Short answer: yes, Florida does process apostille requests same-day — but only in person, at one counter, in Tallahassee. Here is exactly what “same day” means in practice, who can actually use it, and how we handle the Tallahassee trip on your behalf.
The state does offer same-day service — at one counter
The Florida Department of State’s own published FAQ confirms it directly: walk-in requests are accepted at the Division of Corporations Apostille Section, 2415 North Monroe Street, Suite 810, Tallahassee, and most requests are completed while you wait. The office is open Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm, closed on state holidays. There’s no published cutoff to guarantee same-day completion, and the state doesn’t disclose exact wait times — documents are handled in the order they arrive.
Why “same day” isn’t realistic for most people
To use the walk-in counter yourself, you need to physically stand in line in Tallahassee with your original document, a completed request form, and payment, during business hours on a weekday. If you live in Miami, Tampa, Orlando, or anywhere outside North Florida, the drive alone costs more time than the mail-in process saves. Mailing the form is the alternative most people actually use — and mail-in requests currently run about 25 to 35 business days, not same day.
How our Tallahassee ground team handles your apostille
This is exactly the gap our service fills. You ship your original document to us, and our Tallahassee ground team hand-walks it into the state office in person. Under the state’s current procedure, third-party services no longer receive while-you-wait processing — we drop off your document and collect the completed apostille the following business day. What isn’t same-day is the shipping on either end — your document has to travel to Tallahassee and your apostilled document has to travel back to you. That’s the honest reason our standard turnaround is about 6 business days, not same day: we submit the document in Tallahassee the same business day we receive it, collect the completed apostille the following business day, and the standard service also includes the shipping time needed to get the document to us and return it to you.
What actually determines your turnaround
Four factors decide how fast your document comes back, and none of them is the state counter — that part runs on a fixed schedule: we submit one business day and collect the next. How you ship your document to us is the first factor — standard shipping and standard FedEx 2-Day return runs about 6 business days total; upgrading the return leg to Priority Overnight brings that down to about 4. Whether your document is already notarized is the second factor — a document already notarized by a Florida RON notary, or a certified digital record from a courthouse or the Secretary of State, skips a step and also runs about 4 business days. The fastest path applies if your document still needs notarizing: our Online Notarization and Express Apostille service handles the notarization by video, and when we receive the eligible Florida RON document before 1:00 p.m. Eastern we submit it in Tallahassee that same business day. We collect the completed apostille the next business day and return it by FedEx Priority Overnight — about 3 business days total, since it removes the inbound shipping leg entirely.
The honest bottom line
If you can walk into the Tallahassee counter yourself during business hours with an original document and payment, you can genuinely get a Florida apostille the same day. Almost nobody outside the Tallahassee area is positioned to do that. For everyone else, “fast” means 3 to 6 business days depending on your document and shipping choice — and that is what we deliver, with the trip to the Tallahassee counter handled on your behalf.
Start now
Standard service starts at 199 dollars for the first document, all state fees included, plus 75 dollars for each additional document. Call 954-999-4933 or order online and we handle the trip to the counter.
Related guides
See our main Florida apostille service page, our Tallahassee apostille service for more on the walk-in process, or our cost breakdown to compare turnaround options.