"Where can I have certificates certified?"

Here you can have your certificates certified

• Any public body that has an official seal can certify a certificate for you.
• These are, for example, authorities, notaries and also churches with an organization under public law, i.e. at least all parish offices of Catholic and Protestant communities.
• Are not entitled to official certification, although they are also allowed to carry a seal, not public bodies or institutions such as lawyers, tax consultants, auditors or associations.

Contact points for official certification

But where can you have your certificates authenticated in the cheapest and fastest way?

• Certifications in schools and churches are particularly inexpensive, but schools often only certify certificates that they have issued themselves. It is best to go to your previous school or ask your parish. Here you will probably hardly have to calculate waiting times and have to pay a low fee of around two to five euros per certification.
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• Furthermore, universities regularly offer certification in their secretariat, which is subject to correspondingly low fees. In most cases, this is only possible for certificates issued by this university.
• But also in the citizens' office or the registration office of your own municipality you can get relatively cheap, for an average of five euros, Have all certificates certified by German schools or universities, while the waiting times vary in length fail.
• After all, you can go to a notary anywhere, who must, however, charge the highest costs per certification, because the notary's minimum fee is 10 euros.
• In any case, take the original and the copy to be certified with you and then check whether all of the following criteria are met.
• The official certification must be provided with a certification note stating that the copy matches the original.
• If the document extends over several pages, the stamp must be placed on the bent corner so that all pages are covered by the stamp imprint.
• They must also be able to recognize the imprint of an official seal. The official seal differs from the pure written stamp of a lawyer or tax consultant mostly through an emblem.
• At the end, make sure that the notarizing person has put his signature on the copy.