In this guide
  1. The list and the drawer
  2. The near miss that costs a round
  3. When nothing in the drawer matches
  4. Counting the cost once the list is settled

The list and the drawer

An office writes its list in general terms: proof of birth, proof of address, a paper from a court. You own particular objects with particular headings printed across the top of them. Nobody at the far end can do the matching for you, so the first hour of this job is yours alone. A certified translation into English in Leicester is only worth ordering once the right paper has been picked out.

The near miss that costs a round

The expensive mistake is not a wrong translation. It is a faultless translation of the wrong paper. Two documents can carry almost the same heading and do quite different jobs, one recording an event and the other confirming a state of affairs today. Read what your paper says it is, not what you assume. A certified translation in Leicester for Uganda is written from whatever you send, exactly as it stands.

When nothing in the drawer matches

Sometimes the list names something you have never held. Where the item is a birth, marriage or death entry, Leicester Registration Service can issue a certified copy for the city, and that copy is the thing that gets written into English. Where it is a court or company paper, the body that issued it is the one to go back to. A certified translation for Uganda cannot bring a record into being.

Counting the cost once the list is settled

Once you know which papers are in, the arithmetic is easy. Each page is £25, standard work takes 2–3 business days, and the express route finishes in 24 hours. An official English translation in Leicester is quoted from what you actually send, so a list settled properly on the first pass costs less than a list guessed at and then revised twice.