When a Wolverhampton paper needs an English version for Botswana
Botswana conducts official business in English, so the question is simply what language your paper was issued in. Plenty of families in Wolverhampton hold records made abroad: a birth entry from Warsaw, a diploma from Lahore, a marriage line from Bucharest. Those cannot be read by a Botswana office as they stand, and an English version has to sit beside them.
English as the target, and what gets carried across
A certified translation into English in Wolverhampton reproduces the lot, not just the parts that look important. Round seals are described in words. Handwriting that is hard to read is marked as such rather than guessed at. Reference numbers and dates are copied character for character, because a Botswana clerk may well type them straight into a system with no room for a near miss.
The certificate of accuracy and what it says
The route used here is a certified translation with certificate of accuracy. The certificate is a short page in its own right. It gives the translator's name, the direction of the work, the date it was finished and a plain statement that nothing was added or left out. That page is signed, and it is what turns a good English text into a certified translation for Botswana.
Cost per page and the delivery clock
The rate is about £25 / page counted on the source, so a dense page of Polish costs the same as a sparse one. Standard turnaround is 2–3 business days. Where a start date at a mine or a hospital is already fixed, the express route delivers in 24 hours. The clock starts on a readable scan, not on the order itself.
Fresh copies, and what arrives in Gaborone
Where the record is a UK civil one, Wolverhampton Register Office at Civic Centre, St Peter's Square, Wolverhampton WV1 1RU can issue a new certified copy on request. Sending that copy keeps the record you already own out of the post entirely. The office issues records; it has no role in translating them and puts no mark on an English text.
At the far end, a permit desk or a registrar in Botswana reads the certificate first and the English text second. An official English translation in Wolverhampton is accepted on the strength of being complete, dated and signed. Gaps are what cause trouble: a missing back page, an annex left behind, a stamp that was cropped out of the scan.