Reading the page before translating it
Every certified translation for Afghanistan starts as an act of reading. Persian is the language the receiving reader works in, and nothing can be carried across until each line on the English sheet is legible. The commonest hold-up is not the language at all: it is a copy that hides part of itself from the person paid to read it.
So the first look is at paper quality rather than at content. A fold through a line of type, toner streaks, a staple driven through a date, a corner lost to the photocopier lid — each one turns a plain job into a question, and each question is answered by supplying a better copy of the same sheet.
Persian as the target language
Afghanistan works in Persian, so a certified translation into Persian in Sunderland is what an office there will be reading. The Persian version covers the whole document in the order it appears, which lets the two sheets be tracked against each other line by line by someone holding both.
Numbers are where an unclear copy costs most. A digit that could be a one or a seven, a month written in a hurried hand, a certificate number half eaten by a crease: each has to be read exactly, because the Persian page repeats it and a reader far away has nothing else to check it against.
Who signs, and what the signature rests on
A certified Persian (Farsi) translator does the work and signs a statement of accuracy that stays attached to the text. Where the source copy was clean, that statement is straightforward to give. Where a line could not be read, the translator marks the gap rather than filling it, and the marked gap is what the reader ends up seeing.
There is no requirement in this route for a sworn Persian translator in Sunderland. The credential that matters is the certified translator's, and the paperwork that matters is the signed statement beside the Persian text. Supplying a legible copy is the one part of that standard the customer holds in their own hands.
Per-page cost and the clock
Work is priced at about £25 per page, and the count follows the sheets that carry text. Standard turnaround is 3–5 business days and the express option delivers in 48 hours. Both clocks start when a readable copy is in hand, which is not always the same moment the order is placed.
A blurred scan is therefore the most expensive item in the whole process: it buys nothing and spends a day. Ordering a fresh certified copy from Sunderland Registration Service takes its own time as well, so it pays to set that going at the start of the errand instead of halfway through.