The California Secretary of State allows you to verify whether an apostille or authentication certificate was issued by the CA Secretary of State office. This service is available for apostilles / authentication certificates issued after January 1, 2017.

Here you can check the authenticity of a California apostille / authentication certificate.

Please note that the authenticity check does not provide information about the document that was apostilled / authenticated, it provides only the information that a certain apostille / authentication certificate was issued on a certain date, and what signature was authenticated.

The response to your inquiry will look like this:

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 We verify all apostilles / authentication certificates manually,  therefore you will get the response within 24-hours.

To verify your CA Apostille / authentication certificate, please complete the form below:

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