India-issued · for use abroad

Medical Certificate
Apostille in India

A medical certificate from a private practitioner is a private document and needs a notary before the SDM; one issued by a government hospital may be treated as a public document. Which of the two you hold decides the route, and it is worth establishing before you pay for anything. Most of these are fitness certificates for employment or study, and most carry a short validity window at the destination.

All-in price

₹2,100per document

Processing

3–7 working days

plus courier transit

Govt fees shown at costSDM route · not 10–20 daysNo email gate on pricing

Check this first

An apostille only works for Hague Convention countries.

There are 130 Contracting Parties as of 30 June 2026. If your medical certificate is going to the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt, Malaysia, Iraq or Iran, an apostille is not valid — you need embassy attestation instead, which is a different process. Check your destination before you order.

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The Correct Route

Who Issues an Indian Medical Certificate

Issuing Authority

A registered medical practitioner or a government hospital, carrying the practitioner's registration number and the institution's seal

A medical certificate is a privately-made document, not a government record. That is why it must be attested by a Notary Public before the SDM will pre-authenticate it. Skipping that step is the most common reason a first attempt fails.

Step by Step

How the SDM Route Works for a Medical Certificate

1

Notary Public

Same day

A Notary Public attests the certificate and the practitioner's signature. A certificate issued by a government hospital under its own seal may not need this step — send us a scan and we will confirm.

2

Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM)

3–7 working days

The SDM verifies the notary's signature, or the government hospital's seal, and attests the certificate.

3

Ministry of External Affairs

1–2 working days after deposit

The MEA verifies the SDM signature against its records and affixes the apostille sticker with its QR code. The MEA accepts no document directly from an individual, so we deposit through an MEA-authorised collection channel.

SDM or State Home Department?

Personal documents can be pre-authenticated by either the SDM or the State Home Department. We default to the SDM because it is materially faster, and because the slower route rarely buys the customer anything. The exception matters though: some destination countries and some receiving institutions specifically require Home Department attestation, and getting that wrong means running the whole process again.

Pre-authentication authorityTypical timeWhen it applies
SDM Our default3–7 daysThe standard route for personal documents
State Home Department10–20+ daysWhere a destination or institution specifically requires it

Tell us the destination country and the receiving institution when you order and we will confirm which route yours needs before anything is submitted. If it needs the Home Department, we will say so — quoted on request.

Medical Certificate Apostille by State

The SDM is a district-level officer, so the office that pre-authenticates your medical certificate follows the district where it was issued — not where you live now. The Home Department alternative is state-level. Both routes end at the same MEA counter, and our price is the same from every state.

Medical Certificate Apostille in Telangana

Issued by
GHMC or the relevant municipality / gram panchayat
Home Department route
General Administration Department, Government of Telangana (Hyderabad)

Hyderabad births are registered by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. A hospital-issued discharge slip is not a birth certificate and cannot be apostilled — the GHMC-issued certificate is the one that can.

Medical Certificate Apostille in Andhra Pradesh

Issued by
The municipal corporation, municipality or gram panchayat of registration
Home Department route
General Administration Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh (Amaravati)

Records for births before the 2014 bifurcation may sit with the authority in the district as it then stood. Tell us the district and year and we will confirm which office holds it.

Medical Certificate Apostille in Maharashtra

Issued by
BMC in Mumbai; the relevant municipal corporation or gram panchayat elsewhere
Home Department route
Home Department, Government of Maharashtra (Mumbai)

Mumbai civil records are issued by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Documents registered in Pune, Nagpur or Nashik follow their own corporations, not BMC.

Medical Certificate Apostille in Karnataka

Issued by
BBMP in Bengaluru; the relevant municipal body elsewhere
Home Department route
Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Government of Karnataka (Bengaluru)

Bengaluru records come from the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike. Degrees from Karnataka universities take the HRD route rather than the SDM route — that is a different service, quoted on request.

Medical Certificate Apostille in Tamil Nadu

Issued by
Greater Chennai Corporation, or the municipality / panchayat of registration
Home Department route
Public (Political) Department, Government of Tamil Nadu (Chennai)

Tamil Nadu civil records are commonly issued in Tamil. Where the receiving authority abroad requires English, a certified translation is needed — the apostille does not translate anything.

Medical Certificate Apostille in Kerala

Issued by
The local self-government body — corporation, municipality or panchayat
Home Department route
General Administration (Political) Department, Government of Kerala (Thiruvananthapuram)

Kerala has among the highest volumes of documents going abroad, much of it to Gulf states. Several of those — the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait — are not Hague parties, so an apostille has no effect there and embassy attestation is required instead.

Medical Certificate Apostille in Gujarat

Issued by
The municipal corporation or gram panchayat of registration
Home Department route
Home Department, Government of Gujarat (Gandhinagar)

Documents issued in Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara each come from their own municipal corporation. Confirm which body issued yours before ordering a fresh copy.

Medical Certificate Apostille in Punjab

Issued by
The municipal corporation, council or gram panchayat of registration
Home Department route
Department of Home Affairs and Justice, Government of Punjab (Chandigarh)

Chandigarh is a Union Territory administered separately from Punjab and Haryana. If your document was issued in Chandigarh itself, the UT administration holds it, not the Punjab department.

