Apostille for Ukraine: U.S. documents in the state that issued them, Ukrainian ones only in Ukraine

Checked against the official pages on 22 October 2026. How we check.

The Embassy explains it through the Hague Convention that abolished legalization: a document from a member state has the force of an official document in Ukraine once it carries the apostille, and the Embassy points U.S. applicants to the apostille offices of the states (Embassy page, in Ukrainian).

U.S. documents going to Ukraine

The apostille is issued by the authority of the state where the document was issued. The Embassy’s page links the apostille offices of a number of states, among them:

The links are those on the Embassy’s page (Embassy page, in Ukrainian). For every state and territory, the table that follows gives the authority the U.S. has declared to the Hague Conference.

Who puts the apostille in each state

The list the U.S. has declared to the Hague Conference (HCCH), last updated on 2 September 2026 (HCCH list):

Documents issued by federal agencies, such as an FBI background check, get their apostille from the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Authentications, not from a state (HCCH list).

The translation needs its own apostille

For citizenship files, Ukrainian offices go one step further. A birth certificate gets its apostille, then a notarized Ukrainian translation of the certificate and the apostille, and then a second apostille on that notarized translation.

The Embassy will not accept the translation apostilled before the certificate or on the same day (Embassy page, in Ukrainian).

The same chain applies to marriage certificates and background checks in a territorial-origin file (Embassy page, in Ukrainian).

The alternative for the translation is a notary in Ukraine. For a renunciation file, the Embassy also certifies the translation itself for $50 (Embassy page, in Ukrainian).

Ukrainian documents going to the U.S.

The ministry that apostilles a Ukrainian document depends on who issued it (Embassy page, in Ukrainian):

For documents of justice bodies, courts, archives and notaries, an individual pays 670 hryvnias for applications filed from 1 January 2026 (Embassy page, in Ukrainian).

If you order a Ukrainian civil-status document through the Embassy and want it apostilled, the consular fee is $50 instead of $20, plus the apostille duty paid separately to the State Treasury account (Embassy page, in Ukrainian). See documents from Ukraine.