Certified translation of a Passport Copy from Brighton
A passport is the one paper nobody should put in the post, and nothing here asks you to. An official translation of a Passport Copy in Brighton is produced from a scan of the data page, so the book stays in your hands the whole way through. The finished set holds the translated fields, a dated statement of accuracy on top, and a copy of the scan behind it.
Translator credential & pre-requisites for a Passport Copy
Two things are needed before anything is typed: a clean scan and a named target language. The image should be flat and in colour, with the whole data page in frame and the coded lines at the foot unbroken. The signature comes from an ITI or CIOL qualified translator, and the qualification is printed under the name so a reader can see where it comes from.
Cost & turnaround
The rate is about £25 a page of the source, statement included, and a data page counts as one page. Adding a visa sticker or an endorsement page makes it two. Standard work is 2–3 business days from the scan landing, and an urgent job is closed within 24 hours by moving it to the head of the queue.
Common uses of a translated Passport Copy
It turns up wherever identity has to be shown to an office that does not read English: opening a bank account abroad, registering a tenancy, enrolling at a university, buying property, or attaching identity to a power of attorney. Brighton & Hove Register Office at the Town Hall, Bartholomew Square keeps the city's birth, marriage and death registers and has nothing to do with passports, so a fresh copy comes from the book in your hand.
Acceptance notes
A certified translation of a Passport Copy in the United Kingdom is accepted when the number, the dates and the names on the translation match the scan exactly, and the statement at the front carries a translator's name, qualification and date. A blurred corner or a cropped line at the foot of the page is the usual reason a set is queried, which is why the scan is worth doing carefully once.