Hague Certification is the Hague Committee on Private International Law, an intergovernmental international organization. Its purpose is to solve the legal conflicts between countries by formulating conventions, so as to achieve the goal of gradually unifying private international law. Issued by national government agencies, the original certificate issuer is certified at the second level, and the certificate is stamped or labeled. This process is called countersignature (Hague certification).

Embassy certification is a multi-level certification process. General documents need to be certified by the Secretary of State of the issuing country, the State Council and the embassy or consulate of the target user country in the issuing country. The transfer procedure of consular certification system is complicated, which brings a lot of inconvenience to the communication between countries.

The similarity between the two is that they are both authentication systems for goods needed for the exchange of documents at home and abroad, and both of them only authenticate the issuer of yesterday's documents, not the contents of the documents.

The difference between the two is that the Hague certification saves some complicated steps of embassy certification, and the certification process is simpler, which improves the speed of document use and saves the time of the handler; It is important that the Hague certification can only be used among Hague member countries, and countries that do not recognize The Hague do not accept The Hague documents. Embassy certification is different. Embassy certification can only be used in the destination country and is not recognized in other countries. On the other hand, if the country you are using is not The Hague, you must apply for embassy certification.

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