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Federal Apostille and Notary Processing

Federal Apostille Services at 1200 G Street NW — Metro Center, Washington, D.C.

Suite 800 at 1200 G St. NW sits one block from Metro Center, in the middle of the downtown business district. Documents received here are checked, prepared, and walked to the U.S. Department of State Authentications Office by our own staff. One price covers all of it: $120 flat, government fee included, with no mailroom step and no public queue.

$120 Flat Rate All Government Fees Included Hand-Delivered to State Dept. 10 Business Days

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Trusted Locally & Internationally

Built Around Downtown's Deadline Traffic

Metro Center is the easiest address in the District to reach without a car, and that shows in who uses this office: paralegals sent over between filings, HR managers moving a transferee overseas, K Street firms registering entities abroad, and residents who need an FBI report authenticated before a consular appointment they cannot reschedule.

FederalApostille.org is a private processing service, independent of the U.S. Department of State. Ten-plus years of federal authentication work sits behind every file — and the price does not move with the document type, the country, or the urgency. It is $120, government fee included.

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What We Authenticate

Documents Handled at the G Street Office

FBI Background Check

The document we file most often. Identity History Summaries from the FBI directly or from an approved channeler, authenticated for visas, residency, adoption and dual citizenship in 120+ Hague countries.

Naturalization Certificates

N-550 and N-570 originals prepared for consulates that require proof of U.S. citizenship before registering a birth, a marriage, or a second nationality.

Certificates of Citizenship

N-560 and N-561 documents authenticated for estate matters, foreign property purchases, and consular registration of children born abroad.

Federal Court Documents

District court judgments, adoption decrees, name-change orders and certified clerk copies that a foreign registry or tribunal will not accept unauthenticated.

IRS Form 6166 & Treasury

Tax residency certifications and Treasury records authenticated for treaty withholding relief, foreign account opening, and overseas corporate filings.

DD-214 & Service Records

Discharge papers, NPRC service letters and VA correspondence authenticated for benefits, residency and employment outside the United States.

Simple · Tracked · Reliable

From G Street to the State Department in Three Steps

Being downtown is convenient if you are downtown — and irrelevant if you are not, which is why most of what we file never crosses this counter at all. Documents uploaded from Texas or couriered from Ohio are prepared and hand-delivered exactly the same way. If you are local, Metro Center, McPherson Square and Gallery Place all put you within a few minutes' walk of Suite 800.

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Submit Documents

Upload through the secure portal, mail to 1200 G St. NW, Suite 800, or hand them over at the downtown office.

Hand-Delivered to State Dept.

Screened against current federal requirements first, then carried in person to the Authentications Office.

Secure Return

Originals come back to you by tracked courier. Ten business days start to finish.

Location Advantage

Why a Downtown Office Changes the Timeline

The distance between our door and the Authentications Office is measured in minutes, and that is where the saved days come from.

The mail is never part of the filing Inbound postal handling at a federal agency is unpredictable and invisible from the outside. Walking documents in removes that variable entirely.
Your timeline does not hinge on an appointment Public walk-in capacity is limited and books out. Our submission process is not competing for those slots.
Problems surface at intake, not after filing An uncertified copy, an expired certification, a missing state layer — we look for these before submission, while they still cost minutes.
Reachable without a car Metro Center is a two-line interchange a block away, which matters when a courier or a paralegal is running a document over on short notice.

Questions & Answers

1200 G Street NW Office — Common Questions

Where is the G Street office and how do I get there?

1200 G St. NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20005 — at the corner of 12th and G, roughly a block from the Metro Center station and a short walk from Gallery Place and McPherson Square. Intake is on the eighth floor; filings go on foot from there to the U.S. Department of State Authentications Office.

What is a federal apostille, and who can issue one?

Only the U.S. Department of State, here in Washington. An apostille certifies a federal document for use in a country that is party to the Hague Apostille Convention. No notary and no state office can issue one for a federal record, which is why every such filing in the country ends up in this city.

What does it cost?

$120 per document, flat, with the government fee already included. That covers intake review, preparation, hand-delivery, and tracked return shipping. No rush tier, no per-country surcharge, no fees added at the end.

How long will it take?

Ten business days from intake to the document being back with you. Hand-delivery removes the outbound transit and inbound mailroom time that a mailed submission has to absorb before it is even opened.

Can I drop documents off in person?

Yes, and plenty of downtown clients do. It is not required, though — uploading through the portal or mailing originals to Suite 800 produces the same result at the same price and on the same schedule.

Is it cheaper to file it myself?

On paper, yes — the government fee alone is lower. In practice the cost lands elsewhere: securing a walk-in slot, making the trip, and absorbing a rejection if the underlying document is not in an acceptable form. The screening step is the part most self-filers discover they needed only after being turned away.

Do you handle state documents too?

Yes, though the route differs. Birth and marriage certificates, state court records and notarized documents are apostilled by the Secretary of State of the issuing state, not by the federal government. Send them to us and we will file them through the correct state office — and handle the county-clerk step first where that state requires one.

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Federal Apostille Services at 1200 G Street NW — Metro Center, Washington, D.C.