Legal Documents

OLS Documents

Obtaining vital records and background checks from your home country can be a time-consuming and cumbersome process. Our experienced OLS Documents team, the document procurement division of Costa Rica Legal Experts, will help you get the documents you need from abroad, with the authentications required by local government agencies.

Order documents online at OLSdocuments.com. Document prices include:

  • Document procurement.
  • Authentication (legalization or apostille).
  • Shipping to Costa Rica or Panama.

We offer discount document prices to our immigration clients!

Timing the arrival of documents required for an application is often critical to the success of an immigration case. This is especially true in Costa Rica, where documents must be issued within six months of filing a residency application. We aim to make the immigration process as easy as possible for our clients, hence we offer discounted document procurement rates to our immigration clients.

Legal Document Procurement

Background Checks

Most of the time, when migrating abroad, a new background check will be required. In the case of the United States, the most appropriate thing to do is to produce a background check from the FBI, instead of a local background check. Currently, we provide fingerprinting services in all of Costa Rica. In other countries, you will need to obtain a set of fingerprints from the local police station. If you are in Costa Rica and would like to schedule an appointment to get your fingerprints taken click the button below to get started!

Birth Certificates

In many cases, the government agency requiring the birth certificate will require a new document. Thus, original birth certificates issued at the time of birth may not be valid for the purpose intended. Therefore, it will be required to obtain a brand-new birth certificate issued by the Department of Health or Vital Statistics from the state where you were born. While some states require various documents, forms, and Powers of Attorney to issue a new birth certificate, some other states are more accessible.

Marriage Certificates

Sometimes, a marriage certificate will be required to obtain immigration status for your spouse, as it will be required to demonstrate that you are currently bound in marriage.

Divorce Decrees

In some instances, it is required to produce a divorce decree for various purposes.

College Diplomas

If you are relocating to another country because of your work, and you need to obtain a work visa, you will probably need to produce your school diplomas and transcripts.

Death Certificates

Perhaps you need to initiate probate proceedings for a relative in a foreign country. In such cases, it will be required to produce a death certificate from the country or state where the event took place.

Due to a number of reasons,  you may need to produce some of these documents. If you are abroad, obtaining these documents may be cumbersome. Reach us today, and let us help you. We are able to obtain documents from any country in the Americas.

Apostilles & Legalization

If you were born in Colombia, your birth certificate is only valid in Colombia. If you went to school in Canada, your college diploma is only valid in Canada. If you were married in the United States, your marriage certificate will only be valid in the United States. If you live in Chile, but you have a house in California you need to sell, you will need to issue a Power of Attorney in Chile for your real estate agent in California.

When you are planning on using these types of documents in another country, these documents will require to be authenticated in order to be valid in another country. There are two types of authentications: the legalization and the apostille. If you already have a document you need to authenticate, we can help you.

Costs

The fees will vary depending on the country where the document must be obtained, and the type of document as well. OLS Documents prices include:

  • Document procurement.
  • Authentication (legalization or apostille).
  • Shipping to Costa Rica or Panama.

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