vital records (birth, death, marriage certificates) certified by the current Alabama State Registrar and Director for the Center for Health Statistics. Effective January 1, 2018 the Alabama State Registrar is Nicole Henderson Rushing.

 documents notarized by a notary public qualified in the State of Alabama (powers of attorney, affidavits, copies of IDs, letters, diplomas, transcripts, etc)

 documents signed by a probate judge

 documents certified by a circuit clerk

Birth and death certificates should be certified by the current Alabama State Registrar and Director for the Center for Health Statistics. Effective January 1, 2018 the Alabama State Registrar is Nicole Henderson Rushing

By Alabama law, birth certificates are confidential records with restricted access for 125 years from the date of birth.

To obtain a certified copy of the birth certificate, please contact Alabama Center for Health Statistics: Birth Certificates | Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) (alabamapublichealth.gov).

By Alabama law, death certificates are confidential records with restricted access for 25 year from the date of death.

To obtain a certified copy of the death certificate, please contact Alabama Center for Health Statistics: Death Certificates | Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) (alabamapublichealth.gov)

Alabama marriage and divorce records can be issued either by the state or by the county where the event was recorded.

By Alabama law, marriage and divorce records are unrestricted (public).

We can assist you in obtaining a certified copy of your marriage certificate and having it apostilled.

We can assist you in obtaining a certified copy of your divorce certificate or divorce judgment, and having it apostilled.

Documents with the signature of a school official and the school seal applied by the school registrar are not sufficient. Diplomas and transcripts must be notarized by an Alabama Notary Public before the Apostille can be affixed to the document. If the document requires the Certification, it must be notarized and county authenticated before the document can be authenticated for foreign use.

If you are not able to get your school documents notarized by an Alabama notary, we will be able to have your documents (originals or copies) notarized and apostilled in Washington, DC. Please email copies for a free evaluation.

 Documents notarized by notaries public qualified in the State of Alabma include powers of attorney, affidavits, copies of IDs, letters, diplomas, transcripts, etc

 Copies of vital records (birth, death, marriage certificates), documents issued by Alabama courts (divorce judgments, name change, etc.) cannot be notarized. 

The notary must include a Certificate of acknowledgment or Jurat basically of the following form:

CERTIFICATE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT 

State of Alabama    )
                                 ) ss.:
County of . . . . . . .    )

I, ____________________, a Notary Public, hereby certify that ______________ whose name is signed to the foregoing document, and who is known to me, acknowledged before me on this day that, being informed of the contents of the document, he/she executed the same valuntarily on the date the same bears date. Given under my hand this ________ day of _______, 20____.

_______________         [Notary stamp]

Notary Signature     

[Notary's name]               Date:

Notary Public, State of Alabama

JURAT

State of Alabama     )
                                 ) ss.:
County of . . . . . . .    )

Subscribed and sworn to before me this ........ day of ........, 20 ...... by ______________ (name of pricipal signer)

_______________        [Notary stamp]
Notary Signature     

[Notary's name]               Date:

Notary Public, State of Alabama

Yes, except for vital records (birth, marriage, death certificates), documents issued by the courts or any other public records office. A copy certification is performed by a notary public to confirm that a reproduction of an original document is true, exact and complete. Such originals might include college degrees, passports and other important one-and-only personal papers which cannot be copy-certified by a public record office. 

COPY CERTIFICATION

State of Alabama     )
                                 ) ss.:
County of . . . . . . .    )

I, ______________, a notary public, do certify that, on the ____ day of ________, 20___, I personally made the above/attached copy of _________________ from the original, and that it is a true, excat, complete, and unaltered copy. 

_______________        [Notary stamp]
Notary Signature     

[Notary's name]               Date:

Notary Public, State of Alabama

All documents in a foreign language must be accompanied by a notarized English translation.