Thai is the language Thailand works in
Papers used in Thailand are read in Thai, so a certified translation into Thai in Newcastle upon Tyne is what makes an English record usable there. A Thai version is required for documents used in Thailand, and it takes in the abbreviations as much as the sentences: the little marks down the margin are part of what the sheet actually says.
A word with letters missing, or a handle
A certified translation for Thailand turns on one distinction. An abbreviation is a word with letters missing, so it is restored and the reader gets the meaning the writer left implied. A code is not a word at all. It exists to be matched against a list, a register or a file, so it is reproduced character for character and never interpreted.
British records are dense with it
Titles arrive as initials, qualifications as strings of capitals, offices as clipped nouns, and firms as three letters tacked after a name. Each is written out, so a reader meeting it for the first time is not guessing at your record. The printed form can stay beside the expansion where the layout has room, which lets someone move between the two sheets without losing their place.
Who stands behind the readings
The Thai pages come with a certificate of accuracy from a certified Thai translator, giving a name, a date and a signature written by hand, and naming the record the Thai was made from. There is no court appointment behind any of it. An official Thai translation in Newcastle upon Tyne rests on that page, and on a translator willing to put a name to every reading printed on it.
Per-page cost and turnaround
Cost is £25 for each page as issued, so a dense page and a sparse one come to the same figure. Standard work takes 3–5 business days from a legible scan, and express takes 48 hours. What slows a job down is a short form that could go two ways, because settling it properly means asking you rather than choosing the likelier reading.