The Tigrinya version and why it travels with your paper
Eritrean offices and consular counters work in Tigrinya. An English record on its own leaves a clerk there with nothing to act on. The file crosses as a pair: your English paper, or a fresh copy of it, and a Tigrinya text that carries every line across, including the wording pressed into a seal.
Tigrinya, names and the shape of a date
A certified translation into Tigrinya in Wolverhampton is set in Ge'ez script throughout. Family names carry weight here, since Eritrean naming runs through the father's given name rather than a fixed surname. The English record is reproduced exactly as written, without reordering names to fit a pattern, and dates are spelled out in words so no reader can flip a day and a month.
Who signs, and what the signature covers
The certification is a certified translation accepted by UK authorities, including UKVI and the GRO, signed by an ITI/CIOL-qualified certified translator. That signed page names both languages, lists the pages covered and states that nothing was added or dropped. It is what turns a Tigrinya text into a document a counter will accept rather than a private rendering.
Per-page rate and delivery
The rate is roughly £25 / page of source. Standard delivery is 2–3 business days, and express delivery is 24 hours. Family reunion files often hold several thin records at once, so ordering a certified translation for Eritrea as one job keeps the page count accurate and avoids a second small order two weeks later.
Fresh certified copies, and what the counter reads
Where the paper is a UK birth, marriage or death record, Wolverhampton Register Office at Civic Centre, St Peter's Square, Wolverhampton WV1 1RU issues a new certified copy. Sending that copy keeps the record you already hold out of the post entirely. The office issues records; it does not translate them and adds no stamp to a Tigrinya text.
A counter reads the signed page, counts the sheets against it, then compares names with a passport. An official Tigrinya translation in Wolverhampton is held up mainly by gaps: a reverse side left unscanned, an annex forgotten, a stamp cropped at the edge of an image. Sending the complete file first time removes almost all of that risk.