Apostille - The Hague Convention

THE  Apostille of the Hague Convention, that is,  System  electronic of  information and  Apostille  (SEI Apostille),  this treaty becomes less bureaucratic the  process for obtaining Italian citizenship  - and from over 100 countries.

Signed by Brasília in the year of its creation, 1961, the agreement was shelved in the  Congress  until July 2015, when it received Senate approval. In December, the  Itamaraty  entered the process to implement it, culminating in the publication of a decree by then-President Dilma Rousseff  on the 1st of February 2016.

The last few months were used for the country to adapt to the Apostille of the Hague Convention, which is now about to enter into force. "Brazil: From August 14th, the end of consular legalizations", he wrote on Twitter.  the ambassador of  Italy  in Brasilia, Antonio Bernardini.

The treaty extinguishes the validation and legalization phase in foreign diplomatic representations of documents necessary to obtain dual nationality - such as birth and marriage certificates.
The measure will also benefit commercial, legal and educational transactions, consolidating in a single apostille all the information necessary to validate a document in another nation that is part of the pact, including Italy. This apostille is a kind of certificate issued in the country of origin of the interested individual or legal entity and which guarantees the authenticity of the document in question.
This will make the process of obtaining Italian nationality less bureaucratic, but it will also apply to Italians seeking Brazilian citizenship. The issuance of these handouts will be under the responsibility of the country's registry offices, there are 15,000 extrajudicial registry offices distributed in all Brazilian states and municipalities. The expectation of the National Council of Justice  (CNJ)  is that everyone is already qualified to offer the service of issuing handouts.

                                               What changes ?

Currently, those interested in obtaining Italian Citizenship need to  validate  and  legalize  in the diplomatic representations of the European country all the necessary documents, such as birth, marriage and death certificates.

When the Hague Convention Apostille is implemented, the  Brazilian state  will issue a single apostille proving the authenticity of these documents. It will be valid in all signatory nations as  Italy, Albania, Germany, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Cyprus, South Korea, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, United States of America, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, India, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland , Portugal, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Suriname, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay and Venezuela. 

This will make the whole process a little less bureaucratic, but, importantly, there will be no change in Italy's criteria for granting citizenship to Brazilians. The rest of the process remains exactly the same.

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               JUDICIAL MAY  - NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUSTICE / RESOLUTION 228 OF JUNE 22, 2016.

                                    ON THE HAGUE CONVENTION.  

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