Legalisation

1. Legalisation of an official public document issued by a foreign authority
1.1 Official document issued by Indian public authorities need not get these documents legalised from the consulate.

Most common are certificates of civil status (birth/marriage/death certificates), diplomas, police clearance certificate and affidavits.These documents only require a single legalization (Apostille) issued by the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi . Additional legalisation by the Belgian Consulate/Embassy is not required anymore.

              Coordinates of the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India
Address: Joint Secretary (Consular), MEA. CPV Division,Patiala House Annexe Tilak Marg New Delhi India 
Telephone: +91 11 2338 8015
 Fax: +91 11 2338 8385
 E-mail: jscons@mea.gov.in / dcpf@mea.gov.in
Website: http://mea.gov.in / http://mea.gov.in/apostille.htm

1.2 Official documents issued by other foreign public authorities

Please consult www.diplomatie.be, Legalisation, in order to find out whether legalisation is required.

2. Legalisation of other types of documents

Most common are the medical certificates issued by the approved doctors of the Belgium Consulate in Mumbai and the formal obligations signed by the financial guarantors. Others may be documents for commercial and administrative purpose in which a person’s signature requires to be certified by the Consulate.

The Consulate General of Belgium, Mumbai has authorised the Belgium Visa Application Centres in Mumbai and Bangalore to collect documents that need to be legalised. The documents will be sent to the Consulate for legalisation on the next working day after they have been submitted and VFS will charge a nominal service charge of Rs.190/- (inclusive of all taxes) per document.

Applicants will continue to have the option of submitting their documents for legalisation at the Consulate directly.

•  The Bank Draft for legalisation has to be favoring "Consulate General of Belgium, Mumbai A/C No 1080273 at ABN AMRO Bank” for Rs. 680/- per Bank Draft per document.

•  Alternative payment option is available at the Belgium Application Centres for payment of legalisation fees at a service charge of Rs. 56/- (inclusive of service tax) per document.

•  The VFS processing fee of Rs. 190/- per document can be paid in cash.

•  You have the option of requesting for a courier return of your documents at an additional cost of Rs. 200/-.

•   If the documents are not legalised by the Consulate, they will return the Bank Draft. However, VFS processing fees will not be refunded.

•  The processing time is one working day (after submission at the Belgium Visa Application Centre) for documents submitted in Mumbai and two working days (after submission at the Belgium Visa Application Centre) for documents submitted in Bangalore.

•  For counter collection of documents, please bring your receipt with you at the time of collecting your documents. Collection timings will be between 1630-1730 hours in BOM and between 1530-1630 hours in BLR, Monday - Friday.