Practical articles on certified translations.
A birth certificate holds a name, a birth date, sometimes a criminal record. What happens after Upload — and which GDPR article stands behind each step?
Read more → 2026-10-22The same translation of a certificate can make you a controller — or a processor. That decides which contracts you need and what goes into your record.
Read more → 2026-10-22The client asks where their passport will be and who will see it. A short answer you can give in thirty seconds — and the documents worth having at hand.
Read more → 2026-10-22A certificate paragraph in a free translator — quick. But what do the service’s own terms say? The answer is often right there in the text nobody reads.
Read more →1,800 characters, 250 words or no statutory unit at all: how the Czech Republic, France and Italy measure a translation page — and how Lingverra counts.
Read more → 2026-10-11Who may certify a translation, what the certificate contains, which law applies: examples from the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, France and Italy.
Read more → 2026-06-02When ISO 9 and when passport spelling? Apply the transliteration of Cyrillic names in certified translations correctly.
Read more → 2026-10-11AI can draft a translation; certification is tied to a person authorised by national law. Examples from the Czech Republic, France and Italy.
Read more → 2026-06-02Tables, stamps, seals: why the layout is reproduced in certified translations and how you save time doing it.
Read more → 2026-06-05Does the apostille have to be translated too? How a certified translation of a document and its apostille works, what the translation must contain and what authorities check.
Read more → 2026-10-11Who translates a foreign birth certificate, when the EU multilingual form replaces a translation, and examples from the Czech Republic, France and Italy.
Read more → 2026-10-11Statutory rates exist, but usually only for courts and authorities. Examples from the Czech Republic, France and Italy — and what Lingverra costs.
Read more → 2026-07-29Must an authority accept a certified translation made in another EU country? What Regulation (EU) 2016/1191 covers — and where its limit lies.
Read more → 2026-07-29Every country keeps its own register: Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Czechia, Spain. Where to look and what to look for — with direct links to the official sources.
Read more → 2026-10-07The UK has no sworn translators. What GOV.UK actually asks a translator to confirm, and the details that get a translation sent back.
Read more → 2026-10-07What Irish Immigration Service Delivery asks each translated document to contain, and when a translation must be apostilled.
Read more → 2026-10-07USCIS wants two statements from the translator, not one. What the regulation says and how the certificate is usually worded.
Read more → 2026-10-07Who counts as a certified translator for IRCC, when an affidavit is needed instead, and why the translator stamps a photocopy of the original.
Read more → 2026-10-07Home Affairs treats translators in and outside Australia differently. What a translator in Europe must provide with the translation.
Read more → 2026-10-07What INZ instructions A13.5 require from a certified translation, who may prepare it and what changed for visitor visas in 2025.
Read more → 2026-10-07Birth, marriage and death certificates, extracts, certified copies, legalisation, apostille and the Diploma Supplement: the official term in German, Polish, Czech, Slovak, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and Hungarian, with the traps explained.
Read more → 2026-10-07Statutory rates for sworn and certified translation in Germany, Austria, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain — unit, rate, surcharges and who pays them, taken from the legal texts.
Read more → 2026-10-0823 countries in one table: when the Apostille Convention applies, which authority issues the apostille, where an e-Apostille exists — and where an apostille can go on a sworn translation.
Read more → 2026-10-07Who certifies a translation and whether the law prescribes the wording — in 23 countries, with a link to the detailed guide for each.
Read more → 2026-10-07A scanned certificate, stamps, handwriting: why translating is often the smallest part of the job — and how to win back the hours spent on layout and proofreading.
Read more → 2026-10-06Can you translate official documents with AI without putting your clients’ data at risk? Six features of a GDPR-compliant service — and how Lingverra meets them.
Read more → 2026-10-06Passport spelling or ISO 9, patronymics, renamed places, Soviet forms: where most errors occur in Ukrainian civil documents — with references to the primary sources.
Read more → 2026-10-07Illegible entries, signatures and corrections: what Bavaria and the Polish sworn translators’ code require — and how to handle it in practice.
Read more → 2026-10-07How do you translate a diploma so recognition does not fail because of the translation? Six rules recognition bodies apply — with sources.
Read more → 2026-10-07Why do authorities reject certified translations? Seven common reasons and how to avoid each one — with references to the law of EU countries.
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