What Mozambique needs beside your English paper
Public business in Mozambique runs in Portuguese. An English contract, degree or civil record leaves an office there with nothing it can act on. So the file crosses in two parts: your English paper, or a fresh copy of it, and a Portuguese text that repeats every clause, date and stamp without cutting anything short.
Portuguese, and the parts that are easy to lose
A certified translation into Portuguese in Wolverhampton carries footnotes, schedules and anything printed inside a seal, not only the main body. Contract work is where care shows: a clause reference or a defined term that shifts slightly in Portuguese can change what a party is agreeing to, so defined terms are kept consistent across every page of the set.
The certificate that makes it usable
The route is a certified translation with certificate of accuracy. That page is signed by a certified translator and names the languages, the date and the pages covered, then states plainly that nothing was added or removed. It has to stay attached. A Portuguese text separated from its certificate is simply an unsigned document as far as an office is concerned.
Per-page cost and the delivery window
A certified translation for Mozambique is priced at roughly £25 for each source page, delivered in 2–3 business days or 24 hours where a start date is already fixed. Sending a contract and its schedules as a single order keeps the count accurate and means one certificate covers the whole instrument rather than several loose pieces.
Fresh civil copies, and what Maputo checks
For a UK birth, marriage or death record, Wolverhampton Register Office at Civic Centre, St Peter's Square, Wolverhampton WV1 1RU issues new certified copies. A fresh copy is the one to send, keeping the record you already hold at home where it belongs. The office issues records; it does not translate them or certify a Portuguese text.
In Mozambique the certificate is read, the pages are counted, then the names and dates are matched. An official Portuguese translation in Wolverhampton is delayed most often by a schedule that never made it into the scan, since the count then disagrees with the certificate and the whole set waits.