Birth Certificate apostille for Philippines.

Here's the honest answer: for the most common Philippine use, a Report of Birth for a child born in Florida to a Filipino parent, the Embassy in Washington's checklist asks for the original birth certificate and four photocopies, with no apostille listed. Florida falls under that Embassy. An apostille comes in when the certificate goes straight to an office inside the Philippines: a late registration handled there, a school enrollment, a court case or an immigration file. Ask that office first. If you do need one, we only file copies certified in 2014 or later.

English is an official language of the Philippines and Florida documents are issued in English, so Florida documents generally don't need a translation there. If a Florida document is in another language (for example, a notarized statement written in Spanish), our standard applies: a translator's certification, notarized by a different notary, with its own Florida apostille.