Authentication of copies/transcripts

Procedure

Legal bases

• § 33 Bremisches Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz (Brem. VwVfG)
• § 34 Bremisches Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz (Brem. VwVfG)

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Notarizations of foreign documents
Certification of foreign documents is only carried out for presentation to a German authority. The authority must be able to be named by the applicant, as it is to be included in the certification stamp.
Notarizations are possible upon presentation of

• a foreign document with translation (prepared by an officially sworn interpreter in Germany)
• a foreign document in Latin script without translation
• a German translation of a foreign document in the original

Foreign documents in characters other than Latin (e.g. Russian, Chinese, etc.) without translation cannot be certified.