3:30 PM.
  • Some documents may require up to three working days for processing.

Legalizations by Post

  1. Documents can be sent by post FOR THE ATTENTION OF THE LEGALISATION SECTION taken into consideration the following conditions are fulfilled:
    • The document has already been apostilled by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office FCDO.
    • The EXACT amount of fees should be sent by Postal Orders made payable to “The Egyptian Consulate General”  (CHEQUES ARE NOT ACCEPTED).
    • A self-addressed return envelope should be enclosed bearing the name and full address of the sender written clearly in BLOCK CAPITAL letters – with sufficient stamps.
    • Documents should be sent by Registered or Recorded Delivery (NOT by regular post).
  2. Please note that the Consulate holds no responsibility for the loss of documents sent by post.

 

For more details, please check https://www.gov.uk/get-document-legalised

Announcement regarding the Legalization of all the employment / experience related letters