Translation services for documents a court or embassy must accept
Each document goes to a sworn or specialist translator in its field, from a business proposal to a court filing, delivered in one to seven days.
Certified and specialist translation for contracts, patient records and birth certificates that a court, a regulator or an embassy has to accept, done through the BeTranslated network we have run for over two decades.
I have worked with Mike and his team on a variety of projects over the years. He is always friendly, quick to respond and offers valuable expertise in digital marketing and SEO.What you get from our translation services
Sworn and certified translations of birth certificates, powers of attorney, court rulings and immigration documents, prepared for the specific court, embassy or public administration you submit them to, in Spain, the UK or across the EU.
Medical translation by translators who know the terminology of your medical field: patient records, informed consent forms and regulatory submissions handled under GDPR and HIPAA confidentiality protocols.
Financial and legal translation, from annual reports and prospectuses to contracts, patent filings and articles of association, that holds up to the same scrutiny as the original, because every clause in a shareholder agreement and every figure in an audited statement is a liability question.
How the BeTranslated network delivers it
Translation runs through BeTranslated, the translation agency Mike Bastin founded and has run for twenty years, with certified and sworn translators per language and per specialism (legal, medical, financial, academic, technical). Delivery takes one to seven days, depending on the complexity of the document and your situation, with rush turnaround available for time-critical personal documents such as a visa or birth certificate translation.
Every document gets matched to a translator with the relevant sector background, then a review pass before delivery, with notarisation or an apostille handled where the receiving institution requires it. For US and Canadian citizens, we also provide apostille services.
Where the accuracy standard gets tested
Delaguía y Luzón is a Valencia law firm whose practice runs across Spain and France in four languages, including Russian, so the same document sometimes needs to hold up in two legal systems at once. Its site carries that translated legal content.
Open what you need
Translation work we take on, by document type
6 answers to the questions that come up first.
The right certification for the body receiving your document
We confirm with you which of the four the receiving institution asks for, because people often ask for a different one from the one they need. A certified translation carries a signed statement of accuracy from the translator or agency. A sworn translation is made by a translator formally registered with a court or ministry, which is how Spain, France and much of the EU handle official documents. Notarisation adds a notary attesting to the signature, not to the translation. An apostille authenticates the document itself for use abroad under the Hague Convention, and is issued by the authorities of the country the document comes from. For US and Canadian citizens, we provide apostille services too.
A court, a registry, a university admissions office and an immigration authority each have their own rule, so we start from theirs.
Legal translation for the receiving jurisdiction
We translate contracts, court filings, witness statements, powers of attorney, articles of association, shareholder agreements, patent and trademark filings. Legal language is bound to its jurisdiction as well as technical, so our translators choose each term for the weight it carries in the receiving legal system.
Medical and regulated translation
We translate patient records, clinical trial documentation, regulatory submissions, informed consent forms, patient information and discharge instructions, device manuals and research papers. Much of it is read first by an ethics committee or a regulator, so we match the terminology that body already uses.
We apply the same care to the marketing material around a medical device, which is regulated copy wearing a commercial jacket.
Financial translation in the vocabulary of your reporting standard
We translate annual reports, prospectuses, fund fact sheets, balance sheets, income and cash flow statements, audit reports and tax filings. Financial reporting has settled vocabulary tied to the standards in use, and our translators keep to it exactly.
Academic translation for recognition abroad
We translate degree certificates, transcripts and mark sheets, research papers and journal articles, personal statements and recommendation letters, syllabi and course descriptions. A transcript carries a grading system of its own, and we set out how it maps onto the receiving country's, which keeps an application moving.
For research writing we keep the argument intact, hedging included, so a carefully qualified claim stays exactly as qualified in translation.
Transcreation for campaigns and brand copy
A campaign line, a tagline or a piece of brand copy that works in one language often needs a new form in another, because what it does is cultural. We rewrite it for the same effect, from a brief describing what the original is meant to achieve.
We use transcreation for marketing, and send anything a regulator, a court or an examiner will compare line by line to translation.
From the brief to the reporting
What happens after your first message
- A free consultationTell us what the document is and who will receive it, and we confirm which kind of translation that body asks for: certified, sworn, notarised or apostilled.
- A quote for your documentWe send a quote for your document and your deadline, so you know the cost and the delivery date before the translation begins.
- A translator matched by specialismYour document goes to a certified or sworn translator from the BeTranslated network with background in its field: legal, medical, financial, academic or technical.
- A review pass before deliveryEvery translation goes through a review pass before delivery, so it holds up to the same scrutiny as the original document.
- Delivery in one to seven daysDelivery takes one to seven days depending on the complexity of the document and your situation, with rush turnaround for time-critical personal documents such as a visa or birth certificate.
- Notarisation or apostille where neededWhere the receiving institution requires it, we handle notarisation or an apostille, and we provide apostille services for US and Canadian citizens.
Who does the work
Mike Bastin and his team, working from Valencia in your buyers’ languages
Mike has worked in multilingual search for over two decades and founded BeTranslated, the translation agency he has run for twenty years, whose ten country sites each compete in their own market. He works natively in French, fluently in English, Spanish and Dutch, and well enough in German, Italian and Portuguese to run SEO projects in them.
We run our own sites the way we run yours. See how we built ValenciaMove, our removals site in five languages.
Mike leads the team on every engagement, so you deal with him from the first call to the monthly report.
The next step
Find out what translation services could be worth in your markets
Thirty minutes on which markets matter, what already ranks, and what has been tried before. A written scope naming pages and deliverables follows. Engagements continue one month at a time.
The whole scope
What else we take on for you
Translation is best sorted by document type, because the risk changes completely from one kind to the next, and so does who should be doing the work.
Business translation covers contracts, proposals, internal documents and the correspondence that keeps a deal moving in a language outside your own team's. Financial work means audits, annual reports and prospectuses, where the regulated wording is the part that matters. Legal means contracts, filings and court documents, sworn or certified when the receiving body asks for it, which many do as a matter of course.
Medical is where accuracy is a safety matter before it is a regulatory one, so it goes to translators who work in the field. Academic work has to carry method and citation across intact. Certified and sworn translations are signed by a translator authorised to certify them, for the authorities, courts and registries that require exactly that.
Transcreation is its own job, and often asked for under another name. Rewriting a campaign so it lands in the new market is a different job from translating it accurately, and it is priced differently, because the brief is the effect on the reader.
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