The difficulty in a Venezuelan file is not whether the certificate is genuine but which register to check it in: the HCCH e-APP chart counts four registers for Venezuela, each covering certificates placed in a particular span of dates. This page reads the 1999 row, names the single ministry in Caracas, sets out the date boundaries of the four registers, explains the April 2019 electronic switch, notes the spelling “Venezuella” on the Turkish official list, and describes the limited reach of Venezuela’s objection to Kosovo.
The Venezuela row: 16 March 1999 and one ministry in Caracas
Venezuela deposited its instrument of accession on 1 July 1998, and the HCCH status table shows 16 March 1999 in the Venezuela row. No state objected within the six-month window; Türkiye raised nothing, and the full status report records no exception between the two countries. The HCCH authority page, updated on 18 August 2026, places the authority with the Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, with no second channel by document type. The record was refreshed in the summer of 2026; it states no fee, and the data record marks the fee as unverified. Venezuela appears on the HCCH list of Members.
23 May 2018, 1 May 2019, 11 June 2025: the four Venezuelan registers
The e-APP chart note lists four registers: the first for certificates placed before 23 May 2018, the second for those placed between 24 May 2018 and 1 May 2019, the third for those placed from 2 May 2019, and the fourth for those placed from 11 June 2025. The link in the chart is validarlegalizaciones.mppre.gob.ve, and the authority page gives the same address; whether the four registers sit under that one address or at separate ones was not verified in this site’s survey. A Turkish institution or notary looks at the date on the certificate before querying and picks the register for that span; a “not found” result in the wrong span does not mean the certificate is false.
April 2019 e-apostilles and the fourth register opened in 2025
According to the e-APP chart, Venezuela has placed electronic apostilles since April 2019, and the third register starting on 2 May 2019 lines up with that switch. The chart does not explain why a fourth register opened on 11 June 2025, and the reason was not verified here. A Venezuelan document reaching Türkiye after June 2025 is checked in the fourth register, one placed between 2019 and 2025 in the third. Whether paper certificates continued after 2019 is not stated in the chart, and the form in which a Turkish institution wants an electronic document follows that institution’s own practice.
Venezuela or Venezuella: finding the country on Turkish lists
According to this site’s data record, the Turkish Foreign Ministry list spells the country “Venezuella”, while the HCCH record reads “Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)”. Anyone searching a Turkish official list or the e-Apostil application screen for the country should try both spellings; a search for “Venezuela” that returns nothing does not mean the country is missing from the list. A spelling gap of the same kind appears for Oman as “Oman (Umman)” and is described on that page. In the translation file the consequence is practical: the Turkish translation writes the country name in the form the receiving Turkish institution expects, with both spellings noted where useful.
Kosovo papers in Caracas and Turkish papers from a governor’s office
The full status report names Venezuela among the states that objected to Kosovo’s accession, so the apostille does not run between Venezuela and Kosovo. A Turkish document is unaffected; Türkiye raised no objection, and a Kosovar document is handled with an apostille in Türkiye. The effect stays in three-country files: a Kosovar document that must go to Caracas cannot rely on a Kosovar apostille, and which route applies between Venezuela and Kosovo instead is not stated in the sources read for this site. A Turkish document for Caracas is apostilled by a Turkish authority: an administrative document and every notarial act go to a valilik or kaymakamlık, the provincial or district governor’s office; the original of a court judgment goes to the adli yargı adalet komisyonu başkanlığı, the judicial commission at a high criminal court seat. Onikişubat writes that it certifies documents from any province, but Develi’s list stops at its own district; the any-province rule of Notaries Law art. 199 covers notarial acts only, and a uniform practice for administrative documents was not verified. Six document types can be handled through e-Apostil, the official Turkish electronic apostille system; whether a Turkish electronic certificate is accepted in Venezuela was not verified. The apostilled document is not taken to the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and does not pass through the Venezuelan mission. Venezuela has not acceded to ETS 063, CIEC 16 or CIEC 17.
Spanish translation for Venezuela and a fee the HCCH page does not state
Under whose signature Venezuelan 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 does not assess the translation. A Venezuelan document is translated into Turkish after the certificate is placed; the date of the certificate and the register in which it was checked are noted in the translation, because the Turkish institution must find the same register. Unknown points: the Venezuelan fee, the address structure of the four registers, the reason behind the 2025 change, the continuation of paper certificates, the form in which a Turkish e-Apostil is accepted in Caracas, and the translation language. A translation office carries the text and the register data across and gives no opinion on the authenticity of the certificate.