| Competent authority | Alberta Ministry of Justice, Authentication Services (Edmonton) |
| Government fee | $25 per document (e.g. 5 documents = $125) |
| Typical processing | ≈ 7–10 business days |
| Submission | Mail or courier only, no rush, walk-in or while-you-wait service |
What to know
- Payment is made online; the emailed receipt must be printed and included with the documents, along with the Apostille Request Form used as a cover sheet. We prepare both.
- One payment per submission covers all documents in the package, we batch your documents to keep handling simple.
- Include a prepaid electronic waybill for courier return; we always include one.
Doing it yourself: what the authority asks for
Everything below is published by the authority itself. We keep it here, up to date, because you are entitled to know exactly what it would take to skip us.
- Authority
- Official Documents and Appointments, Alberta Justice (Edmonton)
Documents issued in Alberta, and documents notarized by an Alberta notary public - Form
- Apostille Request Form, plus the emailed payment receipt from eservices.alberta.ca
- Send to
- Official Documents and Appointments
#111, 9833 109 Street
Edmonton AB T5K 2E8 - Fee
- $25 per document
- Payment
- Online only, through the Alberta eServices portal. Print the emailed receipt and include it with the documents.
- Return
- Include a prepaid electronic courier waybill, or a prepaid Canada Post Priority or Xpresspost envelope. Handwritten waybills are refused.
- Counter
- None. Mail or courier only, no rush service.
- Processing
- Allow at least 7 to 10 business days, plus mail
Published by Official Documents and Appointments (page dated December 2025). - Before
- Public documents (Vital Statistics certificates, public post-secondary transcripts, court documents, Corporate Registry records) go straight in. Private documents are notarized by an Alberta notary public first.
Does your document need a notary first?
This is the question that decides your cost and your timeline. Get it wrong and the submission comes back weeks later, unprocessed.
Goes straight to the authority
Public documents already carry an official signature the authority can verify. No notary, no extra fee, no extra weeks.
- Birth, marriage and death certificates from Alberta Vital Statistics
- Diplomas and transcripts from Alberta public post-secondary institutions
- Alberta court documents and orders
- Corporate records from Alberta Corporate Registry
Needs notarization first
Private documents carry no official signature, so a notary certifies the signer first and the apostille goes on that certification.
- Medical certificates and physician letters
- Powers of attorney, affidavits, statutory declarations
- Certified copies of passports and identity documents
- Private agreements and company resolutions
The Alberta rejections we see most
- Uncertified photocopies — Alberta wants the original or a properly certified copy
- Laminated documents
- Documents notarized in another province, which belong to that province’s authority
Two rules hold everywhere: never laminate a document, and never remove a staple from a multi-page one. Both are irreversible, and both are refused on sight. If you need a copy, photograph it flat.
Not in Alberta? It changes nothing.
The authority is decided by where the document was issued or notarized — never by where you live. People send us documents from Vancouver, Dubai and São Paulo, and the routing is identical.
- We prepare the request, pay the fee and submit on your behalf
- Nothing travels by ordinary mail — a prepaid tracked return envelope goes with every submission
- A PDF scan reaches you the day the document returns to us
- Originals ship anywhere in the world, tracked
Don’t have the document yet? We can order it from the issuing office on your behalf — see document retrieval from abroad.
Fixed written quote before anything moves.
Documents from different provinces travel separately
A common file — a birth certificate from one province, a degree from another, an RCMP check from Ottawa — is three submissions to three authorities, on three different timelines. They do not share a queue and they do not come back together. We run them in parallel so nothing waits on anything else.
Other authorities: Québec · Ontario · British Columbia · Saskatchewan · Federal & other provinces
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