Hollywood Notary.Net

Why use Hollywood Notary.Net to get your Apostille?

We make it easier and faster for you to get an Apostille from the California Secretary of State! We are listed as a Service Provider with the California Secretary of State. We have 3 years of experience in getting Apostilles from clients all over the world, and in providing excellent customer service. Having worked in Customer Service for Disney and Fed Ex for a combined 21 years of service, owner David L. Ransom Jr., who has been a California Notary Public since 2005, strives to provide customers with the same level of excellent service that he provided to his customers (and guests) at Disney and Fed Ex (or exceed it)! David's current Notary Commission expires on Nov. 5, 2013. Our prices are competitively low to others companies, and our prices include fees charged by the Secretary of State (and, if applicable, the Los Angeles County Clerk). We are located in the Mid-City section of Los Angeles (near the 10 freeway and Crenshaw Blvd.), and we are open for local orders to drop off your documents in person at our Adams Blvd. location between the hours of 8AM and 11:30PM (by appointment only). We mail or ship most orders, but we allow you to pick up your Apostilled documents at our Adams Blvd. location if you wish. We save you money over most other Apostille services, and we generally provide superior service. We strive to keep you notified on the status of your order, and we try to do everything right the first time. We have obtained Apostilles and Certifications from the California Secretary of State for our California clients as well as for clients who reside in other countries all over the world, including Costa Rica, Russia, Mexico, Argentina, South Korea, France, Italy, the Ukraine, China, and the United Kingdom. We are a listed Service Provider on the State of California Secretary of State's website. You can find us on the website of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, where we have been a proud member for the last 3 years. We email our clients when their documents have shipped (with the tracking numbers), and we call our local clients to let them know when their documents have been shipped or are ready for pick up. We also don't mind if you call us on the phone with questions about your order- we will provide you with the status of your order immediately. We also provide several affordable Apostille and Notary Authentication Services (for people who aren't in such a hurry to get their documents back, and want to save some money on Apostille services!)

Why You May Need An Apostille or Certification

If your official certified or notarized documents are going to be used outside of the United States, they will frequently need an Apostille or Certification. The Secretary of State of California issues Apostilles and Certifications for documents for which they authenticate the signatures of certain public officials, such as Notaries Public, County Clerks, Clerks of the Superior Court and Judges of the Superior Court. Such documents include Birth Certificates, Death Certificates, and Marriage Certificates, documents notarized by California Notaries, and Court Orders from the California Superior Court. Other documents that the Secretary of State issues Apostilles and Certifications for include documents signed by certain State of California public officials. Some Certified documents require additional legalization from a Consulate or Embassy for use in the destination country.

The State of California's Secretary of State's office in Sacramento officially says that they take up to 2 weeks to process mailed orders for Apostilles and Certifications on documents which require signature Authentications, including documents signed by County Clerks and Notaries Public in California.

If you need to get an Apostille faster than the 2 weeks that it takes the California Secretary of State's office in Sacramento, Hollywood Notary.Net offers Apostille Services that will get your documents Apostilled and delivered back to you faster, and on a time-definite basis. We process your order by personally delivering your documents to the Secretary of State's office in Los Angeles, where we wait for processing and send the documents back to you.

We can get an Apostille on any document in California that has been authenticated by a County Clerk in California, for any of the 58 California Counties. Your signature or authentication by the County Clerk must have been obtained within the last 5 years in order to be accepted by the Secretary of State.

Payment

We accept credit card payments(VISA, Mastercard, Discover, American Express, Diner's Club) through Pay Pal on this website. We also accept company checks (for large, well- known public companies) as well as U.S. Postal Money Orders and International Money Orders. Please make all checks and Money Orders payable to "Hollywood Notary.Net". Please use our Apostille Order Form Page to pay for your Apostilles by credit card, and to print out the Apostille Service Order Form.

Shipping and Mailing Address
All orders (except for walk-in orders by appointment) should be mailed or shipped to the following address:

David Ransom
Hollywood Notary.Net
1650 Virginia Rd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019

Our phone number is (323)393-5822.

We offer several convenient professional Apostille Services to get a California Apostille or Certification on your documents from the California Secretary of State! All services for notarized documents include one free notarization for each document (if needed, only if you come to our office at 4025 W. Adams in Los Angeles by appointment only). We can also get Apostilles on Certified Documents from all other Counties of California, as long as they have been certified (within the last 5 years) in the County in which the document was issued by the County Clerk-Recorder.

We can obtain get Apostilles for documents which have been signed and/or authenticated (within the last 5 years) by the county clerks of the following California Counties: Alameda County, Alpine County, Amador County, Butte County, Calaveras County, Colusa County, Contra Costa County, Del Norte County, El Dorado County, Fresno County, Glenn County, Humboldt County, Imperial County, Inyo County, Kern County, Kings County, Lake County, Lassen County, Los Angeles County, Madera County, Marin County, Mariposa County, Mendocino County, Merced County, Modoc County, Mono County, Monterey County, Napa County, Nevada County, Orange County, Placer County, Plumas County, Riverside County, Sacramento County, San Benito County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, San Francisco County, San Joaquin County, San Luis Obispo County, San Mateo County, Santa Barbara County, Santa Clara County, Santa Cruz County, Shasta County, Sierra County, Siskiyou County, Solano County, Sonoma County, Stanislaus County, Sutter County, Tehama County, Trinity County, Tulare County, Tuolumne County, Ventura County, Yolo County, and Yuba County.
For Los Angeles County documents, while your Certificates should be issued within the last 5 years to be accepted by the Secretary of State (and signed by County Clerk Conny B. McCormack or Dean Logan), I can accept County Clerk-certified Los Angeles County Birth and Death Certificates older than 5 years for Apostilles, but you must pay $40 more for required extra processing and handling. Legalization of documents from Consulates of several countries is also available. Please read the details below. Call David at (323)393-5822 to place your order.
To set up an appointment to drop off your documents in person, call David at (323)393-5822, or send an email to: hollywoodnotary@gmail.com. Calling the phone number will be faster, and is preferred! You can always pay right here with the Pay Pal button below, once you have spoken with us and you know your total:

We charge $5 for all orders for shipping via United States Postal Service Priority Mail. We pay for insurance for all orders sent by Priority Mail (at no additional cost to you). You can always use your Fed Ex, DHL, or UPS account number for return shipment of your documents. Your documents will be shipped to you on the same day the Apostilles or legalizations are obtained. Call (323)393-5822 to use our service now!

