Showing savings for a visa, or proving where a house deposit came from? Whoever reads that file needs the figures in English. We work on statements from UniCredit, Santander, BBVA, Sparkasse, Crédit Agricole, Millennium BCP, ICBC, Fubon and hundreds of other banks, whether you send a scanned booklet, a downloaded e-statement or six months of monthly PDFs.
Everything comes back signed, stamped and dated, with an accuracy page listing the linguist's name, qualifications and our UK office details. Visa caseworkers, conveyancers, mortgage lenders, university finance teams and compliance officers all accept it as it stands. Your PDF lands inside 24 hours and a wet-signed paper set follows by post whenever you want one.
Two groups fill our inbox. One is applying for a visa and has to show a balance sitting untouched for 28 days. The other is buying a house and has a solicitor asking where the money came from. Both want the same thing, a version their reader trusts on sight, which is where our official translation services come in.
Statements are unusual because most of the page is repetition. The same headers, the same merchant names, the same layout month after month. Charging that as fresh work every time makes no sense, so a fifteen page UniCredit bundle or a seventy page Italian file is quoted as one project. Ask for a ballpark before you send anything and you will get one.
You can also ask for less than the whole thing. Plenty of clients only need the account holder details, the headings, the monthly totals and the salary credits, leaving the corner shop and petrol entries alone. Others need pages one and two for a proof of address, or a run from February to August rather than a full year. Say what the reader actually wants and we price that, not more.
Tell us the reader and the date range, and a firm figure comes back the same morning. Visa caseworker, conveyancer, lender, university finance office or compliance team, each one wants the certification worded slightly differently and we already know how. Deadline this week? Say so on the form.
Nothing physical changes hands and no appointment is needed. A single project manager handles your file end to end, which matters when the paperwork is this personal.
Downloaded PDFs work best, though scans and photos are fine. Tell us the months you actually need, who is going to read it, and whether the full transaction list matters. Uneasy about sharing? Black out the figures for now, or ask us to sign your confidentiality agreement first.
We count what genuinely needs work rather than counting sheets of paper. Repeated headers and merchant names are discounted heavily, and a shortened version costs less again. The figure you approve is the figure you pay, and nothing starts before you say go.
Every balance and date is checked twice, because a single wrong digit in a proof of funds file can sink an application. The stamped PDF reaches you inside 24 hours, sooner if a completion date is pressing, and printed sets travel first class or tracked.
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German, Spanish, French, Italian and Chinese statements dominate our workload, and each banking system words things differently. Gehalt, nómina, virement, bonifico and 转账 all mean something specific, so the linguist assigned to your file already knows that vocabulary rather than guessing at it.
Money crossing a border always brings questions. Below are the situations that send people to our financial translation services week after week, and what each reader is really checking for.
Visitor and skilled worker routes ask you to hold a set amount for a fixed run of days. The caseworker is looking at closing balances and dates, so those two things have to be beyond argument.
Universities run their own screening before issuing a CAS, and the finance team wants a signed English version rather than a printout. Deadlines here are unforgiving, so speed matters as much as accuracy.
Family routes look at income over months, not a single balance. Salary credits have to stand out clearly from everything else, which is exactly what a shortened version is designed to do.
Lenders will not release an offer until they understand a gift from a parent abroad. The statement, the transfer note and the gift letter usually travel together, and we quote them as one.
Compliance teams trace money backwards until they reach something they recognise. Missing months raise flags, so we keep the run continuous and flag any gap rather than quietly skipping it.
Conveyancers cannot exchange without seeing the deposit trail in a language they read. Completion dates slip over this more often than anything else, which is why we turn these round fast.
Student Finance England asks for evidence of household income earned overseas, and hardship funds do the same. Both want a certified English copy attached to the application, not a screenshot.
Sometimes only the header matters. A single page carrying your name and overseas address satisfies plenty of applications, and paying for a full year would be a waste of your money.
Form E and financial remedy hearings need overseas accounts laid out in full. Courts here read nothing but English, and both sides usually want the same run of months covered.
Executors have to value foreign accounts on the date of death. The Probate Registry wants the closing balance shown plainly, alongside the certificate of accuracy that backs it up.
Opening a UK trading account, applying for finance or satisfying an investor all mean showing overseas company accounts. Directors' personal statements often get pulled in as well.
Declaring foreign interest or rental income means showing where the figures came from. An accountant will want the statement in English before signing anything off on your behalf.
Nobody enjoys emailing a stranger a year of their spending. Files sit encrypted, only the assigned linguist opens them, and we will sign your confidentiality agreement before a single page moves. Companies asking about larger accounts can look at our business translation services instead.
Buyers waiting on an exchange date, students chasing a CAS, and families gathering six months of paperwork for a visa. These are their words, unedited, from across London, Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham. Read them and judge for yourself before you send anything sensitive our way.