Teach English abroad, take a foreign job offer, enroll in graduate school overseas. Notarization requirements handled. $250 per document, 5 business days. Serving Plantation from our Fort Lauderdale office, by appointment.
For the 91,000 people who call Plantation home, getting a diploma accepted abroad comes down to one certification: the Florida apostille. Foreign employers, universities, and licensing boards don't accept a U.S. diploma on faith — they require an apostille. And education documents are the trickiest category in the Florida apostille system, because a diploma isn't a public record: before the Florida Department of State will touch it, the document must be properly notarized.
That's where most do-it-yourself attempts fail. The registrar or records custodian must sign a statement before a Florida notary attesting the copy is true — done incorrectly, the state rejects the filing. We know exactly what Florida requires, we coordinate the notarization step when your school hasn't done it, and we file in person. $250 per document, 5 business days from the point your document is apostille-ready. For Plantation residents, that means one handoff — at your door or at our office — and the apostilled original back in your hands on a defined timeline.
Nurses, engineers, teachers, and accountants seeking foreign licensure must submit apostilled credentials to the foreign board.
Foreign equivalency bodies (and some immigration pathways) require apostilled academic records before issuing an evaluation.
Universities abroad increasingly require apostilled transcripts even for one-semester exchange enrollment.
Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, Spain, and the UAE all require apostilled diplomas for teaching visas — the single most common diploma apostille we handle.
Plantation is home to roughly 91,000 residents. Plantation is Broward's corporate spine: the University Drive office corridor, Plantation General's medical campus, and the headquarters cluster along Broward Boulevard. That mix produces work other cities do not send us — certificates of incumbency, board resolutions, and distribution agreements bound for foreign subsidiaries — alongside the personal vital records its South Asian and Caribbean families need for family petitions abroad.
We serve clients throughout Plantation's neighborhoods including Plantation Acres, Jacaranda, Plantation Isles, Central Park, and Fig Tree, as well as nearby communities such as Sunrise, Davie, Lauderhill, and Fort Lauderdale. Landmarks like the Westfield Broward mall area, Plantation Central Park, and Volunteer Park put us on familiar ground — this is home-turf service, not a mail-order processor.
From Plantation, our Fort Lauderdale office is about 20 minutes away — visits by appointment — and appointments are usually available same day or next day. Also serving diploma apostille clients in nearby Fort Lauderdale, Davie, Sunrise, and Lauderhill.
For Plantation residents, the requirements below decide whether a filing succeeds or bounces: Diplomas and transcripts are private institutional documents, so Florida requires a notarization before apostille. The accepted route: the school's registrar or records custodian signs a notarized statement (before a Florida notary) attesting that the attached copy is a true copy of the original. Many Florida universities — including Broward College, FAU, NSU, and FIU — have registrar offices familiar with this request; sealed official transcripts often carry the registrar's signature that can be notarized on the spot.
If your school is out of state, the notarization generally must happen in the school's state and the apostille comes from that state — with some workarounds we can explain by phone. High school diplomas follow the same pattern through the school district. And if you hit a wall with a registrar, call us: we've untangled this for hundreds of graduates and know the practical routes for Broward-area institutions. When your diploma is ready, bring it to our office — about 15 minutes from Plantation — appointments usually available same day or next day.
Start with a two-minute call or the request form. We schedule your office appointment and confirm within one business hour.
Documents are inspected first: is the copy certified, is the notarization complete, does the destination country need something extra? Problems surface now, not later.
We hand-deliver your file to the Florida Department of State. In-person filing is the difference between five business days and several weeks.
Your apostilled originals are back in five business days — office collection or local delivery, and a phone call the moment they arrive.
No hourly rates, no hidden charges, no surprise add-ons. The price you see is the price you pay — including the Florida Department of State filing fee.
All prices include the Florida Department of State filing fee ($10 per document), in-person filing at the Department of State, and full document handling. Notarization available as a separate service when your documents require it.
Download the Florida Department of State Apostille and Notarial Certificate Request Form. We can fill it out for you at your appointment — no need to complete it in advance.
Because Plantation is a corporate corridor along University Drive with large Jamaican and South Asian communities, the diplomas we apostille here are most often bound for Jamaica, India, Colombia, and the United Kingdom. That matters practically: each destination has its own quirks — whether a certified translation is required, whether the receiving registry wants a recently issued copy, and whether the apostille needs to be translated along with the document.
We handle those details as part of the job rather than leaving you to discover them at a consulate window. Tell us the destination country when you call and we’ll confirm exactly what your diploma needs before anything is filed — including whether a translation should be ordered before or after the apostille, which is the sequencing mistake that costs Plantation clients the most time.
Yes — we serve every city in Broward County, Plantation included. Service is by appointment at our Fort Lauderdale office at 6750 N Andrews Ave, Ste 288E; requests before 2 PM are routinely scheduled the same day, and every request gets a confirmed time within one business hour.
We're at 6750 N Andrews Ave, Ste 288E in Fort Lauderdale — about 20 minutes from Plantation. Office visits are by appointment, and same-day slots are usually available.
5 business days, drop-off to return — the same in-person filing timeline countywide. Rush handling is available when your deadline is tighter; call us and we'll tell you honestly what's achievable.
Yes — same notarized true-copy route, through the school or the school district's records office. Broward County Public Schools' records department processes these requests.
Yes — that's the Florida rule for education documents. A school official signs a true-copy statement before a Florida notary, and that notarized document is what the Department of State apostilles. We coordinate this step routinely.
Contact the registrar's office and request a notarized true-copy certification of your diploma or an official transcript with notarized registrar signature — these schools handle the request regularly. Then we take over: review, in-person filing, and return in 5 business days.
Usually the notarization and apostille must both happen in the school's state. We'll confirm your specific situation and point you to the right office — and if a Florida-side route exists for your case, we'll tell you.
Depends on the destination: teaching programs in Korea and Japan usually want the diploma; universities and credential evaluators usually want transcripts; Gulf-state employers often want both. Check your checklist — or read it to us and we'll interpret it.
