[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 22, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 22CFR92.39]



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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS

 

                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE

 

PART 92_NOTARIAL AND RELATED SERVICES--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  92.39  Authenticating foreign public documents (Federal procedures).



    (a) A copy of a foreign public document intended to be used as 

evidence within the jurisdiction of the Federal Government of the United 

States must be authenticated in accordance with the provisions of 

section 1 of the act of June 25, 1948, as amended (sec. 1, 62 Stat. 948, 

sec. 92(b), 63 Stat. 103; 28 U.S.C. 1741). This provision of Federal law 

provides that a copy of any foreign document of record, or on file in a 

public office of a foreign country or political subdivision thereof, if 

certified, by the lawful custodian thereof, may be admitted in evidence 

when authenticated by a certificate of a United States consular officer 

resident in the foreign country, under the seal of his office.

    (b) The consular officer's certificate should indicate that the copy 

has been certified by the lawful custodian.

    (c) In the absence of a consular officer of the United States as an 

officer resident in the State of the Vatican City, a copy of any 

document of record or on file in a public office of said State of the 

Vatican City, certified by the lawful custodian of such document may be 

authenticated by a consular officer of the United States resident in 

Rome, Italy (22 U.S.C. 1204).