Kuwait
- Method
- Consular chain
- Last reviewed
- Source
- kuwaitembassy.se
This page is a general overview of the corridor. The exact course of legalisation depends on the document: some stages, such as the DVV or notary certification, apply only to some documents. We confirm the document-specific stages after reviewing the document, before quoting.
Check these before ordering
Documents the customer printed themselves from the DVV e-service cannot be legalised. Typically birth and marriage certificates and register extracts.
Order a paper original from the DVV before starting the chain.
Universities' electronically verifiable certificates cannot be legalised. These are exactly what recent graduates hold.
An electronically verifiable certificate is not legalised directly. Whether a notary-certified paper copy is accepted instead depends on the recipient's requirements and is confirmed before the quote. Tell us in your quote request whether your certificate is electronically verifiable.
The signature the Ministry for Foreign Affairs legalises, an official's or a notary's, must be an original handwritten signature with the name printed. Without both it is not legalised.
If the document lacks the official's original signature (e.g. PRH's standard paper extract or a self-printed extract), the DVV notary can certify it first, and the MFA then legalises the notary's signature. Example: the office's completed case ran PRH → DVV → MFA. A signed official extract and a printout are different documents, and the procedure follows the document.
Steps and authority fees
Below are the fees charged by states. They are passed through at cost. Our standard service fee is EUR 100. Where a country package applies, the package price is confirmed separately.
01 Original documentNote: an apostille is NOT sufficient, Kuwait requires full consular legalisation | You provide |
02 Confirmation of the signatory's competence (DVV)Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV) Whether this step applies is decided by who issued the document (the Finnish MFA's own split): university, chamber-of-commerce and authorised-translator documents go straight to the MFA; private, company, AMK, vocational, upper-secondary and comprehensive-school documents need the notary first. Not always needed | € 27 per signature |
03 Finnish MFA legalisationMinistry for Foreign Affairs of Finland | € 30 per signature |
04 Embassy of Kuwait attestation (Stockholm)Embassy of the State of Kuwait, Stockholm The fee, its unit and the payment basis are confirmed with the mission before we quote. The mission's own table (in force from 2019-11-01) and our verified case are recorded in different currencies and on different bases, so they are reconciled with the mission before any figure is published. The document travels to Stockholm. The mission's processing time is two working days; transport and the earlier stages are not included in it. | confirmed in advance |
05 Destination MOFA attestationKuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Whether it applies is confirmed per document against the recipient's requirements. Done in the destination country Not always needed | confirmed in advance |
Quantity does not scale the price. Some fees are charged per signature and some per document, so the same bundle costs a different amount depending on how many signatures the documents carry.
Service boundary: stages performed in the destination country are not part of our service unless separately agreed. They are marked in the chain.