Leeds sends us a wide mix. Polish and Romanian records for settled status. Punjabi and Urdu family papers from Harehills and Beeston. Kurdish and Arabic evidence for court files. Transcripts from the two universities. All of it has to read properly in English before anyone acts on it.
Each paper is signed, stamped and dated, with a page giving the translator's name, their qualifications and our UK phone line. UKVI, HM Passport Office, Leeds Register Office, the Combined Court on Oxford Row, the universities and the hospitals at the LGI and St James's all accept it.
One document usually costs £25 to £45. Long files are different. Six months of payslips repeat the same lines every month, so we price the set as one job. That works out much cheaper than paying page by page. You see the number before we start.
Refusals here follow a pattern. A stamp on the back nobody photographed. A note in the margin left out. A surname written two ways on two papers. None of it is hard to avoid. But an office will not tell you which one it was. It just hands the file back, and another two weeks go.
A lot of the work here is European. Polish ZUS letters. Romanian civil records. Czech and Slovak certificates. Lithuanian and Latvian papers for settled status and pensions. Each country lays things out its own way, and your translator already knows that layout before they start.
The rest splits between the universities and the courts. Transcripts and degrees against admission dates on one side. Custody rulings, asylum files and money disclosure on the other. Engineering or survey reports going into a claim run through our technical translation services so the terms hold up in front of a judge.
If an office in Leeds has asked for something in English, it has probably reached us before. Here are the papers people send most, and the one thing each reader is checking when it arrives.
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Stamps, seals and notes in the margin are often the part an office cares about most. Leaving them out is the main reason a Leeds file comes back. Photograph the back of every sheet even when it looks empty, and tell us the office and the date.
We take out the repeated text before we give you a number. Six months of payslips cost far less than six separate documents. One page is usually £25 to £45. Nothing starts until you have agreed the price in writing.
A second translator reads the work against your photos, and long bundles are checked for page numbers as well as wording. The stamped PDF arrives within 24 hours. Signed paper copies go to any Leeds address by post.
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Polish, Romanian, Punjabi and Urdu lead the way here. Kurdish Sorani, Czech, Slovak and Arabic are close behind. Roma dialects, Tigrinya and Pashto come in too, and go to native speakers rather than someone working from a nearby language and hoping.
These are the reasons people and firms here get in touch, and what the office reading your file is checking before it goes any further.
Polish, Romanian and Baltic records make up much of this. Caseworkers look for four things first: what it says, the date, a real signature and contact details. All four are on ours.
Leeds and Leeds Beckett want transcripts in English before an offer is firm. ECCTIS wants a real name it can ring while writing your report.
The Combined Court reads English only. Legal aid work is billed straight to the firm on its own reference, so the client never pays up front.
Polish ZUS letters, Norwegian award notices and Spanish records decide what you get here. Two papers are usually needed rather than one.
Notes brought over for the Leeds hospitals go to translators with a medical background. Nothing is changed into UK units on the way.
Solicitors here run tight checks. Statements, gift letters and foreign deeds have to be readable before a completion date will hold.
A returned paper costs weeks. Two translators read every file before it goes out. If an office asks us to change something, we fix it and send it again free. Firms selling into new markets are looked after by our website translation services.
Families applying for settled status. Students a week from an offer deadline. Solicitors getting ready for a hearing at the Combined Court. Their words are here as they wrote them, from Headingley to Harehills.