Florida apostille from Jacksonville, Duval County

From Jacksonville, a Honduras file still ends up on the same counter in Tallahassee. Jacksonville does not have its own apostille office. Nobody’s county clerk can put this stamp on. Duval court certified copies, NAS Jacksonville families, and First Coast exporters send clerk-certified packets to Tallahassee overnight.

Inbound from Jacksonville is about one business day. That is transit to our desk, not the whole job. After the paper arrives we file it with the Florida Department of State. Courier drops are generally ready the next business day. Then the stamped original has to travel back to Jacksonville. Add that return leg before you promise a consulate a date.

ZIP codes we actually ship into in Jacksonville include 32202, 32204, 32205, 32206, 32207, 32208. Put a street address on the return label, not a P.O. box, if the carrier you chose does not deliver to a box. The order email tells you where to send the original. Do not mail it to the Department of State’s public address and also to us. One path. One envelope.

Pack the FDLE background check flat. Do not laminate it to “protect” it. Do not staple through a seal. A cover sheet with your name, the order number, Honduras, and our phone number is enough. Photograph every page, front and back, before the envelope closes.

Honduras is in the Hague Apostille Convention. Honduran consular and RNP filings from Florida usually need an apostille on a birth record or a Florida-notarized power of attorney. The shipping city does not change that.

Court papers from this area have an extra stop before us. A divorce, adoption, name change, or guardianship has to be certified by the Duval County clerk. We cannot certify it for them. Build that week into the plan if you later add a court paper to the same shipment.

Florida charges $10 for the apostille on this paper. Our filing fee is separate, and so is return shipping. Our standard filing is $125 for the first document and $65 for each additional document in the same order. Rush is $199 and $85. The $20 PDF scan is optional and does not replace the original. Prices lists it without bundling the state fee into a fake flat rate.

Here is the same job as a week in Jacksonville, Duval County, not as a slogan. Monday, you already have the FDLE background check in your hand, or you are still waiting on the issuer and you do not pretend otherwise. You upload the photo. We either tell you to mail it or tell you what is wrong with it. Tuesday you ship, with the order number on the label. Transit from Jacksonville is about one business day. The paper reaches the desk, we compare it to the photo, and it goes to the Florida Department of State on the next business-day drop.

Honduras is in the Hague Apostille Convention. Honduras offices usually ask because of a family record, a school file, a company paper, or a power of attorney. When the stamped original is back in Jacksonville, that is the moment a translation can start, if Honduras asked for one. It is also the moment a PDF scan matters, if you bought the $20 copy so someone abroad can read the stamp before the courier arrives. The original is still the thing you carry to the appointment.

This week cannot start until the issuer has signed. This is a Florida Department of Law Enforcement criminal-history result, certified by FDLE. An FBI Identity History Summary is a federal paper. Florida cannot stamp the FBI result.

Can you apostille a FDLE background check for Honduras without a trip to Tallahassee? Yes. You mail the original. We file it. It comes back to Jacksonville with tracking. Honduras is in the Hague Apostille Convention.

How long from Jacksonville? Plan about one business day for the original to reach us, a business day at the state for a courier drop, and return shipping. Rush is for when that calendar is already tight and the paper is already clean.

Will Honduras accept a photocopy if the apostille is real? No. An FBI report never becomes a stampable original. Get a new certified copy instead of paying twice.

Tell the foreign office the truth about timing. “It is apostilled” means the certificate is attached and you have the original back. It does not mean you paid us this morning. Honduras will want to see the paper, not a receipt. If they need an advance look, add the $20 PDF on prices and still wait for the original before you travel.

One Florida document, one state fee, one apostille. There is no family rate at the counter that covers a spouse and a child on a single certificate. If three people need three birth records, that is three certified copies and three stamps. Set the order up that way. Several documents explains the invoice.

If a lawyer, a translator, and a courier are all in the email thread, pick one person to receive our questions. Three replies that contradict each other are how the wrong paper gets shipped. Put that person’s phone on the cover sheet. (855) 261-8500 reaches us during the business day if the thread is stuck.

Do not send gifts, cash, or a second “just in case” photocopy clipped to the original. The extra sheet looks like the document. We have separated them, and we would rather not. Send the original you want stamped and the cover sheet. Make spare copies after the apostille exists so the spare shows the stamp.

Check the destination one last time against the country list. A relative may have said “the embassy” out of habit when the country has taken apostilles for years. Honduras is the page that matches this guide. Habit is how people buy embassy legalization they no longer need, or a Florida stamp they cannot use.

When the original comes home, look at the attachment before you celebrate. The certificate should be fastened to the document, the seal visible, the name of the Florida official readable. If a page is missing, call us before you mail it overseas. Fixing a set that is still in Jacksonville is a different problem from fixing one that is already in a consular pouch.

Look at the document the way the counter will look at it. We make sure the sheet is the FDLE result and not a third-party website printout with the FDLE logo pasted on it. If you would be embarrassed to hand that sheet to a clerk, do not hand it to a carrier. Order a better copy first. The order form is for the paper you actually have, not the paper you plan to order next week.

Read this together with Honduras, FDLE background check, Jacksonville, Duval County, prices, how it works, the order form, all countries, Florida cities. Related guides: Cost and timing for a FDLE background check, Why a FDLE background check gets refused, How to apostille a FDLE background check, Florida birth certificate for Honduras. The phone is (855) 261-8500 and the email is floridafastapostille@gmail.com.

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