In this guide
  1. Settled before you ask
  2. Yours to decide
  3. The copy you supply
  4. What speed does and does not buy

Settled before you ask

A certified translation into Serbian in Southampton is what documents used in Bosnia and Herzegovina require, and that is the first rule you cannot move. The second is the signer: sworn work by a sudski tumač, a translator appointed by a court who signs on oath. The third is the certified form itself. Read those three as the shape of the job.

Yours to decide

What remains is short and practical. You decide which sheets are worth the money, since the price follows the count at about £25 / page. You decide which copy of a record goes in. You decide between the standard run and the express one. Each of those shifts the bill or the date, and nothing else you do will shift either.

The copy you supply

This is the choice people get wrong most often. For a birth, marriage or death record, a fresh certified copy can be ordered from Southampton Register Office at 6a Bugle Street, Southampton SO14 2AJ, and it does exactly the job the paper in your drawer does. That way the record you already own never has to go into an envelope.

What speed does and does not buy

Standard delivery is 2–4 business days and express delivery is 24–48 hours. Express squeezes the translating and the signing, and it squeezes nothing that happens before them. A certified translation for Bosnia and Herzegovina still waits on the register office issuing your copy, so buying haste at the end of the chain rarely rescues a late start.