FDLE Background Check apostille for Mexico.

Honestly, Mexico seldom asks for a Florida criminal record. The temporary-resident visa checklists we've reviewed at Mexican consulates focus on economic solvency, not police records. It still comes up now and then: a Mexican school hiring a foreign teacher, an adoption file handled through the DIF, or a state office with its own list. When it does, ask whether a state-level FDLE record is acceptable or whether they want the FBI check, which we don't handle. An FDLE record can only be apostilled if it was notarized when FDLE issued it.

Our general rule is a translation certified by the translator, notarized by a different notary and apostilled in Florida. Mexico is the big exception: notarios, courts and Registros Civiles usually require a perito traductor authorized by a state Tribunal Superior de Justicia instead, done in Mexico after the apostille. Mexican consulates in the U.S. generally don't ask for a translation of English documents, and SEP revalidation accepts a simple translation.