AfghanistanDoes not use apostilles

Process

What applies instead

Documents issued in Sweden or Finland must be legalised by the legalisation section of the foreign ministry there before they are submitted to the Afghan embassy in Stockholm for authentication, and documents issued in Afghanistan are expected to have been authenticated first by the Consular Affairs Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan.²

Contacts

Who to contact

• Embassy of Afghanistan in Stockholm, Consular Affairs²

Status

How to check whether Afghanistan has joined

Countries join the Apostille Convention from time to time. The Hague Conference keeps the list of members in its status table. We last checked it on 18 October 2026, when Afghanistan was not on it.¹

Other direction

If your document comes from a member country

An apostille from a contracting party does not by itself make a document usable in Afghanistan. Ask the authority in Afghanistan that will receive the document which steps it requires. An apostille only confirms the signature, the role of the person who signed and any seal or stamp on the document. It does not confirm what the document says. The office that receives the document decides what it accepts.

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