For spousal visas, foreign registration of marriage, and citizenship applications. $250 per certificate, 5 business days. Serving Hollywood from our Fort Lauderdale office, by appointment.
Hollywood sits squarely in our service area — we work with clients from the city constantly, and marriage certificate requests are among the most common reasons why. Married in Florida, but the marriage needs to count somewhere else? Foreign governments don't take a U.S. marriage certificate at face value — they require an apostille before registering the marriage, issuing a spousal visa, processing a name change, or extending citizenship rights to a spouse.
Florida marriage certificates are issued by the Clerk of Court in the county where the license was recorded — in Broward County, that's the Broward Clerk of Courts. Only a certified copy with the clerk's seal qualifies for an apostille. We verify the copy, file it in person at the Florida Department of State, and return the apostilled certificate in 5 business days. For Hollywood residents, that means one handoff — at your door or at our office — and the apostilled original back in your hands on a defined timeline.
Divorce or annulment proceedings in a foreign court over a Florida marriage begin with an apostilled copy of the original certificate.
Immigration authorities in nearly every country require an apostilled marriage certificate before issuing a spousal visa or residency permit to a foreign-married couple.
Many countries — Italy, Spain, Colombia, Brazil among them — require citizens to register a foreign marriage at home, and the apostilled U.S. certificate is the core document.
Spain, Italy, Portugal, and many Latin American countries offer accelerated citizenship for spouses of citizens — every application starts with an apostilled marriage certificate.
Hollywood is home to roughly 153,000 residents. Hollywood's large Cuban, Colombian, and Romanian communities keep a constant flow of documents moving between South Florida and consulates abroad — birth certificates for citizenship claims, powers of attorney for property overseas, and marriage records for foreign spouses.
We serve clients throughout Hollywood's neighborhoods including Hollywood Beach, Hollywood Hills, Emerald Hills, Hollywood Lakes, and Downtown Hollywood, as well as nearby communities such as Hallandale Beach, Dania Beach, Pembroke Pines, and West Park. Landmarks like the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk, ArtsPark at Young Circle, and Memorial Regional Hospital put us on familiar ground — this is home-turf service, not a mail-order processor.
From Hollywood, our Fort Lauderdale office is about 25 minutes away — visits by appointment — and appointments are usually available same day or next day. Also serving marriage certificate apostille clients in nearby Pembroke Pines, and Hallandale Beach.
The rules are specific, and they are where Hollywood filings most often go wrong: The document must be a certified copy of the marriage record issued by the Clerk of Court in the Florida county where the marriage license was filed — for Broward weddings, the Broward County Clerk of Courts. The decorative certificate signed at the ceremony, the church certificate, and photocopies cannot be apostilled.
Don't have a certified copy? Broward's Clerk of Courts issues them by mail, online, and in person. Married in another Florida county — Miami-Dade, Monroe, or anywhere else in the state — the process is the same through that county's clerk, and we apostille those too. Married in another state, and the certificate must be apostilled there; married abroad, and the foreign certificate can't receive a U.S. apostille at all. When your marriage certificate is ready, bring it to our office — about 20 minutes from Hollywood — appointments usually available same day or next day.
Tell us what you need by phone or through the form. Your office appointment is confirmed within one business hour.
Each document passes a pre-filing review — certified copy, complete notarization, destination-country rules — because rejections cost weeks.
We file in person at the Florida Department of State. No mail-in backlog, no batching, no waiting on an envelope.
In five business days the apostilled originals are back and ready — office pickup or local delivery, with a call to let you know.
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 Hollywood is a city where Cuban, Colombian, and Eastern European families keep vital records moving between South Florida and consulates abroad, the marriage certificates we apostille here are most often bound for Cuba, Colombia, Romania, and Israel. 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 marriage certificate needs before anything is filed — including whether a translation should be ordered before or after the apostille, which is the sequencing mistake that costs Hollywood clients the most time.
Yes — we serve every city in Broward County, Hollywood 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 25 minutes from Hollywood. 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.
No. Either spouse — or anyone you authorize — can hand us the certificate. The apostille authenticates the clerk's signature on the record, not yours.
Frequently, yes — Spanish-, Portuguese-, and Italian-speaking countries typically require a certified translation of the certificate for local registration. We coordinate translation and apostille together.
Certified copies don't expire under Florida law, but many foreign registries want one issued within the last 6–12 months. If yours is old, order a fresh copy — it's inexpensive and avoids rejection abroad.
Yes — any Florida county. The apostille comes from the Florida Department of State regardless of which county clerk issued the record.
The Broward County Clerk of Courts — you can order certified copies online, by mail, or in person. Once you have the certified copy with the clerk's seal, we take it from there.
