Apostille(Legalisation) for Belgium residency visa from US

[galileo]

Hi There,,

We are US citizens moving to Belgium for work. Our work permit is already in process. After we get the WP we need to apply for the residency visa.

Does anyone knows if the Birth certificate needs to be apostilled for both spouse and applicant or only for spouse.

The Belgium website says its needed for spouse only but just wanted to confirm, if anyone else went through the process before or has first hand info about it.

Regards

[ejw4h9]

Galileo-

I'm not sure whether it must be done or not, but go ahead and do it. I had every American document stamped with an Apostille for a "just in case" scenario. I'm not sure which state you live in and each state has a different office that handles it, but from my state there was an office that, among other things, stamped Apostilles. It was about $3.00/document and I was able to wait while they completed them. I had my birth certificate, proof of not being married (can't remember the name of that one), clean criminal record, etc. all done and it was well worth it.

Make sure that you look over the documents when they hand them over...I was walking to my car when I realized that they had stapled the Apostille to a wrong document, so they had to re-do. I'm sure I saved myself several headaches catching it then instead of Europe.

[Pasha]

I agree, its better to be prepared by getting both certificated legalised. An apostille stamp is internationally recognised by all embassies.

[dava43]

Here is free information about Apostille Beligum:

http://apostillecentral.com/belgium.html

I agree, its better to be prepared by getting both certificated legalised. An apostille stamp is internationally recognised by all embassies.