Corrected October 2026. Guatemala has been a member of the Hague Apostille Convention since September 18, 2017. An earlier version of this page said otherwise, and that was wrong. US documents going to Guatemala need an apostille, which is a single certificate attached by the US authority that oversees the document. No embassy or consulate legalization is needed. Which office issues the apostille? It depends on who issued the document. State-issued documents, such as birth, m

As a member of The Hague Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, I can help...