On August 02, 2017, Law No. 967 of ratification for the Accession of the Hague Apostille was enacted, which will give legal value to public documents issued in another signatory country.
The XII Hague Convention Suppressing the Requirement of Legalization of Foreign Public Documents of October 5, 1961, known as the Apostille Convention, recognizes the legal effectiveness of a public document issued in another signatory country.
This international agreement will allow Bolivia to join an easy and simple system to legalize documents of Bolivian citizens that must be validated abroad and foreign documents in the country.
This international agreement will replace the so-called chain of diplomatic legalizations with a simplified procedure, the norm will be immediately deposited before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.
From then on, and after the eight months established in the agreement procedure, this valuable international instrument may enter into force.
When this standard is in force in the country, public documents will only require a stamp seal from an authority as the “only formality” that may be required to certify a document.
