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Vietnam are joining the Hague Apostille Convention

A few week back, it was announced that Algeria were joining the Hague Apostille Convention in an effort to simplify their document attestation process. Now, the HCCH (‘Hague Conference on Private International Law’ -I don’t know how they get HCCH from that either) have announced that Vietnam have also submitted their application to join. In…

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Algeria joining the Hague Apostille Convention: What does it actually mean?

Recently, Algeria submitted their application to join the Convention of 5th October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents – otherwise known as the Hague Apostille Convention. That’s all well and good – but, like, what is it? What does that mean? Does it affect anything? What happens now? Don’t worry –…

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