In French: apostille means certify, authenticate or complete. Aims to simplify legalizing the documents issued in any country by a registered or recognised institute.Once a document is apostilled it is recognised or considered legal in countries listed in Hague countries which includings India. Countries which are part of hague convention does not require further attestation from embassy after apostillation done t the document. Simple apostille is enough to validate documents.

1. Collect all the original documents you want apostille, and supporting documents as mentioned above.

2. There are 2 ways of doing the attestation,
   1)State attestation ---> Notary ---> HRD attestation --->MEA Apostille. This is a longer process requires 1 month to get whole thing done. Higher cost as well.
   2)SDM attestation --->Notary ---> SDM attestation ---> MEA apostille. This is a faster and cheaper process many contries accept this verification except Austria and Italy where there is a chance of 90% acceptence. 10% of the document will be rejected (only in Austria and Italy other contries are okay with this process no rejection)

3. Difference between those 2 ways.
   Apostille which involves State attestation where state authority has to attest for the document.This attestation takes longer because your documents will be sent to the authorities which issed the document. There will be 3 to 4 verifications this will cause delay in the process.
   
   In case SDM attestation which bypasses the state attestation, Sub Divisional Magistrate will authenticate your document, this does not take much time, so this is a faster process. all the Hague convention countries will accept this except Austria and Itally where acceptance rate is 90%.
   In both the cases MEA apostille is provided.

4. In the first way where state authority is involved, go to concerned state authority and submit the document pay a nominal Verification fee.wait for 1 week or so collect it back.If you have completed it then directly Register for apostille.

5. Submit the original document at Regional commissioner office carry originals and one photocopy. Carry required documents mentioned above.

6. Get a seal from Notary in your region.

7. Submitbmit the documents to HRD department and get HRD seal on the document for Apostille.

8. Finally submit the documents to MEA, you must go through some agencies to get Apostille.Wait for 1 week maximum.