Fees & Turnaround

Standard service takes two to three working days from submission. Express service is returned the same afternoon if lodged before 11:30. Postal submissions run five to ten working days including transit. A full door-to-door agency service anywhere in Thailand typically completes in three to five working days.

The statutory government fee is THB 200 per stamp (per document) for standard service and THB 400 per document for same-day express. Translation is billed separately by language and page count, and agency handling starts at roughly THB 1,500 to 2,500 per set including collection, submission and tracking.

Yes. Your representative needs a Power of Attorney with a THB 10 duty stamp plus certified copies of both parties' ID or passport. If you sign abroad, the signature must be witnessed by a Thai embassy or consulate, or notarized locally and then apostilled before it is sent to Thailand.

There is no closed roster, but the MFA reviews every translation strictly — name spelling must match the passport exactly, dates must be converted from the Buddhist to the Gregorian calendar, and layout must mirror the original. A single mismatch means rejection and another two to three working days, which is why experienced legalization translators are worth the fee.

Thai law sets no expiry on the stamp itself, but receiving authorities do: most European missions want documents issued or certified within three months, while US and Australian authorities usually accept six. Schedule legalization as close as practical to your filing date.

Most Bangkok missions — China, Vietnam, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar — accept submissions in the morning only, and several restrict counter access to agents registered with their consular section. Filing personally requires your original passport, the embassy's own form, and cash fees. A registered agent avoids the common rejection over form formatting.

Yes. We run the whole chain door to door nationwide: you send the originals with a power of attorney bearing a THB 30 duty stamp and a copy of your ID or passport, and we handle translation, certification, MFA filing and the destination embassy, returning everything by tracked courier. Standard routes finish in three to five working days.

The originals plus translations, a completed legalization application form, a copy of the document holder's ID or passport, the fee for the number of stamps requested, and a prepaid return envelope or courier waybill with a clear address. Adding a phone number and email lets the officers contact you about defects instead of returning the whole file.

If the file is refused at the intake counter before payment, nothing is charged. If a stamp has already been issued and the translation later has to be corrected, the corrected version is a new submission at the normal per-document rate, because the fee attaches to stamps issued rather than to submission attempts.

Fees follow the number of stamps issued, not the number of bundles. Certifying a translation is one stamp; certifying the issuing officer's signature on the original is another. Tell the counter exactly which certifications the destination requires so you neither overpay nor receive an incomplete set.

Order several originals from the issuing agency at once and legalize them in a single filing round, so you pay only the per-document fee without repeating travel and handling charges. Photocopies of an already-stamped document are generally refused abroad because the receiving office must see the original seal and signature.

Fees are charged per stamp, not per file. The standard rate is THB 200 per stamp and express is THB 400 per stamp, so a set of five documents needing both original and translation certified is counted as many stamps. Standard processing usually returns in two to three working days; express filed in the morning session is normally collectable the same or next working day. Rates and cut-off times can change, so confirm on the day of filing.

The MFA stamp itself has no expiry, but receiving authorities impose freshness windows. Many embassies accept civil-status documents issued and legalized within three to six months, and some marriage or immigration authorities insist on three months. Sequence the work so legalization finishes close to your filing date rather than a year ahead.

A power of attorney with a clearly defined scope, duty-stamped under Stamp Duty Instrument 7 (THB 10 for a single act, THB 30 for repeated acts), a signed copy of the principal's ID or passport page, and a copy of the agent's ID. Companies must also attach a DBD affidavit no older than six months, signed by the authorized directors with the registered seal.

The department offers queue booking and a postal legalization service for certain document types, which avoids counter queues. Turnaround is longer than in-person express and not every document type is eligible. For urgent or multi-stamp bundles, agent filing at the counter still gives the most predictable timeline.

Each mission sets its own rules. Typically: the MFA-stamped documents, a passport copy of the document holder, the embassy's own application form, and cash fees. Some accept submissions only in the morning, some only from registered agents, and some accept translations only from translators on their approved list. Check the mission's rules before fixing a filing date.

If no stamp was issued, the file is generally returned for correction and refiling, with fees for unissued stamps handled under departmental rules. The real cost is a lost cycle of several days. Checking the bundle against the receiving authority's checklist before the first filing is the lowest-cost safeguard.

1) District registrar certifies the original, 2) certified translation into English (sometimes Chinese), 3) legalisation at the Department of Consular Affairs, Chaeng Watthana, 4) attestation at the Chinese Visa Application Service Centre (CVASC). Standard turnaround is about 4 working days, express 2, with fees depending on document type and your nationality.

Germany usually runs a document verification procedure (Urkundenüberprüfung) through an embassy-appointed lawyer rather than a simple stamp. It typically takes 6-12 weeks and carries a substantial fee, so start at least three months before your deadline and prepare originals plus a German translation from an accepted translator.

The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Thailand performs the embassy function. Chain: English translation, MFA legalisation, then TECO attestation, usually 2-4 working days with a per-document fee.

Roughly THB 600-1,200 per document for China, Taiwan and Vietnam, THB 2,000-6,000 for most European and Middle Eastern missions, and considerably more for Germany's verification procedure. Always ask for a quotation that separates official fees from service fees.

A realistic planning formula is translation 1-2 days, MFA legalisation 1-3 days, embassy 3-10 days, international courier 3-5 days, so about 8-20 working days in total, excluding Germany and peak holiday periods.

MFA fees are charged per stamp, so binding reduces cost only when the recipient accepts a single certification with a cover page stating the page count. Banks and foreign company registrars usually want a stamp on each document because they file them separately. Ask the receiving party whether documents will be used independently; if yes, legalize per document. We assess this before filing so you neither pay for duplicate stamps nor have to refile.