Submitting your birth certificate for a skilled worker or employment visa application in Spain requires more than a notarized photocopy. Receiving authorities in Spain verify documents through an internationally agreed apostille procedure that ties your original record to a recognized state authority in the country of issuance. The order in which the steps are performed matters: a translation completed before the apostille is added is usually rejected, and missing the prior state-level authentication is the single most common reason Spain returns documents unprocessed.
Documents bound for Spain are authenticated through the Spanish Ministerio de Justicia for judicial documents and the relevant autonomous community for civil records. Because both Spain and most likely the country where the document was issued are members of the 1961 Hague Apostille Convention, a single apostille certificate is sufficient — no embassy legalization is needed.
Generally no. Spain authorities for skilled worker or employment visa application purposes require the physical original or a re-issued certified true copy bearing a wet-ink stamp from the issuing institution. Digital-only documents are accepted only for a narrow set of issuers that publish a verifiable online register.
Standard turnaround for apostille of your birth certificate bound for Spain is 3–7 working days from the moment we receive the original document. Urgent processing is available in 24–48 hours for most countries of origin where the issuing authority offers expedited service.
No. The entire apostille chain is processed in the country where your birth certificate was issued, not in Spain. You only need to ship the original document to our processing office; the apostilled and translated package is then couriered to wherever you are.
Yes. The apostille we issue is performed by the Spanish Ministerio de Justicia for judicial documents and the relevant autonomous community for civil records, the recognized authority for documents of this type. Receiving institutions in Spain — embassies, consulates, employers and immigration offices — verify the document through the same channel.
Employers and skilled-worker visa officers in Spain sit on dozens of applications per week. A document chain that arrives correctly authenticated and translated the first time moves through the queue faster, while a chain with a missing step is set aside and often only flagged after weeks of waiting. We process your birth certificate so that the work-visa decision-maker can verify it on first inspection.