Unlike Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, whose records are also read on this site, Nicaragua objected to the accession of Kosovo, and the HCCH e-APP chart gives it a register link without any e-Apostille date. This page is for Nicaraguan institutions receiving Turkish papers and for Turks with Nicaraguan documents. It covers the 2013 record, the files in which the objection matters, the certifying ministry, the Cancillería certification page and the place of translation.
Nicaragua’s 2013 date: an accession nobody objected to
Nicaragua deposited its accession on 7 September 2012; the HCCH table shows 14 May 2013. Nobody objected, Türkiye included, and the relationship between the two countries began on 14 May 2013. The full status report records no exception between Türkiye and Nicaragua. Nicaragua is a Member of the Hague Conference. It has not acceded to ETS 063, CIEC 16 or CIEC 17, so Turkish multilingual civil status extracts gain no CIEC exemption in Nicaragua.
The Kosovo objection: which documents it touches
The Kosovo note in the HCCH full status report lists the states with which the Convention does not enter into force for Kosovo, and Nicaragua is one of them. Türkiye is not on the list, so a Turkish document’s route to Nicaragua is unaffected. The objection operates only where a document issued in Kosovo is to be used in Nicaragua, or a Nicaraguan document in Kosovo: between those two, an apostille does not count as a Convention certificate. Which authentication route applies in such a case, for someone in Türkiye with links to both countries for instance, lies outside this site and was not researched.
The Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its 2019 entry
According to the HCCH authority page, updated on 2 December 2019, the certifying power in Nicaragua lies with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; no named unit inside the ministry and no second authority by document type appear. No fee is shown on the HCCH page, and none could be verified here. Any change made after 2019 and not notified to the HCCH does not appear on this site either. A diploma, birth record or power of attorney from Nicaragua reaches a Turkish office bearing this ministry’s certificate.
cancilleria.gob.ni: a register link without an e-Apostille date
The e-APP chart of 13 August 2026 gives no starting date for electronic apostilles from the Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, yet it shows a register link: the certificacion.html page under cancilleria.gob.ni. The two fields of the chart carry separate information; the presence of a register link does not prove that certificates are issued electronically, and the empty date field does not prove that they are not. Which certificates the page covers and which details a search requires were not seen in this site’s survey. The authority page gives no separate register address; this is the only address notified to the HCCH for Nicaragua.
A Turkish document for Nicaragua and checking a Turkish certificate
When a Nicaraguan authority asks for an apostille on a Turkish document, the certificate is obtained in Türkiye. A valilik or kaymakamlık, the provincial or district governor’s office, certifies an administrative document and every notarial act, notarised translations and powers of attorney included; the original of a judicial document goes to the adalet komisyonu başkanlığı at a high criminal court seat. According to the information sheet of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, apostilled papers are not legalised by the Ministry and can be submitted directly to the authorities of Convention states. A physical certificate from a governor’s office can be checked on e-İçişleri with its serial number, verification code and date of certification, so a Nicaraguan institution can test a Turkish certificate that way. For an e-Apostil document, verification means uploading the file to the Belge Doğrulama page on eapostil.gov.tr.
Translation for Nicaragua and three unknowns
In which language and with which certification Nicaraguan institutions want a translation of a Turkish document was not found in this site’s survey; the receiving institution says. A translation made in Türkiye passes through a notary, and the certificate placed on the notary’s certification attests the notary’s signature and seal. Whether the Turkish translation of a certified Nicaraguan document also covers the certificate is for the receiving Turkish institution to decide. Three points stay open: the fee, the scope of the Cancillería page and how a Turkish e-Apostil document is received in Nicaragua. A translation office produces the translation and gives no legal opinion on what the Kosovo objection means for a particular file.