Legalisation

What is Legalisation?

Legalisation confirms that a document was issued by someone with the authority to issue it and that the signatures it bears are genuine. Some documents need to be signed by several different authorities in order to be legalised. This is called the legalisation chain.
This page tells you what you need to do to get Dutch or Iranian documents legalised for use abroad.

Iranian documents for use in the Netherlands

Iran has not signed any legalisation treaty. As a result the Netherlands Embassy in Tehran is responsible for legalising Iranian documents for use in the Netherlands.

Please follow the legalisation chain as follows:

1. A document in Persian and/or in Arabic script first needs to be translated by an official or sworn translator into English.
2. Then the translator’s signature needs to be legalised by the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
3. The Dutch Embassy in its turn will legalise the signature of the authorised official who signed off on the document at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Now the document may be legally used in The Netherlands.

Iranian documents that are legalised for use in The Netherlands, will receive an Embassy Legelisation Statement. This statement is attached to the document and needs to be partly filled out by the applicant before it can by used in The Netherlands.

Dutch documents for use in Iran

For information on Dutch documents needed for use in Iran, please consult:

The Legalisation Division of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Open for telephone inquiries from Monday to Friday from 09.00 to 12.30.
Telephone 070 348 4787 or 5901
Fax 070 348 6675
Email: Dpv-fb@minbuza.nl

Postal address:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
DPV/DF - Legalisaties
Postbus 20061
2500 EB The Hague
The Netherlands

Address for visitors:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Bezuidenhoutseweg 67
2594 AC The Hague
The Netherlands

Certificate of Good behaviour (Non criminal record)

You may apply for a Certificate of Good Behaviour with the Civil Registration Office (Gemeentehuis) of the municipality of your last registration.

For questions concerning the Certificate of Good Behaviour, please contact:
COVOG
PO BOX  16115
2500 BC, The Hague
Telephone: +31 70 370 7234
E-mail:  frontdesk-dbz@minjus.nl
Internet:  www.justitie.nl/themas/vog

For general information, brochures and application form, please see:
 Ministerie van Justitie website

After receipt of this document this Embassy can issue an additional statement of good conduct for the period you resided in Iran.

Tax and Social security number

The Tax and Social security number (SoFi nummer) is a personal identification number, which is issued for every taxpayer by the Tax Administration.

In the following situations you should have a tax and social security number:

• you live or are staying temporarily in the Netherlands and you are taxable in the Netherlands
• you live abroad and you are taxable in the Netherlands.
• If Dutch nationals want to enrol in school.

For more information about the SoFi nummer and how to apply for it while abroad, please see: belastingdienst (link)

Translators 

The following translators have asked to be put on this list of Translators for your reference and are not in any way affiliated to this Embassy. The Embassy does not accept any responsibility for the quality, level, result, fees, behaviour and or any other matters related to these persons/offices

Mr. Alireza HASSANI
Official English translator to the Justice Adminsitration of I.R. Iran
Next to Astara Cinema
Tajrish Sq. Tehran
Tel. 021 22711578, 22743305, 22743307

Mr. Hooshang Tavangar
Official Translator to the Judiciary of I.R. Iran
No. 85, Hedayat (Darrus)
Yakchal, Shariati Ave
Tehran
Tel. 021-2559830
Fax. 021-2856439
Email:  httavangar@hotmail.com

In The Netherlands

Dr. Ali Soleimani
Orientalist en beedigd tolk/vertaler
Jansoniusplein 19,
9203 NH Drachten
Nederland
(Sworn translator for: Dutch, Persian, (Farsi en Dari), Turkish, Arabic and Azerbeidzjan (Azeri en Azerisch)