Scotland has its own registration system and its own courts, which catches people out. National Records of Scotland, the sheriff courts and the Scottish universities all use their own paperwork. A translation made with only English offices in mind can still leave you short at the counter.
Every file is signed, stamped and dated, with a page giving the translator's name, their qualifications and our UK phone line. The Home Office at Festival Court, HM Passport Office, Glasgow registrars, the sheriff court, Strathclyde and Caledonian, and NHS Greater Glasgow all accept it.
One certificate usually costs £25 to £45. Court and tribunal files are priced as one job, not page by page. Legal aid work is agreed with the firm first. Either way, you know the number before anything starts.
The standard is the same across Britain. A full translation by a qualified person, signed and dated, with their details and a way to reach them. What changes in Scotland is who reads it. Marriages are registered a different way, court rules differ, and a Scottish university judges foreign qualifications on its own terms.
Glasgow also handles much of Scotland's asylum work, and that shapes what comes in. Arrest warrants, police letters, threat notes, medical reports and country papers, usually against a court date. Those files are read by one translator and one checker only, and our official document translation UK team treats them that way.
The rest is the usual mix. Marriage and birth records from Pakistan, India, Poland and the Middle East. Transcripts for the universities. Hospital notes brought over for the Queen Elizabeth. Pension papers from schemes abroad. Long files are priced as one job rather than by the page.
Send the papers and name the office, whether that is a Scottish registrar, the sheriff court, a university or a caseworker at Festival Court. A fixed price reaches you within the hour. Court and tribunal files are prepared with our legal translation services.
If an office in Scotland has asked for a paper in English, we have probably done it before. Here are the ones that come in most, and the detail on each that a Scottish reader actually checks.
All of it online. One person stays with the file, and for sensitive work only one translator and one checker ever open it.
Photograph or scan every page, including the back. Send the whole file at once rather than bit by bit. Tell us which Scottish office will read it, the date you are working to, and how every name is spelt on the passport so nothing has to be asked later.
You know the price before any work starts, with the stamp already included. One page is usually £25 to £45. Long court bundles are priced as one job. Legal aid firms are billed direct, so the client pays nothing up front.
A second translator checks every date, name and number against the original before we sign. Bundles are checked for page numbers as well as wording. The stamped PDF arrives within 24 hours, with signed paper copies posted anywhere in Glasgow.
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Urdu, Punjabi, Arabic, Farsi and Kurdish make up a large share of the work here. Polish, Romanian, Albanian and Tigrinya are close behind. Sorani, Kurmanji and Dari are treated as the separate languages they are, not lumped together to save time.
These are the situations that bring people here, and what the person reading your file is really checking when it reaches them.
Glasgow handles much of Scotland's asylum work. Warrants, police letters and country papers go to one translator and one checker, with dates and exact words kept, because a judge will read them closely.
Scotland registers marriages its own way. Registrars want foreign birth and divorce papers in English before taking a notice, and notice periods do not stretch for late paperwork.
Scottish court rules differ from England, but the language rule does not. We can number pages to match your own list, and provide a personal signature where a judge asks.
Glasgow, Strathclyde and Caledonian want transcripts in English before an offer is firm. ECCTIS wants a real name it can contact while writing its report.
Notes brought over for Glasgow hospitals go to translators with a medical background through our medical translation services, with values left as recorded.
Records from Polish, Pakistani and other schemes decide what you receive here. Two papers are usually needed rather than one, and they are priced together.
A file sent back by a Scottish office costs the same weeks as anywhere else. Two translators read every paper before it goes out. If anyone asks us to change something, we fix it and resend free. Health records go to translators with a medical background through our medical translation services.
Families waiting on a court date. Students holding a conditional offer. Couples booking a wedding through a Scottish registrar. Their words run here as they wrote them, from Govanhill to the West End.