Certificates of birth, baptism, person and name

You must contact the Church Office in your parish of residence regarding the issuance of birth, baptismal, person, and name certificates. You can order the certificate with a Digital Signature on borger.dk and receive the certificate via Digital Post or have the Church Office issue a certificate with a physical/wet signature.

Purchase Apostille/legalisation in our webshop:

You must make a purchase for legalisation/Apostille in our webshop prior to uploading, submitting, physically sending, or digitally forwarding the document for legalisation. It costs 230 DKK per document. You will receive a purchase receipt by e-mail.

Find the webshop here.
Find the webshop guide here.

After completing the purchase:

1. Upload documents with a Digital Signature in the webshop. Documents with a Digital Signature are the only documents that can be uploaded for purchase and endorsed with an E-Apostille. Receiving documents electronically is not the same as having a Digital Signature. You can check if the document has a certified Digital Signature if a blue bar is visible at the top of the PDF file.

Please note that E-Apostilles are not signed by either the issuing Danish authority or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We refer to the receiving authority regarding the recognition of the E-Apostille.

2. Forward documents received in Digital Post from the Church Office directly from Digital Post to the Legalisation Office. You can find our guide here.

3. Submit documents with a physical/wet signature by personal attendance or alternatively send them by physical mail or courier to the Legalisation Office. We do not accept scans, copies, or printouts of physical original documents. If you have more than seven documents, we cannot guarantee legalisation on the same day. The Legalisation Office reserves the right to refuse legalisation requests that are expected to take beyond our opening hours.

When the documents are received and processed at the Legalisation Office:

1. Download documents with a Digital Signature uploaded for purchase as an E-Apostille directly in the browser window. Alternatively, the E-Apostille can be printed with a physical Apostille endorsement by the Legalisation Office and then collected by personal attendance or returned by mail or courier.

2. Documents forwarded from Digital Post will be printed by the Legalisation Office and collected by personal attendance or alternatively returned by physical mail or courier.

3. Documents submitted by personal attendance will be legalised immediately or alternatively returned by physical mail or courier.

Document collection by courier or return by post: 

You can expect a processing time of 5-7 working days after we receive documents by mail or courier. Please note that the processing time may be longer during busy periods.

You are responsible for postage and/or courier collection in connection with the legalisation of documents. You can optionally purchase return postage for a Quick Letter in our webshop or alternatively buy return postage directly on PostNord’s website. The purchase receipt and return postage code/label must be enclosed with the documents for shipment or sent digitally to [email protected]

For courier collection within our opening hours, please send the waybill to [email protected] after we have processed your documents.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not responsible for shipment and cannot provide guidance on delivery times. We kindly refer to the relevant postal service provider or courier.

Are you not registered for Digital Post?

If you are not registered for Digital Post, you must contact the Church Office to have a certificate issued, which is stamped and signed with a physical/wet signature. A scan or copy of the signature is not accepted.

In this case, please follow point 3 in the above instructions.