The route finder gives the order; this checker turns the same order into a list you can keep at hand. Each step has a box in front of it, ticked as it is completed. It is meant for the person who runs the chain over several days and several offices, and for the clerk who wants to see where a file stands.
A list in two parts
Document type, country and direction are chosen; the rule is exactly that of the route finder. The first part of the list holds four questions to put to the receiving authority before the chain starts: does it want the apostille on the original, on the translation, or on both; paper or electronic, and in which form it takes an electronic file; where and by whom the translation must be made; how recent the document must be. No checker produces those four answers; only the authority does. The second part holds the steps generated from the country and the document: obtaining the document with a wet signature, a notarial act where needed, the apostille or legalisation authority, the e-Apostil option, the translation, its notary certification, a second apostille if requested, and, in a non-party country, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the mission. Country notes sit under the list.
What the list does not remember: itself
Ticks live in the browser and disappear when the page is reloaded. The checker saves no progress, opens no account, sends no reminder. That is a deliberate choice: the site holds no document data at all. Anyone who wants a lasting copy prints the result. The list does not replace the authority’s own document list either; where the authority publishes a list of its own, that list outranks this checker. It gives no fees, no times and no appointment details.
What the steps rest on
The steps draw on the same sources as the route finder: country status from the HCCH table, with its date; the order translation, notary, governorship, Ministry from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs leaflet; the wet-signature requirement, the barcoded printout rule and the limit on trade documents from the Onikişubat district governorship; the separate authorities apostilling the original of a judicial document and its translation from the Onikişubat page, and the same split for a university diploma from the Zile page; the competence of any governorship or district governorship on notarial acts from article 199 of the Notaries Law; the Formül A, B and C exemption from the page of the German missions.
The translation box
On the apostille road the translation box follows the apostille box, and whether it covers the apostille page depends on the authority; in the legalisation chain the translation is the first box, followed by the notary certification and the governorship certification; on the apostille road too the notary certification box follows the translation; the second apostille box is ticked only if the authority asked. The list is generated on this page, in your browser alone; neither your choices nor your ticks are transmitted.