Somebody has to own the words
Mauritania works in Arabic, so an English sheet from Stoke-on-Trent has to arrive with an Arabic page beside it. Getting the wording right is the easy half of that. The harder half is that a named person must own those words in writing, so a reader who doubts a line knows exactly whose work is in front of them.
Software cannot sign
A free tool hands you Arabic in a second, and some of it will even be right. None of it is certified, because certifying is one person stating on the record that this text matches that page. A program makes no such statement and holds no credential. A certified translation into Arabic in Stoke-on-Trent begins at the exact point where the tool stops being useful.
The name that travels with the file
The person who writes your Arabic is described as a Certified Arabic translator, and that description goes with the work rather than staying behind. It sits on the signed statement, dated, fixed to the pages. The certified form used on this route is the one written to be read by consulates and ministries, and it is that traceable line back to a human being that a program can never supply.
What it costs and how long it takes
The rate is £25 for each side of paper as it was issued, whether that side is crowded or nearly bare. Standard work takes 3–5 business days once a readable scan arrives, and the express route brings it down to 48 hours. Running a machine draft first shortens neither number, since the translator reads the whole page in either case.
Starting from a clean copy
Stoke-on-Trent Register Office supplies fresh certified copies of birth, marriage and death entries from the Civic Centre on Glebe Street. It works by post, so nobody has to queue anywhere. A crisp copy photographs cleanly, which means the Arabic is written from something the translator can actually read, and your own certificate never leaves the house at all.