KenyaDoes not use apostilles

Process

What applies instead

Kenyan documents are certified by the issuing authority and then authenticated by the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs through its online platform, after which the embassy or consulate of the destination country in Nairobi performs the consular legalisation; for foreign documents to be used in Kenya, the Kenyan embassy in Stockholm asks for an original issued by a competent government authority that bears the stamp of the foreign ministry of the host country, and it authenticates the document for a fee of SEK 100 per document within 24 hours.²

Contacts

Who to contact

• Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs of Kenya, online authentication platform²

Status

How to check whether Kenya 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 Kenya 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 Kenya. Ask the authority in Kenya 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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