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My mum provides an excellent definition of apostille in her comment to my earlier post. I had never seen the word until it began to crop up in my professional listserv in discussions of student visas to Russia. There was panic that the russkys were actually enforcing some of their more arcane visa rules one of which required getting an apostille on each student's application documents (including, may I note, and HIV test certificate). Said apostille must be issued by the lieutenant governor of the great state of Utah. As if I don't have anything better to do than behave like some 19th century penitent traveling to the seat of power to receive benediction on my documents...