Certified translation in Cardiff for use in Togo
Almost nobody sends a single sheet to Togo. A marriage file wants the marriage line and two birth entries; a job file wants a degree, a transcript and a check from the police. French is the language all of them have to arrive in, and the size of that stack is what really decides how long you wait.
The records themselves never move. Everything is built from images, so the paper stays in your hands from start to finish. Where a record is a civil one, Cardiff Register Office at City Hall, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3ND issues a fresh certified copy of a birth, marriage or death, and the French can be written from that copy.
The language Togo requires
French is the language of official business in Togo, so that is what the text is written in, and a certified translation into French in Cardiff has to take the whole of each sheet with it. The heading, the number in the corner, the note added by hand and the words printed around a seal all belong in the French version.
Across a stack of records the same wording has to be used every time. If a school is named one way on a degree and another way on a transcript, a reader is entitled to wonder whether the two belong to the same person. An official French translation in Cardiff keeps that vocabulary steady, which is far easier when the records arrive together.
Certification Togo accepts
Each record in the set carries its own signed statement of accuracy from a sworn translator, dated and written in that person's name. The certification is not a cover sheet for the bundle; a certified translation for Togo is certified record by record, so any one of them can be handed in on its own later without losing its standing.
Sworn status is fixed before the writing starts. It describes who the translator is rather than what was done to the text afterwards, which is why the sworn route has to be the one you ask for at the outset rather than an upgrade you buy at the end of the job.
Per-page cost and the clock
At about £25 a side, the arithmetic is simple enough to do at the kitchen table: count the printed faces in the pile and multiply. A dense transcript page and a short certificate cost the same, because the count is of paper, not of words, and the whole figure is settled before a translator opens the file.
Standard work is 2–4 business days once every scan has landed, and the express lane finishes in 24–48 hours. A missing reverse side is the usual reason a clock starts late, since the count cannot close until the last image is in. Send the full stack once and the dates hold.