Several documents in one Florida order

You can send more than one Florida document in the same order. The first is $125 on standard, or $199 on rush. Each additional document is $65 or $85. Each one still pays its own state fee, $10 or $20. People save money on our line and still owe the state per stamp. That is the correct invoice. Prices shows it.

Each document needs its own photo and its own description. “Family papers” is how a death certificate gets treated like a birth certificate. Name the person and the document type. The order form has room for that. Use it.

The documents do not have to be the same type. A birth certificate and a power of attorney can travel together if they are for the same destination and you want them back in one package. If one of them is not ready, do not hold a finished vital record for a power of attorney that a signer has not signed. Split the order. A consulate date cares about the paper you already have.

Court papers in the set need the clerk’s certificate before they join the envelope. Do not clip an uncertified divorce to a certified birth record and call it one shipment. The birth record can go now. The divorce can go when the clerk is done. See court printouts.

One destination per set is the clean way to work. If a mother is filing for Mexico and a company paper is for Brazil, those are two stories. The stamps look the same. The translations and the offices do not. Separate cover sheets at a minimum.

We review each photo. One bad page does not doom the others if we can tell them apart. Label them so we can. A refusal on a photocopy should not delay a clean certificate that was sitting underneath it.

Return shipping is usually one label back to you. If two relatives need two addresses, say so before we create the label. Changing an address after the carrier has the package is a claim, not a quick edit. How it works is still the same sequence, repeated per document.

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.

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.

Look at the document the way the counter will look at it. We look for the state seal, a readable name and date, and a paper that is still a certified copy rather than a scan you printed at home. 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.

The cover sheet can be plain. Your name, the order number, the destination, and a phone that you answer. Write Mexico on it so a second document in the envelope does not get paired with the wrong country. Do not include a narrative of the family history. The examiner does not read it, and it sometimes gets stapled to the document by accident.

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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