Requirements: personal presence, a valid ID (Czech citizens must present their Czech passport or  Czech ID, foreign nationals their passport), document that is to be signed (must be in Czech, English or French; your signature cannot be verified on a blank page or unfilled form); consular fee.

Consular fee

If you apply for a signature verification on the Confirmation of Living Form, you are exempt from paying a consular fee.

The fee is accepted in cash (CAD only), by bank card, by certified check addressed to the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Ottawa or by money order addressed to the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Ottawa.

A maximum 5 signatures can be verified within one appointment.

Additional notes: A signature verification conveys no judgement on the part of the authentication officer as to the validity or truth of an authenticated document. Only a signature, not the contents, is verified.

In case you cannot make it to our office in person, you can have your signature verified by a notary public/commissioner of oath and have his stamp subsequently superlegalized according to the instructions given below in section "superlegalization" (please do not forget to include in the envelope a fee for superlegalization). Documents superlegalized in this manner fully substitute a document with a signature verified by the Czech embassy/consulate. Please note that Canadian law requires that documents submitted in this manner are in English or French, or with English or French translation provided on the same, or with the initial document tightly connected sheet of paper.