Two scripts, one name
Amharic is not written in the Latin alphabet, so nothing on your page can simply be retyped. A name has to be heard and then set down in a different script, and there is usually more than one defensible way to do that. The important part is not which way is chosen but that the same choice is used on every page you ever file.
Consistency beats elegance
A reviewer holding your degree against your birth entry is looking for two identical strings, not for good style. So the rendering of a name, a town or an issuing office is settled once and then repeated everywhere. Where an older paper already carries an Amharic form of your name, that form wins, because matching what is already on file counts for more than starting fresh.
The parts that are not words at all
Seals, embossed crests, signatures and punched holes carry no text to render, so they are described where they sit on the page. A faint stamp is recorded as faint rather than quietly upgraded. The finished pages read as a map of the English ones, and a reader can account for every mark without needing to guess at what was dropped.
Cost, days, and where the paper comes from
At £25 for each side as issued, the bill is settled by the page count alone. Standard work runs 2–3 business days and express 24 hours, both measured from the moment a clean image arrives. Where the source is a birth, marriage or death entry, Derby Register Office at Riverside Chambers, Full Street, Derby DE1 3AF issues fresh certified copies, and starting from one of those heads off most queries.