Certified True Copy of the original, issued by a Notarial Services Attorney registered with the Lawyers Council of Thailand. Required by embassies, foreign banks, USCIS, and as the input to any MFA Apostille chain on passports and IDs.
NYC charges THB 300/copy (THB 250 for 10+). The attorney compares copy to original, stamps “Certified True Copy of Original” with signature and date. Works for passports, IDs, birth certificates, house registrations, diplomas, transcripts.
1) Certified True Copy — attests the copy matches the original, not the content. 2) Certified Signature — attests a signature belongs to a named person. 3) Notarial Attestation — attests a fact (e.g. signed in Thailand). Three separate services, three separate fees.
1) Passport (visa applications). 2) Thai ID (contracts). 3) House registration (marriage filings). 4) Birth certificate (child citizenship abroad). 5) Diploma + transcript (WES/ECE). 6) Bank statement (visa financials). 7) Marriage / divorce certificates.
Many countries want Apostille on a Certified True Copy, not the original — MFA cannot Apostille a passport book itself. Chain: 1) attorney CTC, 2) Lawyers Council, 3) MFA Apostille, 4) destination embassy (if needed). NYC handles all four steps for THB 3,500-5,500.
USCIS (I-130), UK Home Office (Skilled Worker), Australia DHA (with DFAT authentication), Canada IRCC, Japan Immigration (long-term visas).
1) Original must be current (not expired). 2) Passports must be valid. 3) Documents older than 10 years may need extras. 4) Foreign-language documents need Thai translation first for local use. 5) Thai CTCs are accepted worldwide, but some US states and Canadian provinces require a domestic notary.
Attorney must sight the original — a scan is not accepted.
NYC copies at THB 3/page; existing scans checked for clarity.
Page-by-page verification against the original.
“Certified True Copy of Original” stamp, attorney signature, date, and bar-registration number.
Original returned with the certified copy — ready to file.
No. Receiving authorities and the consular department inspect the original wet seal and attorney signature, so a scan or a photocopy of a certified copy will be refused: it cannot prove the attorney sighted the original. If you are upcountry or abroad, send the originals by registered post and we return the certified set the same way.
Only a certified copy of the biodata page. The passport book itself cannot be apostilled, because the consular department can only certify loose sheets bearing a certifier's signature. The workable route is a photocopy of the biodata page, attorney certification that it is a true copy, then consular legalisation or apostille on that set.
The attorney's certification carries no statutory expiry. In practice, however, embassies, courts and foreign registries commonly insist the document was issued within the last three to six months. Confirm the receiving party's window before you start, so you are not paying for the same chain of certifications twice.
Usually yes, same day. Certifying a true copy takes roughly 15-30 minutes per document when there is no queue, provided you bring the original plus the holder's ID or passport. If consular legalisation or an apostille follows, add the consular department's own processing window, which we confirm before starting the file.
No. Lawyers Council rules on notarial certification require the attorney to physically sight the original before signing, so scan-only certification is not permitted and would be rejected at destination. The practical alternative is registered post or courier for the originals, with the certified set returned the same way.
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