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Légalisation finale par le SPF Affaires étrangères (eLegalisation)

Service DFAT/SPF Affaires étrangères qui appose le dernier maillon de la chaîne de légalisation sur un document étranger destiné à être utilisé en Belgique, lorsque le pays d'origine n'est pas partie à la Convention de La Haye. Tarif fixe de 20 €/document. Disponible via le portail eLegalisation (autorité émettrice) ou au guichet à Bruxelles.

Identité et état civil Résidence et immigration

Authority: SPF Affaires étrangères, Commerce extérieur et Coopération au Développement

Applies to: anyone holding a foreign public document originating in a non-Hague country and needing the document to be usable by Belgian authorities

Last verified: 2026-05-12

Sources

  1. Federal anonymous form · priority 80

    Regions: brussels, flemish, walloon

    Kind: agent-walks-user-through-form

    Primary actor: both

    Handoff: confirmation

    Agent does: Explain that DFAT processes electronic legalisation requests via the eLegalisation portal, walk through the form fields (document type, issuing country, issuing authority, applicant address), and prepare the submission state.

    You do: Review the prepared submission, attach the scanned document, and click submit. Pay the 20 EUR fee at the payment step.

    To resume: Tell the agent when the confirmation page appears with the request reference. The agent records the reference and continues to the next chain step.

    The steps after authentication / handoff are described from documentation, not yet confirmed by a real Be Civic user. If reality differs, please tell us so we can fix the entry.

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    Notes: Probed 2026-05-12: HTTPS GET on elegalisation.diplomatie.be returns a redirect (single 'Redirecting' marker); not 404. Source harvested from be-civic-belgian-portals/outbound-merged.json (FL outbound link). DFAT page at diplomatie.belgium.be/fr/legalisation-de-documents confirms the portal exists and is the canonical electronic submission path: 'L'autorité émettrice du document électronique…introduira directement votre demande auprès de nos services via le site web eLegalization.' Per-class...

  2. Offline commune visitfallback only · priority 10

    Regions: brussels, flemish, walloon

    Kind: commune-visit

    Primary actor: user

    Handoff: physical-presence

    Agent does: Tell the customer the exact address (rue des Petits Carmes 27, 1000 Bruxelles), what to bring (the document with the foreign ministry's endorsement plus the Belgian embassy's endorsement already affixed), the 20 EUR fee, that cash is no longer accepted, and that an appointment may be required.

    You do: Travel to the DFAT Legalisations desk in Brussels, present the document, pay electronically, and collect the legalised document (same day for most cases).

    To resume: Tell the agent when the document has been legalised. The agent records the outcome and continues.

    The steps after authentication / handoff are described from documentation, not yet confirmed by a real Be Civic user. If reality differs, please tell us so we can fix the entry.

    Notes: Offline fallback per §6.12.4 invariant (handoff.when=physical-presence → source_class=offline, procedure.kind=commune-visit). Address sourced from diplomatie.belgium.be/fr/legalisation-de-documents — the canonical SPF Affaires étrangères Legalisations desk in Brussels. Fee confirmed via WebFetch 2026-05-12: 'Le prix par légalisation ou apostille est toujours de 20 euros par document.' Cash payment explicitly refused.