Apostille & Document Legalization for Romania — from Canada

Canada's Romanian community regularly needs life events recorded on both sides of the Atlantic. A marriage, birth, or divorce that happened in Canada must often be transcribed into Romanian civil records, and the Romanian registrar or consulate will want the Canadian certificate apostilled and accompanied by a certified Romanian translation before it will act.

Visa Jet prepares these transcription files document by document: the long-form Canadian certificate from the provincial vital statistics office, the apostille from the issuing province's authority, and Romanian translation coordinated so names and diacritics match the family's Romanian records exactly — a detail Romanian offices genuinely check.

Much of our Romania work involves matters handled at a distance: an apartment in Bucharest being sold, farmland inherited from grandparents, a succession opened before a Romanian notary public. The standard instrument is a power of attorney signed in Canada — notarized, apostilled, and translated into Romanian — authorizing a relative or lawyer in Romania to act. Notaries in Romania are precise about how these are drafted, so the text usually comes from the Romanian side.

We take the notary's draft, arrange execution and notarization in Canada, obtain the apostille, coordinate the certified Romanian translation, and courier the instrument to Romania — a chain we run routinely for succession and real-estate files.

Canadians of Romanian descent pursuing redobândirea cetățeniei — restoration of Romanian citizenship — need Canadian civil documents prepared to Romanian standards: apostilled long-form birth and marriage certificates, sometimes police checks, each with certified Romanian translation. The applications themselves run through Romanian authorities and often through lawyers specializing in the process.

Visa Jet's role is strictly the documents: we prepare, apostille, and translate the Canadian records your Romanian lawyer or the authority requests. We do not assess eligibility, complete citizenship applications, or provide immigration advice — the file's legal side belongs to the Romanian authorities and your counsel.

Romania is an Apostille Convention member, so since Canada joined on 11 January 2024, Canadian public documents for Romania need a single apostille — provincial authority or Global Affairs Canada depending on the document — rather than consular legalization. What makes Romanian files distinctive is the translation layer: Romanian institutions almost universally require certified Romanian translations, typically by an authorized translator, covering the document and its apostille.

We sequence the chain accordingly — certificate, apostille, then translation — so the translation captures everything and nothing is redone.

Romanian registrars, notaries, and institutions most often request from Canada:

Canadian citizens travel to Romania visa-free for short stays — Romania now applies the Schengen framework — so visas arise mainly for long stays and for permanent residents or foreign nationals in Canada whose nationality requires one. Visa Jet assists with organizing those applications while the decisions remain with the Romanian authorities.

The document service is fully remote across Canada: email what the Romanian registrar, notary, or lawyer has requested to info@visajet.ca or call +1 819-635-8787, and we will run the apostille-and-translation chain end to end.