The most requested apostille in the Tampa Bay area — for dual citizenship, foreign marriage, and visa applications. $190 per certificate, 5 business days. Serving Tampa with mobile pickup and our Tampa Westshore office.
No document crosses our desk more often than the birth certificate. Dual citizenship, marriage abroad, work visas, enrolling a child in a foreign school — virtually every international process that asks you to prove who you are begins with an apostilled U.S. birth certificate.
If you were born in Florida, your document routes through the Florida Department of State — but the state only accepts certified copies from the Florida Bureau of Vital Statistics or a county health department vital records office. Hospital keepsakes, photocopies and laminated versions get turned away immediately. We inspect every certificate first, carry it to the Department of State ourselves, and put the apostilled original back in your hands within 5 business days. For Tampa residents that means one handoff and a defined timeline.
The single most common reason. Italian consulates want an apostilled birth certificate for the applicant plus every ancestor in the direct line.
Citizenship programs in Spain and Portugal — including the tracks for Sephardic descendants and Latin American nationals — call for apostilled U.S. birth records.
Getting married overseas? Before issuing a marriage licence to a U.S. citizen, most foreign civil registries want to see an apostilled birth certificate.
Ancestry-based citizenship — Polish, Irish, German, Lithuanian and many more — requires an apostilled birth certificate for each generation in the line.
The standard visa packet for the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Korea, Singapore and most of the EU includes an apostilled birth certificate.
Enrolling a child in school abroad, applying for a dual-national passport, filing a family reunification petition — each one calls for the child's apostilled U.S. birth certificate.
Tampa is home to roughly 400,000 people, the anchor of a metro of just over three million people. Tampa is one of the most internationally connected cities in Florida. Ybor City's Cuban and Spanish roots run straight through the city's identity, and the modern population layers on large Puerto Rican, Colombian, Venezuelan, Mexican, Indian, Vietnamese and Filipino communities. Add the Port of Tampa Bay, MacDill Air Force Base, a busy international airport, and a professional class with business interests across Latin America and Europe, and the apostille demand is constant: birth certificates for dual citizenship, corporate records for cross-border deals, powers of attorney for property held abroad, and background checks for overseas work visas.
We serve clients throughout Tampa's neighborhoods including Hyde Park, Ybor City, Westshore, Seminole Heights, South Tampa, Davis Islands, New Tampa and Channelside. Landmarks like the Tampa Riverwalk, Water Street, Tampa International Airport, Amalie Arena and the Port of Tampa Bay put us on familiar ground — this is local service, not a mail-order processor.
Our Westshore office sits on West Kennedy Boulevard, minutes from most of Tampa — walk in during business hours, or skip the drive entirely and book mobile pickup; we come to your home or office. We also handle birth certificate apostille work for clients in nearby Town 'n' Country, Temple Terrace and Brandon.
Only a certified copy will be accepted for apostille by the Florida Department of State — meaning one issued by the Florida Bureau of Vital Statistics in Jacksonville or a county health department vital records office, carrying the registrar's raised or printed seal and an issuing signature. That commemorative hospital certificate, no matter how official it appears, will not qualify.
Born in Hillsborough County but don't have a certified copy? You can order one from the Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County's vital records office or online through the state Bureau of Vital Statistics. Born in another state? Your birth certificate must be apostilled by that state's Secretary of State — we can point you to the right office. Born abroad? A Consular Report of Birth Abroad is a federal document requiring U.S. Department of State authentication instead. When your certificate is ready, bring it to our Westshore office — our office is right here in Tampa, on West Kennedy Boulevard in the Westshore district — or book mobile pickup and we'll come to you.
Walk in to our Tampa Westshore office or schedule mobile pickup across the Tampa Bay area — confirmed within one business hour.
Before anything is filed, we vet the document itself — the certification, the notarization, and what your destination country expects — so rejections don't happen.
We hand-carry your paperwork to the Florida Department of State counter ourselves. No mail-in pile, no batch processing, nothing left to chance.
Your apostilled originals come back in 5 business days, ready for office pickup or local return delivery — and you get a call the minute they arrive.
One flat number, nothing bolted on afterward. What we quote is what you pay, and the Florida Department of State's filing fee is already inside it.
Every price covers the $10-per-document Florida Department of State filing fee, in-person submission at the state counter, and complete document handling. If your paperwork needs notarization first, we offer that as a separate add-on service.
Grab the Apostille and Notarial Certificate Request Form from the Florida Department of State here. There's no need to fill it out ahead of time — we'll complete it with you at pickup.
Yes — mobile pickup covers Tampa and the wider Tampa Bay service area. Requests before 2 PM are routinely scheduled same-day, and every request gets a confirmed window within one business hour.
We're at 4830 W Kennedy Blvd, Suite 633K in Tampa's Westshore district — minutes away from Tampa. Walk-ins are welcome during business hours, or book mobile pickup and skip the trip entirely.
Pickup to return runs 5 business days anywhere in our service area — the same in-person filing schedule for every city we cover. Facing a tighter deadline? Call and we'll give you a straight answer about what rush handling can realistically deliver.
Certain destinations — Spain and Italy in particular — want a certified copy issued recently, usually within the past six to twelve months. If your copy is decades old, order a fresh one before apostilling; tell us where the document is headed and we'll advise.
If it's a certified copy carrying the registrar's seal and signature, generally yes — what the Department of State verifies is the issuing official's signature. Very old certificates signed by officials no longer on record occasionally bounce; a newly issued certified copy fixes that instantly.
Birth certificates are apostilled by whichever state issued them — a New York record goes through New York, an Ohio record through Ohio. Our service covers Florida-issued documents, and if yours is from another state we'll point you to the exact office to contact.
The apostille certificate itself is a standardised multilingual form — but plenty of countries still want a certified translation of the birth certificate for local use. Translations are something we coordinate regularly; mention it when you book.
Yes — the process is exactly the same, and either parent can request it. Children's certificates are among the requests we see most, usually for dual-national passports and foreign school enrollment.
Order certified Florida birth certificates.
Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough CountyLocal vital records office for Hillsborough-born residents.
Florida Department of StateThe office that issues the apostille itself.
One flat rate, volume bundles, and the few things that add cost.
Processing timeThe 5-day timeline vs the mail-in queue.
Same-day & rush serviceA straight answer on what a tight deadline allows.
Mobile pickupWe come to you, across the Tampa Bay area.
Same-day pickup available across Tampa — call and we'll confirm your window within one business hour.
