# Apostille in U.S. Virgin Islands - **Source:** https://andrii.co/en/handbook/apostille/us/us-virgin-islands/ - **Title:** Apostille in U.S. Virgin Islands — United States | Andrii Co. - **Language:** en · also published as Markdown at /{lang}/handbook/apostille/us/us-virgin-islands/index.md for: en > Apostille guide for U.S. Virgin Islands, United States: the competent authority is USVI Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Notary Public Division. Verified 2026-08-09. Everything below is transcribed from this office's own published sources and printed in its words. A value we could not confirm against an official page is marked "(unverified)" — but the absence of that marker is not a guarantee that a fact was checked, and the source's own doubts stay inside the notes reproduced here verbatim. Confirm fees, addresses and deadlines with the office before you send documents or money. - **Jurisdiction:** U.S. Virgin Islands, United States - **Verified as of:** August 9, 2026 > **⚠ Convention acceptance of a USVI "apostille" is not guaranteed** > Because HCCH lists no designated USVI competent authority, acceptance of a Lt.-Governor-issued "apostille" abroad is not guaranteed under the Convention; some receiving authorities/practitioners treat USVI documents as needing an alternative route (e.g., certified copy re-issued/notarized in a US state or a federal-agency copy apostilled by the US DoS). No official US DoS statement on a federal fallback route for USVI territorial documents was located (unverified). For FEDERAL court documents in the USVI, the clerk of the U.S. District Court of the Virgin Islands IS an HCCH-listed federal competent authority — that route is Convention-solid (see us/federal-courts) ## Who issues the apostille USVI Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Notary Public Division HCCH: "no authority designated" for USVI on the official US authorities page. Despite that, the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Notary Public Division in practice issues certificates titled "Apostille or Authentication" for USVI documents and publishes official instructions — see the advisory on this entry ## Which documents this office will accept - **From the source:** Submit request form + original document (notarized by a USVI notary or bearing the authorized signature/raised seal of the issuing USVI agency) + ID copy + payment + self-addressed trackable return envelope; office visit or mail ## Certifications you may need first No additional certification step is required before the apostille. ## The request form A PDF request form. Download: https://ltg.gov.vi/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/English-Apostille-Form-10.2024.pdf Request form (10/2024). Instructions (8/2023): https://ltg.gov.vi/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Apostille-and-Certification-Instructions.pdf; process overview: https://ltg.gov.vi/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Lets-Review-Apostille-Process-.pdf ## Requesting online There is no online request route — this office takes requests on paper. ## Where to go in person - **St. Thomas** — 5049 Kongens Gade, St. Thomas, VI 00802 Open for walk-in service. Hours: Mon–Fri 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Phone 1 (340) 774-2991 ext. 4120 - **Christiansted, St. Croix** — 1131 King Street, Suite 101, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI 00820 Open for walk-in service. Hours: Mon–Fri 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Phone (340) 773-6449 ## What it costs - **$25.00 USD** per document — "$25.00 per document". Fee schedule: https://ltg.gov.vi/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Notary-Division-Schedule-of-Fees-41122.pdf ## How to pay - **By mail:** money order, cashier's check, or card payment - **Make it payable to:** Government of the Virgin Islands — copy that exactly as written. - Money order, credit card (authorization form), or cashier's check payable to the Government of the Virgin Islands — channels not itemized in source (money order/cashier's check shown under mail; credit card rides an authorization form, channel not itemized) ## Where to send your documents No mailing address is published for this office. Do not send original documents anywhere until you have confirmed the address with the office itself. ## How long it takes - **By mail:** "5-7 business days." (stated for submissions generally — office visit or mail) - self-addressed trackable return envelope ## Checking status and verifying an apostille - No public verification register is published for this office. That is not the same as an apostille being unverifiable — ask the office how it confirms one. ## Remote online notarization Our source's remote-notarization survey covers the 50 states and the District of Columbia, so it records nothing for U.S. Virgin Islands. That is a gap in the source — not a statement that remote notarization is, or is not, available here. ## Other things the source says Submission is by "office visit or mail" — the source designates no single mailing address; both division addresses are in offices[] > **RCW 42.45.230(5):** I am not an attorney licensed to practice law in this state. 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