What is apostille?

Apostille is a way of verifying the documents whether they are given from genuine authority or not. Nowadays anyone can make fake documents. The country you are travelling will ask you to get apostille because authorities wants to to make sure that you are submitting the original documents.
The Apostille is done by Ministry of external affairs only. This is the highest level of authentication for any document. Once you submit the documents for authentication your documents will go through many concerned departments to make sure that the document is genuine.

Ways to get Apostille Marriage certificate

Basically there are two ways of getting apostille from MEA

State Attestation

All the documents issued in india relates to some states in India.
In this method of apostille State government has to verify the document authenticity first.
State authentication will be done by the secretariat of the district in which the document is issued.
The apostille Marriage certificate is provided only after state verification is done.

There are many government bodies are involved in this process.
This process will take 30 working days to complete the whole process.

State verification in detail

SDM verification

State attestation takes a lot of time, there is a shorter way to get apostille marriage certificate from MEA through SDM verification.
In this kind of verification your documents are submitted with Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM).
Once the SDM verification is done then the document is submitted to MEA for apostille.

Apostille marriage certificate reasons to get it.