Certified Urdu
Translation Services
Urdu documents reach us most often with a family application attached: a spouse visa, a settlement case, family reunion, a school place, a professional registration. The paperwork is a mixture of computerised NADRA records, Union Council certificates and handwritten forms, and the Home Office wants all of it in English, fully and verifiably.
Every document is translated by an accredited human linguist and certified with a signed declaration of accuracy on company letterhead, dated, with our wet stamp. Send a scan and you will have a fixed price and a delivery date before anything starts.
WHAT THE HOME OFFICE actually asks for
Where documents provided are not in English or Welsh, you must provide a full dated and signed translation in English that can be verified. This must be dated and include the full name and signature of the translator or an authorised official of the translation company and their contact details.
gov.uk guidance on documents in support of an application
Every Urdu translation we issue carries all four elements – a full translation, a date, the translator named and signed, and contact details that can be checked – on company letterhead with our wet stamp. That is what acceptance actually turns on, and it is why we can guarantee it.
BOTH DIRECTIONS, one certified standard
Urdu to English
- Spouse, settlement and family reunion applications
- NADRA records – CNIC, NICOP, FRC
- Nikah Nama and divorce documents
- Birth and death certificates from the Union Council
- Degrees, transcripts and school certificates
- Police certificates and affidavits
English to Urdu
- Documents for Pakistani consulates
- Marriage, property and inheritance matters
- Powers of attorney for use in Pakistan
- Company and contract paperwork
- School and university files
- Attested translations for use overseas
Working between Urdu and a third language is fine too – tell us both and we will confirm the pairing before you order.
URDU DOCUMENTS we translate every week
- Nikah Nama (marriage contract)
- Family Registration Certificates (FRC)
- CNIC and NICOP identity records
- Birth certificates
- Death certificates
- Divorce deeds and talaq documents
- University degrees and transcripts
- School and college certificates
- Police character certificates
- Affidavits and notarial documents
- Bank statements and salary certificates
- Property and inheritance documents
Not on the list? We translate it anyway. The certified translation page carries the full range, and there are individual pages for the documents people ask about most.
WHY EKO 4 for Urdu
Anyone can say they translate Urdu. These are the three things that actually decide whether a Urdu file is accepted.
A Nikah Nama is a contract, not a certificate
It is a multi-page form with numbered clauses, witnesses, financial terms and a great deal of handwriting, and the clauses are frequently the part the caseworker is reading. It is translated in full – every clause, every entry, every marginal note – rather than reduced to the names and the date, which is what a summary translation does and why summaries get rejected.
Bilingual does not mean already translated
Plenty of Pakistani documents carry English alongside Urdu, and people reasonably assume that is enough. It usually is not: the English is often partial, the handwritten entries and the stamps are in Urdu, and the Home Office asks for a full translation certified by a named translator either way. We translate the whole document, including the parts that are already in English, so nothing is missing from the certified version.
Handwritten nasta’līq, read rather than guessed
Union Council entries, affidavits and older certificates are filled in by hand in nasta’līq, and clerks’ handwriting varies enormously. Our linguists read it. Where a word genuinely cannot be made out it is marked illegible in the translation rather than guessed at, because a guessed name or date is worse than an honest gap.
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At EKO 4 Translations we guarantee 100%
- Document Acceptance
- Accuracy and Quality
- Delivery on Time
- Free Corrections
WHAT YOU GET with every Urdu translation
- Accredited and sworn, fully bilingual philologist and linguist human translators
- An additional native-speaking proofreader on every project for quality assurance
- Professional DTP editing and formatting, so the translation mirrors your original
- A signed affidavit and declaration of translation accuracy
- The company wet stamp for authenticity
- Official certification on company letterhead
- Full compliance with the ISO 17100 quality standard
- A physical copy with wet stamps and company letterhead where one is needed
- Nothing of yours has to travel – a scan is enough, and hard copies come to you
- Any iterations, corrections and editing free of charge, same day or next day
CERTIFIED, SWORN or apostilled – which do you need?
These are three different things and ordering the wrong one is the most common and most expensive mistake in the process. Which you need is decided entirely by who is receiving the document, and it is the first thing we check when you ask for a quote.
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Certified translation
A signed declaration of accuracy on company letterhead, dated, with the translator named and our wet stamp applied – what the Home Office, UKVI, HMCTS, universities and employers ask for.
Certified translation →2
Sworn or notarised
Where an authority wants the declaration sworn before a solicitor acting as Commissioner for Oaths, or witnessed and sealed by a notary public. Usually asked for by a body outside the UK.
Certified & sworn translation →3
Apostille or legalisation
An FCDO apostille for countries in the Hague Convention, and embassy legalisation on top for those outside it. We confirm which route your country needs before you order.
Notarised translation & apostille →Some of our clients
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URDU translation – questions, answered
Will UKVI accept an Urdu translation from you?
Yes, and we guarantee acceptance. Every translation is complete and word for word, including seals, stamps and handwritten entries, and it is issued dated, on company letterhead, with the translator named and signed and our contact details on it.
My documents are already partly in English. Do I still need a translation?
Yes, in almost every case. The guidance asks for a full translation certified by a named translator or an authorised official of the translation company, and a partly English document is not that. We translate the whole thing, English portions included, so the certified version matches the original completely.
Can you translate a Family Registration Certificate?
Yes, and it is one of the most common things we are asked for. The FRC is translated in full, including every family member listed and the NADRA references, because relationship evidence is usually exactly why it was requested.
What if a handwritten entry is hard to read?
It is read where it can be read and marked illegible where it cannot. We never guess at a name, a date or a figure – and if something important is unreadable we tell you before delivery so you can obtain a clearer copy.
Do you need my original documents?
No. A clear scan or photograph is enough for the entire job, including certification – both sides, every corner in frame. Your originals stay with you and a wet-stamped hard copy is posted to your address when you need one.
How long does it take?
A standard certificate is normally back within 24 to 72 hours, and expedited delivers as fast as 24 hours. A full family bundle for a settlement application is quoted as one job with one delivery date rather than document by document.
Send your Urdu document
A scan or a phone photograph is enough. You will have an itemised written quote, a delivery date and an honest answer on what certification the receiving body actually wants – free, with no obligation, and handled confidentially under UK GDPR.
Or talk to a person: 0333 772 1444 · info@translationsuk.com
URDU TRANSLATION wherever you are in the UK
The whole service runs digitally, so where you are makes no difference to the work, the timing or the price. Send a scan, approve the quote, and the finished translation comes back by email – with a wet-stamped hard copy posted to your address when you need one.
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