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What an apostille and legalisation cost: a calculator by step
Agency prices and payments to the authorities step by step, for your document and destination. The state fee for an apostille is USD 30 per document as at 1 October 2026, and our price already covers it.
Agency prices
The apostille price already includes the state fee. Consular charges and notary tariffs are paid to the authority and the notary and appear as a separate line in the route.
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Apostille on a civil status document | USD 115 per document · state fee included · 5–7 working days |
| Apostille on a notarised copy or translation (Ministry of Justice) | USD 115 per document · state fee included · 5–7 working days |
| Apostille on an educational document | USD 115 per document · state fee included · 5–7 working days |
| Apostille on a criminal record certificate | USD 115 per document · state fee included · 5–7 working days |
| Apostille on an archival statement | USD 115 per document · state fee included · 5–7 working days |
| Next-day apostille | USD 287 per document · state fee included · 1 working day |
| Obtaining a civil status document | USD 172 per document |
| Duplicate diploma or school certificate | from USD 158 per document |
| Ordering a criminal record certificate | USD 172 per document |
| Urgent retrieval from a civil registry or police authority | from USD 359 per document |
| End to end: retrieval, translation and apostille | USD 503–574 per document |
| Obtaining an archival statement | from USD 86 per document |
| Wording for a power of attorney | free of charge |
| Notarised translation | from USD 22 per document |
| Notarised copy | from USD 3 per page |
| Consular legalisation | from USD 172 per document |
| Courier in Moscow | from USD 9 per call-out |
| CDEK delivery across Russia | from USD 17 per shipment |
State fees: apostille USD 30 per document (Russian Tax Code), legalisation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs USD 4 per document. Consular fees by country are in the consulates section.
Questions about price
Is the state fee included in the price or paid separately?
The apostille price already covers the state fee: the sum per document is final and nothing extra goes to the authority. Payments to third parties — consular charges, notary tariffs — are shown as separate lines: they do not come to us and carry no mark-up. If you handle the apostille step yourself, clear its tick box in the route: the fee moves back into the fees line, you pay it at the authority, and it is not refunded even if the authority refuses.
What does the end-to-end price include?
The steps ticked in the route: the notarised copy, the translation, submission and collection at the authority, and the consulate where legalisation applies. The state apostille fee is already inside its price; courier, consular charges and notary tariffs are separate lines. No notarised power of attorney is needed: a passport scan is enough for registry, education and police documents, a power of attorney on our template for the Ministry of Justice. A manager confirms the final sum once they have seen the document.
Can I pay for only some of the steps?
Yes. Every paid step in the route has a tick box: clear it if you will do that step yourself and the sum is recalculated. Clear the apostille step and its state fee moves into the fees line: you pay it at the authority yourself. A translation by a sworn translator abroad, for instance, we do not sell at all.