Mozambique works in Portuguese
Mozambican offices read Portuguese, and an English record sits idle until a Portuguese version arrives beside it. A certified translation into Portuguese in Birmingham creates that version from a scan. Your English sheet keeps its seals, stays in your hands, and is submitted alongside the Portuguese rather than being replaced by it.
The useful question is not what a translation costs but which sheets belong in the bundle at all. That depends entirely on why the file is going, and getting it wrong is what turns a three-day job into a three-week exchange of letters.
Sorted by why you are sending it
Family matters — an inheritance, a marriage being recognised, a child being registered — rest on civil records, and usually on more than one. A birth entry alone proves a birth; proving a relationship generally takes the certificate that links two people as well. Map the chain before ordering rather than after.
Work and study matters rest on letters, contracts, award certificates and transcripts. Here the trap is the page nobody thinks of: the grading key, the annex, the reverse of a reference letter. An official Portuguese translation in Birmingham that omits it leaves the reader unable to interpret what is in front of them.
The signature, the rate and the clock
Beneath the Portuguese sits a certificate of accuracy naming the translator and dating the work. That signed block is what makes a certified translation for Mozambique usable rather than merely readable, because a real person is now answerable for every line above their name.
The rate is about £25 a page and the turnaround is 2–3 business days, or 24 hours in express. Where a British civil record needs replacing first, Birmingham Register Office on Holliday Street issues fresh certified copies of births, marriages and deaths, so the sheet you keep at home never has to travel anywhere.