Getting an Apostille

[doncoulter]

First, ditto everything laconstance says.

Regarding the translation, generally the agency that requires the apostille will tell you which translator to use. When I got married, the Registro Civil in Guanajuato insisted that the translation be done by a particular person who worked at the Centro de Idiomas at the university. The translation was a very simple job (and, really, unnecessary, as any fool could have understood my extremely short and simple birth certificate), but the RC would accept no substitute for its official translator.

Of course, as with all things bureaucratic, here or elsewhere, YMMV.

Don