The Bahamas Embassy, Beijing is also responsible for the authentication/legalization of documents for use either in The Bahamas or in a Country that is not party to the Apostille Convention.

Background

The Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement for Legalization for Foreign Public Documents, the Apostille convention, or the Apostille treaty is an international treaty drafted by the Hague Conference on Private International Law. It specifies the modalities through which a document issued in one of the signatory countries can be certified for legal purposes in all the other signatory states. Such a certification is called an apostille (French: certification). It is an international certification comparable to a notarization in domestic law.