Guatemala reads Spanish, including the small print
Guatemalan offices assess study and work records in Spanish. A degree certificate on its own rarely settles anything: the reader wants the transcript, the grading key and whatever letter explains how the marks were awarded. A certified translation into Spanish in Birmingham has to cover all of it, not just the impressive page.
Your English records are never altered. They stay with you, seals intact, and the Spanish arrives as a separate set. The pair is submitted together so a reader can match a module code on the English against the same code sitting in the Spanish.
What gets carried across, and what stays put
Grades, credit values and dates move over unchanged. Institution names are kept in their original form rather than translated, because a Guatemalan assessor may want to look the body up, and a translated name is one they will not find. The same holds for awarding bodies printed on a police check.
Where a document explains its own scale — what counts as a pass, how many hours a credit represents — that explanation is translated in full. It is the part that lets somebody unfamiliar with British marking read your results correctly, and an official Spanish translation in Birmingham that drops it leaves the reader guessing.
Rate, timing and the order to do things in
A certified translation for Guatemala is priced at about £25 a page, delivered in 2–3 business days as standard or 24 hours in express. Because pricing is per side, a long transcript is predictable rather than alarming: count the sides, multiply, and you have your figure before you speak to anyone.
Do the gathering before the ordering. Where a civil record belongs in the same bundle, Birmingham Register Office on Holliday Street issues fresh certified copies of births, marriages and deaths for an official fee, so a spare can be obtained and the sheet you keep at home never has to travel.