| Competent authority | Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice and Attorney General (Regina) |
| Government fee | $50 per document |
| Typical processing | ≈ 3–5 business days, the fastest provincial queue |
| Submission | Mail only |
What to know
- Saskatchewan currently has the fastest provincial turnaround in Canada at roughly 3–5 business days.
- The higher per-document fee ($50) is offset by speed; for urgent Saskatchewan documents this is usually the best total timeline.
- Original documents with a completed request form and prepaid return envelope are required; we prepare the full package.
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
- Authentication Services, Ministry of Justice and Attorney General (Regina)
Documents issued in Saskatchewan, and documents notarized by a Saskatchewan notary public - Form
- Document Authentication Checklist
- Send to
- Ministry of Justice and Attorney General, Authentication Services
101 - 1855 Victoria Avenue
Regina SK S4P 3T2 - Fee
- $50 per certificate issued
- Payment
- In person: credit or debit. By phone: credit card. By mail: cheque or money order payable to the Minister of Finance.
- Return
- Regular mail unless you include a prepaid envelope for tracked or faster return.
- Counter
- Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (drop-off and pickup only)
- Processing
- 3 to 5 business days from receipt, the fastest queue in Canada
Published by Authentication Services, Saskatchewan Justice. - Before
- Original documents with the completed checklist. Private documents are notarized by a Saskatchewan 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 Saskatchewan eHealth Vital Statistics
- Diplomas and transcripts from Saskatchewan public post-secondary institutions
- Saskatchewan court documents and orders
- Corporate records from Saskatchewan 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 Saskatchewan rejections we see most
- Uncertified photocopies
- Laminated documents
- Documents notarized outside Saskatchewan, 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 Saskatchewan? 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.
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