Notice on the Application of the Apostille in Place of Consular Legalisation as from 11 September 2026
Viet Nam has acceded to the Convention of 5 October 1961
Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents (the
Apostille Convention). The Convention enters into force for Viet Nam on 11
September 2026. From that date, public documents executed in one Contracting
Party and produced for use in the other require only a single certificate, the
Apostille, in place of the previous consular legalisation procedure, in
relations between Viet Nam and the Contracting Parties for which the Convention
is in force with Viet Nam [cite: 6].
An Apostille certifies the authenticity of the signature, the capacity in which
the person signing the document has acted and, where appropriate, the identity
of the seal or stamp which the public document bears. An Apostille does not
certify the content of the document