Florida apostille for ZIP 33616 — Tampa, Florida

ZIP 33616 in plain words

ZIP 33616 is a mailing zone for Tampa in Hillsborough County, in Tampa Bay. The foreign-use stamp for a Florida document is still added only in Tallahassee. From 33616 the working path is: photo or scan of the document, card payment, tracked envelope to our desk, we stand at the state counter, tracked return to your Tampa address.

Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and Brandon use overnight FedEx. A large share of files here go to Colombia, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. Hillsborough and Pinellas court documents must be stamped by that county’s clerk first.

Shipping from 33616

Inbound from 33616 is overnight. Use a tracked envelope. Write the order number on the shipping label. Do not send the only original by untracked mail.

Put the certified original in the envelope — not a photocopy, not a screenshot, not a laminated card.

Hillsborough County rules still apply

Birth, marriage, and death records from this ZIP must be certified Florida copies. Court documents must be stamped by the Hillsborough County clerk. Powers of attorney must be notarized in Florida.

Documents from 33616 often go to Venezuela, Colombia, and Peru. Those countries take the Florida stamp. Cuba does not. FBI reports cannot be stamped in Florida.

What happens after you pay

We email the shipping address for the original. You ship. We check the document against the scan. If something is wrong, we call before we waste a trip to the counter. If it is clean, we file it and send it back to 33616.

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