Legalising documents
The Finnish authorities may ask you to legalise a foreign document. This should be done in the country where the document was issued.
- The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the issuing country certifies that the document is genuine and has been issued by its authority
- The competent Finnish mission in the country legalises the document by appending to it a certificate proving the right of the official at the country’s ministry for foreign affairs to issue such certificates.
The Philippines has signed the Hague Convention on Apostille, but Finland has has objected to the accession of the Philippines to the Apostille Convention. This means that all documents have to be legalized at the Finnish Embassy in Manila, even though they have an apostille.