Rush filing or standard filing | Florida Fast Apostille

Standard filing is $125 for the first document. Rush is $199. The difference is when we walk the paper in, not what the state does to it. Florida does not sell a faster apostille to people who pay more. Everyone at the counter is in the same civil line. Rush means we treat your envelope as the one that goes on the next business-day drop after it arrives clean.

Standard is the right choice when you do not have an appointment yet. The original still moves by a tracked carrier. You still get the same certificate. You still pay the same state fee. Choose standard on prices and spend the difference on the certified copy you might still need to order.

Rush is the right choice when a consulate, a closing, or a flight is already dated and the document is already in your hand and already the right kind of paper. It is the wrong choice when you are still waiting on vital records. We cannot rush a paper a clerk has not issued. Read booked appointments before you click the higher button.

Additional documents follow the same split: $65 standard, $85 rush. Do not put one rush document and one standard document in a single order and expect two clocks. Ask us if the set has to stay together. Contact is faster than guessing.

A refused document is not refunded into a rush credit. If the photo shows a photocopy, we do not take the rush fee. If you ship before we accept the photo, you are racing your own envelope. Order first.

The state’s next-day pattern for courier drops is the pattern we plan around. It is not a promise that every Friday afternoon file is back in your city on Monday morning. Add the return FedEx leg. From Jacksonville or Pensacola that leg is not the same as a handoff across town.

If someone offers a same-day Florida apostille by mail, they are describing a different procedure than the one the counter uses for courier drops. We file in person. We do not invent a same-day mail product the state does not run.

If you are ready to file a Florida document after this, start an order with a photo attached. Prices split our fee, the state fee, and shipping. How it works is the sequence from photo to return label. Questions that do not fit the form go to contact or (855) 261-8500.

Country rules still differ after the stamp exists. Browse countries for the destination on your checklist. Cuba does not take this stamp. Most other destinations our clients name are Hague countries and do.

Picture a normal week. Someone in Miami, Miami-Dade County emails a photo on a Monday. We answer the same day if the photo shows the seal. They ship Tuesday. The envelope is on the desk after about two business days. We file it on the next business-day drop, and the stamped original is labeled home after that. Nothing in that week requires them to take a day off and drive to Tallahassee.

The week goes wrong when the photo was of the wrong paper and they shipped anyway. Then we are holding an original we cannot stamp, and they are waiting on a carrier to bring it back before they can order the right one. That is a lost week. The photo first, the label second.

People ask if they can skip the photo. You can, and then the first time we see the defect is when the original is already in Tallahassee. Use the photo.

People ask if a PDF of the finished apostille is the same as the paper. It is not. The $20 scan is a convenience. The original is the filing.

People ask if every Florida city has a different price. No. Prices are the same in Miami and everywhere else in the state. The carrier’s quote changes with the address. Our filing fee does not.

A photo review is a real review. We are not collecting pictures for a gallery. If the picture is dark, crooked, or missing the page with the seal, send another one before you buy a label. The seal page is the page. A beautiful first page with the seal cropped off tells us nothing.

Keep the certified copy flat in the envelope. Folding through an embossed seal cracks it. People then ask if the crack “still counts.” Do not find out. A rigid mailer costs less than a new certificate. Vital records are on security paper that shows a crease forever.

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. Mexico 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. Mexico 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 Miami is a different problem from fixing one that is already in a consular pouch.

Read this together with Mexico, Florida birth certificate, Miami, Miami-Dade County, prices, how it works, the order form, all countries, Florida cities. Related guides: When the consulate appointment is already booked, Documents issued outside Florida, Hospital birth certificates cannot be apostilled, How to read a Florida apostille refusal. The phone is (855) 261-8500 and the email is floridafastapostille@gmail.com.

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