Does your document need to be authenticated?

Authentication requirements differ from country to country. Before sending your documents to be authenticated, please search our website, then contact us to obtain updated legalization, authentication, attestation and apostille information for your Canadian document attestation at the embassy of Norway in Ottawa Canada.

If you require your documents to be authenticated, you should ensure to have the documents authenticated prior to arranging for travel outside of Canada. Please note that Canadian missions or embassies abroad are often not able to authenticate Canadian documents.

Legalization of Documents

The Royal Norwegian Embassy cannot authenticate a document on behalf of a Norwegian Authority but can only legalize documents* in conjunction with the Global Affairs Canada – Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development (DFATD) in Ottawa.

Therefore, documents must be legalized through the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development (DFATD) in Ottawa. This procedure departs from the fact that (a) Canadian documents must be authenticated in Canada and (b) Canada is not a signatory to The Hague Apostille Convention (Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents).

General requirements to legalize documents in embassy of Norway in Ottawa Canada:

1. The document for legalization, authentication and attestation must be an original or certified true copy of the original by a notary public or a commissioner of oath; however many embassies demand the stamp of the Lawyer or the Notary Public to be on the document itself and not on the cover letter of the Lawyer or of the Notary.
2. It must be stamped by the Global Affairs Canada, Authentication of Documents section in Ottawa (Ex Department of Foreign Affairs, International trade and development Canada DFATD).
3. The Norway Embassy’s in Ottawa legalization fee is CAD 35 per document
4. The consular section reserves the exclusive right to grant or reject the legalization of any document, to ask for additional documentations, requirements, changing the processing time and fees without prior notice. “Ottawa-legalization” authentication
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Translation of Documents at the Royal Embassy of Norway Ottawa:

Upon request, the Royal Norwegian Embassy provides unauthorized translations of following original documents:
1. Birth certificates
2. Death certificates
3. Divorce certificate
4. Wedding certificates
5. Driver’s licenses
6. Notification of name change
7. Baptism certificate
Please note that if a ‘certified translation’ is needed, you should contact a translation bureau.
The Embassy’s translation fee is CAD 35 per document

List of the document can be attested, legalized, authenticated or apostille after has been authenticated by Global Affairs Canada, please check with us if there is any specific requirement for your document authentication at the embassy of Morocco in Ottawa Canada.