Bolivia has a row in the HCCH table but no entry in the country list of Türkiye’s official e-Apostil system; the same gap exists for Bangladesh and Rwanda and is described on their pages. This page covers the 2018 date, the position of a state that acceded without belonging to the Hague Conference, the single ministry working from three cities, the April 2019 electronic switch and the VerificaApostilla register, what the gap on the Turkish list leaves open, and the place of Spanish translation.
Bolivia’s 2018 row: outside the HCCH membership, inside the table
Bolivia deposited its instrument of accession on 6 September 2017, and the HCCH status table shows 7 May 2018 in the Bolivia row. No state objected within the six-month window, Bolivia has objected to no accession, and it does not appear in the Kosovo note. The full status report shows no exception between Türkiye and Bolivia, and the date between the two countries is Bolivia’s own. Bolivia does not appear on the HCCH list of Members: a state may accede to the Convention without joining the Conference. Bolivia has not acceded to ETS 063, CIEC 16 or CIEC 17, and multilingual civil status forms carry no exemption there.
La Paz, Santa Cruz, Cochabamba: three Bolivian offices under one ministry
The HCCH authority page, updated on 11 May 2020, places the authority in Bolivia with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, exercised in three cities: the central office in La Paz and departmental offices in Santa Cruz and Cochabamba. The HCCH page lists the offices by city and names no split by document type; which office a given document goes to was not verified here. A certificate from the Santa Cruz office has the same value for a Turkish office as one from La Paz. No fee is stated on the HCCH page; the data record marks it unverified, and none is given here. A record dated 2020 leaves open the possibility that a fourth office or a change of address has not reached the HCCH.
VerificaApostilla and Bolivian e-apostilles since April 2019
According to the e-APP chart of 13 August 2026, the Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has placed electronic apostilles since April 2019, less than a year after the Convention began to apply in Bolivia. The register is the VerificaApostilla page under rree.gob.bo, queried by link. A Bolivian diploma or birth record issued after 2019 may therefore carry an electronic certificate, which a Turkish institution or notary confirms in that register. The chart lists the authority in one line and does not say whether all three offices place electronic certificates. Whether paper certificates continue, and in what form a Turkish institution wants an electronic document, were not verified on this site.
Absent from the Turkish e-Apostil screen: what the gap leaves open
On a reading of 21 September 2026, the list of active countries in the official Turkish e-Apostil system did not name Bolivia, whereas the HCCH table has a Bolivia row, and this site’s data record follows the HCCH table for its country list. The e-Apostil country list is the set of options on an application screen; when it was last updated is not stated. What a Turkish citizen who needs a criminal record extract or a civil registry extract for Bolivia should do when the country cannot be selected on that screen is not stated in the sources read for this site; the official system is asked. The reason for the gap on the list was not verified here either.
Bolivian records in a Turkish office: electronic certificate, Turkish translation
A Bolivian birth record, diploma or notarial power of attorney reaches Türkiye with a certificate from one of the three Foreign Affairs offices; the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not legalise a document that already carries an apostille. A certificate placed after 2019 may be electronic and is checked in VerificaApostilla; whether certificates placed between 2018 and 2019 can be looked up in the same register is not stated in the chart and was not verified. The Turkish institution processes the document with a notarised Turkish translation, and the sources read here leave to that institution whether the Bolivian certificate is translated with it. In the other direction, a Turkish document for La Paz is certified by a Turkish authority: an administrative document and every notarial act at a governor’s office, the original of a court judgment at the adli yargı adalet komisyonu başkanlığı, the judicial commission at a high criminal court seat; the certified document is not taken to the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and does not pass through the Bolivian mission.
Spanish translation for Bolivia and two register questions
Under whose signature Bolivian institutions accept a Spanish translation was not verified in this site’s survey; the receiving institution is asked. A translation made in Türkiye passes through a notary, and the notarisation receives its own apostille; the certificate confirms the notary’s signature and seal and gives no assurance about the translated text. Points left open on this page: the Bolivian fee, whether all three offices place electronic certificates, whether 2018 to 2019 certificates can be looked up, the reason Bolivia is missing from the Turkish e-Apostil list, the form in which a Turkish electronic certificate is received in La Paz, and the translation language. A translation office carries the text and the register data across; which office signs and what the Bolivian institution decides are outside its role.