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1-Day Fast Apostille Service
We will get your Apostille within 24 business hours of our receiving your documents. Simply call (323)393-5822 for an appointment, and bring your documents to our office, located at: 4025 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90018, which is located right off the 10 Freeway (Santa Moncia Freeway) near the Crenshaw Blvd exit. You can also ship or mail your document to our shipping address, at 1650 Virginia Rd. (see below).

Pricing is as follows:

Your first Apostille costs $160 if it requires Notary Authentication (for notarized documents from Los Angeles County or Orange County. We do not perform Notary Authentication for any other California County). Additional Apostilles are obtained for $50 each. This includes all fees that we must pay to the agencies.

Your first Apostille costs $110 if it is Certified by the county clerk/recorder in your California-state county. These documents include notarized documents that have been authenticated by your county/clerk-recorder, Marriage Certificates, Birth Certificates, Death Certificates, and Court Orders which are signed and stamped by your county clerk-recorder.

All additional Apostilles for 1-day service are $50 each.

All documents are shipped back to you using the United States Postal Service's Priority Mail Service, which includes delivery confirmation. We charge a mandatory $5 for this service, unless you opt to provide us your Fed Ex, UPS or DHL account number for your package to be returned, or if you provide other payment for another form of shipping. We pay for insurance when we ship your Apostilled documents back to you using Priority Mail, at no additional charge to you, using the amount of money you paid to us as the insured amount. This service is available for documents from all California Counties (including Kern County, San Luis Obispo County, Tulare County, Inyo County, Ventura County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, Kings County, Monterey County, and Orange County), provided that the documents have been signed or authenticated by the County Clerk's office in the origin County within the last 5 years. For Los Angeles County Birth and Death Certificates, the Certificates can be older than 5 years, but a $40 handling and processing fee will be charged for obtaining a Certificate of Exemplification of the Health Officer who signed the document. Also, please ensure that your documents have been stamped by the Los Angeles County Clerk/Recorder.

Economical 3-Day Apostille Service for Los Angeles County Certified Documents, Orange County Certified Documents and Certified Documents from Other State of California Counties
If you want to save yourself time and money on getting your Apostille (and getting your document notarized), use my convenient, Economical 3-Day Apostille Service. With this service, we will get your Apostille between 1 and 3 days, and send it to you. Use our Apostille Service Order Form to place your order. You can also make an appointment by calling David at (323)393-5822, to drop off your documents at our Los Angeles location:

4025 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90018 (located off the 10 Freeway near the Crenshaw Blvd. exit).

Our shipping address is:

Hollywood Notary.Net 1650 Virginia Rd. Los Angeles, CA 90019

Your documents will be ready for pick up from our office (by appointment) within 3 business days, and we will call you as soon as your documents are ready for pickup! I can also mail or ship your documents back to you using the shipping method of your choice (you will pay for shipping!)

For this service, you will pay $95 total, for the first notarized Los Angeles County or Orange County document that needs an Apostille, or $85 for the first County-Clerk/Recorder Certified Document (and $50 total for each additional Apostille). You will pay $5 for USPS Priority Mail shipping (or supply us your Fed Ex, UPS or DHL account number). Note: these are your TOTAL fees. It includes the counter fees charged by the Los Angeles County Clerk and the counter fees charged by the Secretary of State.

Concierge Apostille Service
For our Concierge Service, we will drive to your location (up to 15 miles one-way, $2 per additional mile one-way), notarize up to 10 documents free of charge ($10 per additional signature), and take your document to the County Clerk (if applicable) and/or the Secretary of State to obtain your Apostilles or Certifications, and we will drive your documents back to you within 24 business hours. The fee for this service is $220 plus the actual charges to be paid to the Secretary of State or Los Angeles County Clerk, plus any additional mileage fees. For people who are adopting children, it's important for you to know that my Notary Commission expires November 5, 2013.

Legalization Services
For documents which need to be legalized at an Embassy or Consulate, , the total charge is $260 for the first document and $40 for each additional document, and you will receive the document when the legalization process is complete (it can take a week or more sometimes, depending on the country's embassy or consulate. You will be advised when the documents will be ready after our visit to the embassy or consulate). Note: on rare occasions, the Secretary of State or Los Angeles County Clerk's office can experience computer and/or power outages, which may cause a delay or disruption to this service. If this is the case, you will be notified immediately. Hollywood Notary.Net will still be owed the full amount agreed to in any case of delay due to circumstances beyond its control.

Sending Documents To Us By Mail or Overnight Delivery
For customers who are not dropping off their documents in person, (such as clients from outside of California, or clients from other countries), you can send your documents to us and use one of the services listed on this page. Your documents will be shipped back to you with Fed Ex or USPS Priority Mail. Please call or email us for a quote and for verification of the documents before shipping any documents to us. Our email address is:

hollywoodnotary@gmail.com

Our address for mail and shipping overnight deliveries is:

Hollywood Notary.Net
1650 Virginia Rd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019

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