| Competent authority | Ministère de la Justice du Québec (Apostille Office, Montréal) |
| Government fee | $66.50 per document (indexed annually) |
| Typical processing | ≈ 10 business days + mail |
| Submission | Mail only, no in-person service |
What to know
- Request form is completed and paid online; a printed copy of the form and payment receipt must accompany the documents.
- Notarial acts and lawyer-signed documents require prior signature verification, by the Chambre des notaires for notaries (about 20 business days, or about 72 hours with their rush option) or by the Barreau du Québec for lawyers (about 5 business days). We manage this step for you.
- Laminated, glued, illegible or unsigned documents and card-format documents (e.g. driver's licences) are refused. We catch these in the free pre-check before any fee is paid.
- Birth, marriage and death certificates must come from the Directeur de l'état civil. For foreign citizenship applications, the long-form certificate (with parents' names) is usually required, a very common rejection we screen for.
- Return is by regular mail unless a prepaid courier label and an unfolded envelope (min. 8.5 × 11 in.) are included, we always include one.
Verified June 2026 against the authority's published requirements; re-confirmed for every order at pre-check. Government fees and delays are outside any provider's control, including ours.
Have a Québec document?
Upload a scan, we'll confirm the routing, screen it for refusal risks and send a fixed quote within one business day.
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