officialization

[avers]

Can i use the word officialization in English when making reference to documents that need to be issued or made official?

I need a response asap..thanks

 

[winklepicker]

Nope. Not in my country anyway.

Give us the context or explain what you want to say and we'll advise.

 

[Robbo]

Probably "authorisation" or "authorization".

Depending on context and meaning needed, perhaps "authentication" or even "validation" or "endorsement".

Context is needed to answer properly.

 

[supercyxo]

It looks like you can use it. You can look it up on dictionary.com. However, I don't imagine it being a very popular word to use.

 

[stranger in your midst]

Documents from foreign countries which require to be made offcial in the Uk have to be 'notarised'. I can't speak for our Amrican or Autralian brethren. The process involves a 'notary public' (usually a lawyer who has been granted the privilege of administering oaths (and charging for them !)) countersigning the document and affixing an 'apostil' to it, i.e. rubber-stamping it as official.