Apostille & Document Legalization in Markham

Markham is one of Canada's most internationally connected cities. Its large Chinese and South Asian communities maintain close family, property, and business ties to China, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and everyday life events here — a marriage, an inheritance, a power of attorney for a relative overseas — routinely need to be recognized by a foreign authority before they carry any legal weight abroad.

The city is also a major technology and corporate hub, home to some of the highest concentrations of company head offices in the country. Firms along the Highway 7 and 404 corridors regularly send authenticated corporate records abroad to open subsidiaries, register products, or support employees taking international postings, while individual professionals need degrees and employment letters legalized for work visas.

Across Unionville, Milliken, Cornell, and the rest of York Region, newcomers settling civil-status matters in their country of origin and parents arranging documents for children studying overseas round out the steady local demand for correctly legalized Canadian paperwork.

Most Markham files begin with local preparation. Copies are certified or declarations sworn before an Ontario notary public or commissioner of oaths, while vital records such as birth and marriage certificates should be obtained as official certified copies from ServiceOntario rather than notarized photocopies.

Since Canada joined the Hague Apostille Convention on 11 January 2024, Ontario-issued documents can receive an apostille from Ontario's Official Documents Services, the province's designated competent authority. Federal documents, such as RCMP police checks, go through Global Affairs Canada instead. Which route applies depends on where your document was issued and where it will be used, and some files include documents from both categories, each routed to its own authority.

If the destination country — for example, mainland China for certain document types or another non-Convention state — does not accept apostilles, the document is authenticated first and then submitted for consular legalization at that country's embassy or consulate. Visa Jet confirms the correct sequence for your destination before anything is sent.

Visa Jet assists Markham clients with the personal, academic, and corporate documents most often required by foreign authorities.

Visa Jet is a private document-support agency — not a government office, embassy, or partner of Global Affairs Canada — and we do not operate a walk-in office in Markham or anywhere else. We work with clients across York Region entirely remotely, coordinating every step by email and secure courier.

We start by reviewing your destination country and document type, explain what notarization or certified copies you need locally, and then coordinate the apostille, authentication, or consular legalization steps in the right order, keeping you informed of where your documents are and what happens next. Contact our team at info@visajet.ca or +1 819-635-8787 from anywhere in Markham.