Certified Translation Services for People – Wedding, Property, CVs, Education…

User-friendly Certified translation, Notarized & Sworn translation, Statutory declaration (affidavit). BS EN ISO 17100 accredited.

Personal certified translation for property & qualifications, wedding translation, CVs, birth & marriage certificates, education, property deeds etc. Helping families since 1990.

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We welcome anything which improves the confidentiality of client’s personal data, and more detail can be found on our GDPR page.

Our personal certified translation services have been helping families with certified translation, sworn and notarized translation services and statutory declaration /affidavit services for life documents for over 30 years.

Over 2,500 people have benefited from our friendly helpful team’s experience in wedding translation, birth, death and marriage certificate translation, property and qualification translation, CVs and other life documents, and we’re helping more every week.

“‘Certified translation’ is what exactly?”

Certification validates the translation for legal use, such as marriage. The requiring authorities should tell you whether they need certified, sworn or notarized translation services – if they don’t say, ask them!

You may sometimes also need statutory declaration (affidavit). Marriage, birth & death certificate translation usually only needs certification.

As a Translation Company (NOT just an Agency – important!) we certify in-house stamping and signing each page; translation FROM English receives bilingual certification, in English and the target language.

You receive 2 copies of your certified translation; we retain another 6 years for you. A (small) certification fee applies. You’ll also receive a Translator’s Certificate of qualifications and accuracy – keep this, it’s the legal provenance.

“And notarized translation?”

Criminal court use may demand notarized translation. The translator must attend a Notary Public to swear professional qualification and translation accuracy; the Notary verifies identity, attaching a notarial certificate to the translation.

One bound master of translation + certificate is made – that’s the ONLY legitimate copy and MUST stay intact. We keep a copy, but lost documents will need re-notarizing. Costs depend on Notary fees.

“Then there’s Sworn translation?”

Some countries insist on sworn translation for legal use, translated by their ‘registered’ translator who’ll stamp and certify the translation. We provide sworn translation, but you need to make sure ours is acceptable in the country concerned and that they won’t insist on using their own translator – some do.

“So what’s Statutory Declaration?”

This replaced the Affidavit. Sworn by the translator before a solicitor/magistrate, it attests to accuracy and provenance and is accepted in England and Wales, being bound with the original as one document.

“Wow. And Legalisation?”

Complicated… some UK documents for use abroad require prior legalisation by the FCO – information’s on their website. We can’t offer legalisation, but do translate the resulting legalisation apostille.

“So what would wedding translation include?”

Anything you need – marriage certificate translation of course is key, but we’ll also handle translation of orders of service, invitations, correspondence and more.

IMPORTANT: Note that some countries insist on a sworn marriage certificate translation by one of their own approved translators – please do check!

Disclaimer: please understand that legal requirements for life document translation vary with country and application, and may change.

We strongly recommend confirming with the relevant authorities what’s needed, before contacting us. It is the client’s responsibility to instruct us correctly.

Please understand that we can accept no responsibility where we are incorrectly instructed.

For a better language solution for your needs, drop us a few details (in total confidence of course) and we’ll get straight back to you. Or, just give our helpful team a call on UK Freefone 0800 783 4678 (Intnl 0044 1772 558858)