Manchester runs on deadlines somebody else set. A CAS letter. A court date. A registrar with one slot left this month. We put foreign papers into English for all of it, from Chinese transcripts and Arabic certificates to Polish court rulings and Farsi ID cards.
Everything comes back signed, stamped and dated, with a page giving the translator's name, their qualifications and our UK number. UKVI, HM Passport Office, the Register Office at Heron House, the courts, the universities on Oxford Road and the hospitals across Greater Manchester all take it as it is.
One page usually costs £25 to £45. The price moves with the language, the number of pages, and how fast you need it back. A transcript and a degree certificate sent together are one job, so they cost less than two separate orders.
The story is always the same. Somebody has been told their paperwork is not good enough, and nobody explained why. It nearly always comes down to something small. A seal left in the first language. A grade table changed. Two papers showing the same person under slightly different names. None of that happens when the person doing the work knows what the reader checks.
Students shape a lot of what arrives here. Transcripts, degree certificates, course outlines and money proof all landing at once against a university cut off. Advert and web copy for the city's agencies is different work, so that goes through our marketing translation services instead.
The rest is family and court work. Marriage and divorce papers from Pakistan, Iran and China. Custody rulings. Asylum evidence. Hospital notes brought over for treatment at MRI or Wythenshawe. Each one goes to a translator who works in that area, not to one person covering everything.
Send the file and tell us the office, the deadline and how each name is spelt on the passport. A fixed price reaches you within the hour and nothing is added later. Same day work is there when a university portal or a court date will not wait.
If someone in Greater Manchester 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 decides whether it is taken or questioned.
Made to fit around a cut off rather than slow it down. It all happens from your phone, and the same person sees it through.
Photograph or scan every page, including the back. Send the whole set at once rather than bit by bit. Tell us the university, the course or the office reading it, the exact cut off time, and how every name is spelt on the passport.
The price comes back with the stamp already included and nothing added later. A transcript and a degree certificate sent together are one job. One page is usually £25 to £45. We also tell you honestly whether your deadline can be met, before you pay.
A second translator checks every grade, date and number against your photos before we sign. The stamped PDF normally arrives within 24 hours. A signed paper copy follows by post where an admissions office or a registrar wants paper in hand.
Photograph every page
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Chinese, Arabic, Urdu and Farsi make up much of the work here. Polish, Romanian, Kurdish and Somali are close behind. Simplified and Traditional Chinese are treated as two different things, because a Hong Kong transcript and a mainland one do not follow the same rules.
Here are the reasons people across the city write to us, and what the person reading your file is really checking before they decide.
Manchester, MMU and Salford want transcripts and degrees in English before your place is confirmed. Finance teams want money proof at the same time. Missing the cut off costs a whole year.
The people writing your report may ring the translator to check. That is why ours shows a real name, a membership number and a landline, not a company stamp and an inbox.
Student, work, spouse and child routes all rest on papers a caseworker can check. One gap they cannot explain, and the file waits while they write to you.
Family hearings and immigration appeals read English only. Some judges want the translator to confirm the work in person, and we write that into the page when asked.
Hospital notes, scans and prescriptions from abroad go to translators with a medical background. Values and units are left exactly as the doctor wrote them.
Software and media firms here send app text, help pages and release notes. Those run through our technology translation services rather than a general desk.
Missing a portal deadline costs a whole year, not a fee. Two translators check every file before it goes out. If an office asks us to change something, we fix it and resend at no cost. App and software files go through our technology translation services.
Students a day from a CAS deadline. Families halfway through an application. Solicitors filing before a hearing. Their words are printed as they sent them, from Fallowfield to Salford.