In this guide
  1. Four things you do not choose
  2. The language Lebanon requires
  3. What the signature settles
  4. Per-page cost and turnaround

Four things you do not choose

Write out everything this errand seems to involve and it reads like a long list. In practice the route has already made most of the calls. The language is Arabic. The signer holds a named credential. The unit of price is the page. The clock has two settings and no others. What remains is which papers you send and how soon you want them.

The language Lebanon requires

A certified translation into Arabic in Plymouth is what papers used in Lebanon call for, and the record crosses whole rather than in the parts that look useful. Knowing this early matters to the money as much as to the reading, because the page total is what you are billed on. A sheet of dense small print counts the same as a sheet with six lines on it.

What the signature settles

Back comes Arabic with a dated statement of accuracy attached, signed by the translator who wrote it. The statement names the person, gives the date and ties itself to the record it belongs to. It travels beside the copy you supplied, so the two can be read across. Nobody re-types your record along the way, and nobody tidies it up either.

Per-page cost and turnaround

That leaves two figures to hold in your head. Each page is £25. Standard work takes 3–5 business days once a clear image lands, and a 48-hour route exists for a date that will not move. Speed changes the queue rather than the writing, so a rushed set reads exactly like an unrushed one when it arrives.