Introduction on Online Consular Legalization & Apostille System

Introduction on

Online Consular Legalization

& Apostille System

28 November, 2016

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Introduction

Service :

Date : Website :

Online Certificate Issuance

(Apostille & Consular Legalization) 2016.11.30 (Wed)

http://www.apostille.go.kr

Easy & Efficient & Trust-

worthy

Issuing the Public Document in KOREA

1. Most of public documents in Korea can be issued online.

(e-Government service).

2. Last year, more than 65,000,000 public documents had been issued at home.

인터넷 발급 화면

Automated public document issuance machine Issuing the document at home

Statistics: certificate issuance

2015 2014

281,662

2013 258,32

8

2007 64,389

2017 2016

Number of Issued Certificates in Korea

289,850

310,000 300,000

Consular Legalizations 190,000

Introduction of Online Service

http://www.apostille.go.kr/

1. For our people

Online Certificate Issuance Service

2. For your con- sul

Online Certificate Verification Service

①Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, French, Spanish ② ③ ④ ⑤ ⑥ ⑦

Multi Language Service

Key idea behind online certificate issuance

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea can get the records from the document issuance organizations through e-GOV platform.

e-APP

Unique Issued No.

Unique Issued No.

Issued Date Issued Date

Validity

(expire date & permission) Validity

(expire date & permission)

Information of Authority Information of

Authority

e-Public Document e-Public Document

e-Government

Supreme Court efamily.scourt.go.kr

Ministry of Justice enotary.moj.go.kr

National Police minwon.police.go.kr Ministry of Interior

www.minwon.go.kr

Another Authorities

* e-APP system can support electronic document file in certain circumstances.

Issuing Certificate on Internet

e-APP system can issue Apostille and Consular Legalization certificates by automatically extracting information on the underlying document.

e-APP

Issued Number of underlying

document Issued Number of

underlying document Issued Date of

underlying document Issued Date of

underlying document

Validity of underlying document (expire date & permission) Validity of underlying document

(expire date & permission)

Information of Authority - SEAL Image - Position of officer

& etc…

Information of Authority - SEAL Image - Position of officer

& etc…

Issuing the Apostille on Internet (1/3)

STEP. 1

Applicant

1. Select an Organization 2. Input the Issuance Num-

ber of underlying docu- ment

3. Input Captcha code e-APP System

4. Check the validity of doc- ument from the organiza- tion where the document was issued

STEP. 2

Applicant 1. Login

2. Input the information

• Applicant’s personal info.

• Submitting Country

3. Check the information on the document.

Issuing the Apostille on Internet (2/3)

Certification for Consular Legalization

e-APP system will issue a consular legalization certifi- cate, if the applicant selects the non-member of the Apostille convention as the submitting country

STEP. 3

e-APP System

Create the Forgery Prevention Measures

• Apostille Number

• QR Code

• High resolution 2D-Barcode

• Electronic Sign Applicant

Print out the Apostille certifi- cate & staple it with the under- lying document.

Issuing the Apostille on Internet (3/3)

e-Register ^(1/2)

STEP. 1

Foreign Officer

1. Input Apostille Number & Issued Date

2. Input Captcha code e-APP System

3. Check validity of Apostille.

STEP. 2-1

Foreign Officer

1. Check the full context of Apostille Certificate on the website

2. An officer can download PDF version of Apostille certificate to verify the submitted certificate.

3. The officer can visit the e- Register page directly with QR-code on the certificate.

e-Register ^(2/2)

STEP. 2-2

Foreign Officer

1. An officer can check the status of OLD Apostille certificates on the web site with the issuance number.

2. The e-APP of Korea sup- ports Additional Lv. e-Reg- ister for the verification of old Apostille certificates.

OLD

Apostille certificate

<Sticker Type>

e-Register for OLD type Apostille

Security

Advanced Lv. e-Register

1

Advanced Lv. e-Register

2D Barcode

3

QR-Code

2

cess the e-Register website using their smartphones

Foreign officers can verify contents of an Apostille certificate with a scanner & applications provided by Korea.

……

Support Multi-language

Foreign officers can fully verify Apostille certificates on the Internet.

e-Register verifies some information on the

underlying public document.

Each authorities provide the information on underlying public document on their web Service.