IRS AUTHENTICATION SERVICE
Before the document is sent to the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs, it needs to be stamped at a Notary office if our client requires to authenticate a COPY of the document.
IRS - Authentication Service can only legalize documents with Canadian signatures. We do not review or approve a document’s content. The notary detect the document’s content if is misleading. The notary will not stamp if he or she believe that a document is to be used for a fraudulent purpose. The document will not be authenticated. You will be informed if this is the case.
Photocopies of original documents can be authenticated. However, they must be certified true copies, signed and sealed by a Canadian notary or commissioner of oaths. IRS - Authentication Service makes the photocopies and makes them properly certified, signed and sealed by a notary officer.
A copy certification is performed to confirm that a reproduction of an original document is true, exact and complete. Such originals might include college degrees, passports and other important one-and-only personal papers which cannot be copy-certified by a public record office such as a bureau of vital statistics and which the holder must submit for some purpose but does not want to part with for fear of loss.
Fore more information on other steps to follow for authenticating documents :
613 710-5662
Ottawa
