Florida apostille for ZIP 34996 — Stuart, Florida

ZIP 34996 in plain words

ZIP 34996 is a mailing zone for Stuart in Martin County, in Treasure Coast. The foreign-use stamp for a Florida document is still added only in Tallahassee. From 34996 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 Stuart address.

Indian River, St. Lucie, and Martin counties are a two-day ship. Snowbirds and families sending documents to Latin America should use tracked shipping, not loose mail.

Shipping from 34996

Inbound from 34996 is about two business days. 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.

Martin County rules still apply

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

Documents from 34996 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 34996.

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