APOSTILLE FOR CHINA · HONOLULU & HAWAIʻI
Mail-in Apostille assistance for Honolulu, Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi residents who need eligible U.S. documents prepared for use in China.
Private mail-in assistance — no Honolulu walk-in office
CHINA APOSTILLE UPDATE
The 1961 Apostille Convention entered into force for China on November 7, 2023. Eligible U.S. public documents for mainland China generally use an Apostille from the competent U.S. authority instead of the former Chinese consular legalization chain.
An Apostille authenticates the origin of a signature or seal. It does not certify the truth of the content, provide legal advice, or guarantee acceptance. Confirm the required version, issue date, translation and attachments with the receiving organization in China.
HAWAIʻI OFFICIAL ROUTES
Hawaiʻi has no Secretary of State office. The Lieutenant Governor serves the state-document authentication function, but the route changes with the issuer and notarization.
Official rules reviewed: August 17, 2026
DOCUMENT TYPES
Select the document family for general preparation guidance. Final eligibility is confirmed during document review.
We review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: confirm the issuing agency and the notary’s registered state.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: federal authority; Hawaiʻi cannot Apostille the federal signature.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: federal authority; Hawaiʻi cannot Apostille the federal signature.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: federal authority; Hawaiʻi cannot Apostille the federal signature.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: federal authority; Hawaiʻi cannot Apostille the federal signature.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: federal authority; Hawaiʻi cannot Apostille the federal signature.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: federal authority; Hawaiʻi cannot Apostille the federal signature.Start This ServiceWe review the document form, signature or seal, and the competent state or federal route before submission.
Common use: employment, marriage, property, banking, education, inheritance, or business matters in China.Issuer hint: federal authority; Hawaiʻi cannot Apostille the federal signature.Start This ServiceHAWAIʻI PROCESS
Identify the issuer and notarization state.
Classify the document as Hawaiʻi public, Hawaiʻi notarized private, another-state, or federal.
Obtain the correct original, certified copy, or properly notarized document.
Complete any required Circuit Court verification.
Create an order and wait for case-specific mailing instructions.
Mail only to the address displayed in the customer account.
Our team reviews, submits, tracks and securely returns the document.
EDUCATIONAL RECORDS
Diplomas, transcripts, enrollment letters and other school records may need registrar preparation and Hawaiʻi notarization before Circuit Court verification. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by any university named on this page.
PRIVATE SERVICE FEES
standard
$200per documentexpedited
$280per documentexpress
$380per documentReturn shipping: one flat $25 fee per order.
Processing estimates begin after complete and acceptable documents are received. Government processing, Circuit Court verification and shipping times are not guaranteed. Hawaiʻi currently estimates 7–10 business days and offers no government expedited service; our service levels are private handling priorities, not government speed options.
Hawaiʻi government Apostille fee currently: $3 per document. Circuit Court, record, third-party and shipping fees are separate.
LOCAL SERVICE AREAS
The City and County of Honolulu covers Oʻahu. Hawaiʻi communities are generally neighborhoods, communities or Census Designated Places rather than separately incorporated cities.
Identify the issuer, obtain the required original or certified copy, complete any Hawaiʻi notary and Circuit Court steps, then submit to the competent authority. Create an order before mailing documents.
The Hawaiʻi Office of the Lieutenant Governor authenticates eligible Hawaiʻi state documents for overseas use.
No. The Lieutenant Governor performs the state-document authentication role commonly handled by a Secretary of State elsewhere.
The Lieutenant Governor has a government office in Honolulu. Apostille for China is a separate private mail-in assistance service and has no Honolulu walk-in office.
Yes. The state accepts qualifying submissions by mail, and our private service is also structured as mail-in assistance.
Potentially. A certificate issued after January 1, 2025 may be sent directly if it bears the State Registrar signature and Hawaiʻi Department of Health embossed seal; otherwise follow the current vital-record ordering route.
The current official rule says a record issued before January 1, 2025 must be replaced through the Hawaiʻi Department of Health Apostille process. Recheck the official rule before ordering.
Often, after the school prepares the record and a Hawaiʻi notary properly notarizes it. The notary signature then generally needs Circuit Court verification.
If it is a private document notarized by a Hawaiʻi notary, the Lieutenant Governor currently requires the relevant Circuit Court to verify the notary signature and stamp first.
No. The competent authority in the issuing or notarizing state generally handles that signature.
An FBI report is federal and generally follows the U.S. Department of State route, not the Hawaiʻi Lieutenant Governor route.
For eligible U.S. public documents used in mainland China, the Apostille Convention generally replaces the former consular legalization chain. Confirm special recipient requirements.
The receiving organization decides. Confirm whether it requires a full translation, certified translation, translator statement, or a particular format.
Our private service estimates are about 2 weeks, 1 week, or 3 days after acceptable documents arrive, but Hawaiʻi government, Circuit Court, and shipping times are separate and not guaranteed.
Private service levels are $200, $280, or $380 per document, plus one flat $25 return-shipping fee per order. Government, court, and third-party fees are separate.
No. The Lieutenant Governor currently estimates 7–10 business days and states that no expedited service is available.
No. It authenticates the origin of a signature or seal; the receiving organization decides whether the document, version, translation, and attachments are acceptable.
No. Create an order first and wait for the case-specific mailing instructions shown in your account.
PRIVATE MAIL-IN ASSISTANCE
Customers create an order and mail eligible documents according to case-specific account instructions. Our team reviews the documents, identifies the state or federal route, submits eligible documents, tracks progress and securely returns completed documents.
Create an order first. Your account will show the mailing instructions for your case.
