Certified Spanish
Translation Services
Spanish is one language and about twenty document systems. A Spanish certificación literal, a Mexican acta de nacimiento and a Colombian registro civil are all birth records and none of them looks like the others. Which country issued yours changes the form, the vocabulary and often what the receiving body will ask for alongside it.
Documents go to a linguist who works with that country’s paperwork, and are 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 Spanish 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
Spanish to English
- Home Office, UKVI and settlement applications
- Civil records from Spain and Latin America
- Degrees, transcripts and school certificates
- Police and criminal-record certificates
- Property deeds and notarial documents
- Company registration and trade documents
English to Spanish
- Marriage and residence abroad
- Property purchase and inheritance
- Documents for consulates and registries
- Company formation and contracts
- Powers of attorney
- Apostilled translations for use overseas
Working between Spanish and a third language is fine too – tell us both and we will confirm the pairing before you order.
SPANISH DOCUMENTS we translate every week
- Birth records (certificación literal, acta, registro civil)
- Marriage certificates
- Death certificates
- Divorce judgments
- University degrees and transcripts
- School and baccalaureate certificates
- Criminal-record certificates
- Identity documents and passports
- Property deeds (escrituras)
- Powers of attorney and notarial acts
- Bank statements and payslips
- Company documents and contracts
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 Spanish
Anyone can say they translate Spanish. These are the three things that actually decide whether a Spanish file is accepted.
Two surnames, and UK forms only have one box
Spanish-speaking countries give a person two surnames – the father’s then the mother’s – and both are part of the legal name. UK forms usually have a single “last name” field, so applicants drop one, and then the translated certificate and the application disagree. We reproduce both surnames exactly as the document gives them, in the order it gives them, and it is worth using the same form everywhere in your file.
The literal certificate is the one with the history on it
Spain issues an abbreviated extract and a certificación literal, the full transcription with every marginal annotation – a divorce, a name change, a recognition. If your case turns on something that happened after the original entry, the extract will not show it. Send us what you have and we will tell you free of charge whether it will do.
Which country, not just which language
A Spanish notarial deed, an Argentine partida and a Peruvian police certificate use different terms for the same things, and translating one with the other’s vocabulary produces a document that reads as though it were describing something else. Tell us where it was issued and it is assigned accordingly.
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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 Spanish 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.
Sworn & notarised 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.
Apostille & legalisation →Some of our clients
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SPANISH translation – questions, answered
Will the Home Office accept a Spanish translation from you?
Yes, and we guarantee acceptance. It is complete and word for word, including seals, stamps and marginal annotations, and it is issued dated, on company letterhead, with the translator named and signed and our contact details on it.
Which of my two surnames should I use on the UK form?
That is your decision and your solicitor’s rather than ours, but be consistent: whichever form you use, use it everywhere in the file. Our translation always reproduces both surnames as the document gives them, so the caseworker can see the full legal name whatever the form says.
Do you translate documents from Latin America as well as Spain?
Yes, and not as one queue. The registry systems and their vocabulary differ country by country, so a document goes to a linguist who works with that country’s paperwork. Tell us where it was issued when you send it.
My Spanish certificate is an extract rather than a literal one.
It may still be fine – it depends on what your case turns on. If a later event matters, the literal version is the one with the annotations. Ask us before you order; the advice is free.
I need the translation for a Spanish office, not a UK one.
Then it usually needs an apostille as well as certification, and the order runs translation, certification, apostille. The apostille page sets out how that works and what it costs you in time.
Do you need my original document?
No. A clear scan or photograph is enough for the entire job including certification, and hard copies with our wet stamp are posted to your address when you need one.
Send your Spanish 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
SPANISH 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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