Florida-commissioned notaries working out of West Kennedy Boulevard in Tampa, filing at the Department of State counter in person since 2011.
Most apostille outfits are forwarding addresses. You mail them a document, they mail it to Tallahassee, and everyone waits on the postal service twice over. We took the trips out. Documents are collected here in Hillsborough County — at our Westshore office or wherever you are — and carried to the Florida Department of State by a person.
That single change is why the timeline is 5 business days instead of several weeks, and it is why rejections are rare. A document that would bounce gets caught at intake, when correcting it costs a phone call rather than a fortnight. We read the seal, the notarial certificate and the destination country's requirements before anything moves.
We are a private document handling business. We are not the Department of State, not affiliated with any government agency, and not a law firm — we will not draft your power of attorney or advise you on what a foreign court will accept. What we do is get Florida documents authenticated correctly and quickly, and tell you plainly when we cannot help.
Every document is presented at the Tallahassee counter in person. No mailroom, no batching, no waiting behind someone else's envelope.
Intake is a review, not a drop-off. Wrong certificate, incomplete notarization, out-of-state record — we find it here.
$190 per document with the state's filing fee inside it. Bundles reduce the per-document rate. Nothing appears at the end.
Florida-commissioned notaries, including remote online notarization, so signing and apostille happen in one appointment.
A large share of Tampa Bay's apostille work is Spanish-language. We handle it in Spanish end to end, from the first phone call to the counter.
If your document needs a different state, a federal agency, or an embassy rather than an apostille, we will say so before you pay.
Our office is at 4830 W Kennedy Blvd, Suite 633K in Tampa's Westshore district, open Monday to Saturday and run by appointment. Clients travel to us from across Hillsborough plus Pinellas, Pasco, Polk, Manatee, Sarasota and Hernando.
Every document is filed in person at the Florida Department of State rather than mailed, which is what holds the return to 5 business days. Spanish-language service is available throughout.
We work by appointment, which means no queue and no wasted trip. Ring us and we'll confirm a time within the hour.
We check that what you have is actually apostillable — certified copy, correct seal, complete notarization — and that it matches what the receiving country asks for.
A person carries your document to the state counter in Tallahassee. That single decision is what removes the multi-week postal queue from the timeline.
Your originals come back apostilled inside 5 business days, available for collection at the office, with a call the moment they arrive.
No courier surcharge, no rush upsell, no handling fee appearing at the end. The figure below covers the work and the state's filing fee together.
Each figure includes the state's $10 filing fee per document, hand delivery to the Department of State counter, and all handling from drop-off to return. Notarization, where a document needs it first, is a separate add-on.
Grab the Apostille and Notarial Certificate Request Form from the Florida Department of State here. There's no need to fill it out ahead of time — we'll complete it with you at your appointment.
Since 2011. The Hillsborough County operation is newer, but the practice behind it is not — this is the same team and the same in-person filing method used across our other Florida offices.
No, and be wary of any service implying otherwise. We are a private business that files documents on your behalf. The apostille itself is issued solely by the Department of State; we are the courier, the reviewer and the point of contact.
No. We are not attorneys and cannot tell you what to put in a power of attorney or how a foreign court will treat it. We can tell you whether a document is eligible for a Florida apostille and what the destination country typically expects.
All of Hillsborough County for appointments and a booked appointment, plus scheduled coverage across Pinellas, Pasco, Polk, Manatee, Sarasota and Hernando counties.
Only Florida-issued or Florida-notarized documents can receive a Florida apostille. If yours came from another state we will point you to the right office. In some cases we can notarize a copy certification here, which makes it a Florida document.
It rarely gets that far, because we vet documents at intake. If a rejection does happen for something we should have caught, we refile it at our cost.
Hillsborough County — our home county, served from the Tampa Westshore office by appointment.
Greater Tampa Bay — clients travel to us from Pinellas, Pasco, Polk, Manatee, Sarasota and Hernando counties; book ahead and we'll hold a time.
The office that issues the apostille itself.
Hillsborough County Clerk of CourtCertified copies of local court and marriage records.
Florida Bureau of Vital StatisticsOrder certified Florida vital records.
One flat rate, volume bundles, and the few things that add cost.
Processing timeThe 5-day timeline vs the mail-in queue.
Same-day & rush serviceA straight answer on what a tight deadline allows.
Booking an appointmentHow office visits work, and what to bring.
Come in during business hours at 4830 W Kennedy Blvd, or call and we'll we'll hold a time at 4830 W Kennedy Blvd.