Medical Certificate Apostille in Haryana

Issued by
The municipal corporation or gram panchayat of registration
Home Department route
Home Department, Government of Haryana (Chandigarh)

Gurugram and Faridabad records come from their own municipal corporations. As with Punjab, documents issued in Chandigarh itself follow the UT administration.

Medical Certificate Apostille in Uttar Pradesh

Issued by
The Nagar Nigam, Nagar Palika or gram panchayat of registration
Home Department route
Home Department, Government of Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow)

Late-registered births are common in UP and the certificate will say so. That does not prevent an apostille, but some receiving authorities ask for supporting evidence alongside it — tell us if yours is late-registered.

Medical Certificate Apostille in Rajasthan

Issued by
The municipal corporation, council or gram panchayat of registration
Home Department route
Home Department, Government of Rajasthan (Jaipur)

Rajasthan issues many civil records in Hindi. Where the destination requires English, budget for a certified translation in addition to the apostille.

Medical Certificate Apostille in Madhya Pradesh

Issued by
The Nagar Nigam, Nagar Palika or gram panchayat of registration
Home Department route
Home Department, Government of Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal)

Indore and Bhopal records come from their own municipal corporations. Documents from smaller districts follow the local body that registered them.

Medical Certificate Apostille in West Bengal

Issued by
Kolkata Municipal Corporation, or the municipality / panchayat of registration
Home Department route
Home and Hill Affairs Department, Government of West Bengal (Kolkata)

Kolkata civil records are issued by the KMC. Bengali-language certificates need a certified translation where the destination requires English.

We do not publish state office addresses here because they change and a stale address is worse than none — check the current one on your state portal, or just send the document to us and we will route it. Stamp-paper values and notary charges are set by the state and vary; we confirm those at order.

What about e-Sanad?

Individual practitioners are not e-Sanad issuing authorities. Some government hospitals may be reachable through state systems, but assume the physical route.

e-Sanad is the government's own free platform for digitally verifying documents from onboarded issuing authorities. Where it covers your document and your destination accepts it, it is genuinely the better option and we will tell you so. It is not a replacement for a physical apostille sticker in most cases.

Pricing

What a Medical Certificate Apostille Costs

Government feesAt cost

MEA apostille ₹50 + authorised-channel collection ₹84 + scanning ₹3/page

₹143

Veritas service fee

SDM pre-authentication, authorised-channel deposit, handling and tracking

₹1,957
Total per document₹2,100

Courier

Quoted before payment, charged at what it actually costs

At cost

Notarisation

Required for this document before the SDM stage

Quoted at order

The same ₹2,100 applies to every personal document we handle, whatever its page count. Most sites in this market either publish no figure at all or put their calculator behind an email form — on searches where the whole intent is to find out what it costs. Government fees are reproduced from mea.gov.in and passed through at cost. See the full charges breakdown.

When It's Needed

Why People Apostille a Medical Certificate

Employment abroad

Employers and licensing bodies frequently require an apostilled fitness certificate before a work permit or contract is finalised.

Student visas

Some universities and student-visa routes require a medical fitness certificate in authenticated form.

Insurance and immigration medicals

Supporting documentation for a foreign insurer or immigration medical assessment.

Variants & Edge Cases

Which Medical Certificate Do You Actually Have?

This is where applications fail, and it is almost never the apostille itself. Find your case below before you courier anything — a rejected document costs a full second run, not a correction.

Medical fitness certificate

The most common form — a declaration that the holder is fit for employment or study. Make sure it states what the destination asked it to state; a generic fitness note may not satisfy a specific requirement.

Government hospital issued

Where the certificate carries a government hospital's official seal, it may be treated as a public document and skip the notary step. Practice varies by SDM office — send a scan first.

Private practitioner issuedOften rejected

Needs notarisation before the SDM. The practitioner's registration number must appear on the certificate, or the notary may decline.

Certificate older than the destination allowsOften rejected

Medical certificates are commonly treated as valid for three months at the destination. The apostille does not extend that. Sequence the apostille so the certificate is still current on arrival.

Not sure which you have? Send photos on WhatsApp — we check before you courier anything, and we will tell you if the answer is that we cannot help.

Requirements

What to Send Us

1

The original medical or fitness certificate on the practitioner's or hospital's letterhead

2

The practitioner's registration number and signature on the certificate

3

A photocopy of your passport (photo and address pages)

FAQ

Medical Certificate Apostille — Common Questions

Does a medical certificate need notarisation before apostille in India?

Usually yes. A certificate from a private practitioner is a private document and needs a Notary Public before the SDM. A certificate issued by a government hospital under its own seal may be treated as a public document and go directly to the SDM — practice varies, so send us a scan and we will confirm before you courier the original.

How long does a medical certificate apostille take?

3–7 working days of processing, plus courier transit. Notarisation, where needed, is same-day.

Does an apostilled medical certificate expire?

The apostille does not, but the certificate usually does in the eyes of the receiving authority — three months is a common window. Plan the timing around when it will be filed, not when it was issued.

Hague Convention figures verified against theHCCH status tableon 30 June 2026. Government fees from mea.gov.in, same date.

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Medical Certificate?

₹2,100 per document, 3–7 working days processing. We check your document for free before you courier anything.

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