Sworn translations from English into Italian in Alessandria

Alessandria is the point where Piedmont meets Liguria, Lombardy and Emilia, and that position has turned it into the inland yard of the port of Genoa. Warehouses, freight terminals and road haulage employ a large share of the local workforce, alongside the farming of the Monferrato hills and the goldsmiths of Valenza.

This office produces sworn translations from English into Italian in Alessandria, certified before the competent officer and handed over ready to be filed. Anyone holding papers issued by an English-speaking authority finds a service that covers every stage, from the quotation to the delivery of the completed file.

The service is addressed to the English-speaking residents of the province and to everyone who settles here with documents drawn up in English: for those coming from the United Kingdom and Ireland, from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, from Nigeria and Ghana, from the Philippines, from the United States and Canada, from Australia and South Africa. A good many of these families reached the province through Genoa, where the same communities have been established for decades.

The province is the largest in Piedmont after Turin and Cuneo, and it falls into areas that lie far apart: the provincial capital, the Casale Monferrato district, the Scrivia valley and the country around Ovada. All of them are reached with the same delivery times.

The official translations in Italy prepared here are accepted in Casale Monferrato, Novi Ligure, Tortona, Valenza, Acqui Terme, Ovada and in the other municipalities of the province of Alessandria.

The English documents translated for the offices of Alessandria

The acts listed below are those requested most often across the province. The list opens with the police certificates, which in the haulage and warehousing sector are the gateway to almost every recruitment file.

Criminal record certificate and pending charges: criminal records and certificates of pending charges recur in citizenship applications and in a great many recruitment procedures, including those governing access to freight areas. Their validity is limited in time.
Driving licence and vehicle registration document: licences issued outside the European Union and vehicle registration documents are translated and sworn in order to drive during the period allowed and to open the conversion procedure.
Birth certificate: birth certificates are needed for transcription in the registry office, for residence registration, for marriage and for Italian citizenship applications.
Marriage certificate: marriage certificates allow transcription in the Italian civil status registers, reunification with a spouse and the reconstruction of family records.
Diploma and educational certificate: diplomas, technical qualifications, degrees and transcripts listing subjects and marks are asked for by the schools of the province, by the goldsmithing colleges of Valenza and by the Piedmontese universities.
Passport and identity card: passports and national identity cards accompany nearly every file and are attached in sworn translation so that the holder of the other acts can be identified.
Certificate of family status: certificates of family status are requested for family reunification, for residence procedures and in citizenship files.
Tax code and the equivalent fiscal attestations issued abroad, needed in order to open a position with the Italian offices or to sign a contract of employment.
Certificate of no impediment to marriage: it is required of anyone intending to marry in a municipality of the province of Alessandria and having to prove freedom to do so.
Divorce certificate and divorce decree: divorce decrees make it possible to update marital status, to remarry, and are produced in proceedings on custody and maintenance.
Other identity documents and administrative acts: residence certificates, death certificates, powers of attorney and declarations issued by English-speaking authorities accompany residence permits, civil status files and inheritance procedures.

Court of Alessandria - Sworn translations

The apostille and the chain of authentication

The apostille is the stamp that certifies the signature and the seal appearing on a foreign public act. It is affixed in the State that issued the document, by the authority that State designates, and it cannot be obtained in Italy: a certificate that arrives without it, where the procedure calls for it, is sent back before anyone even looks at the translation.

The designated authority changes from country to country. In the United Kingdom the stamp is issued by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; in Ireland by the Department of Foreign Affairs; in India, in Australia, in the United States and in South Africa the task falls to a federal department or to the individual states. The applicant should ask for the apostille before sending the papers, because obtaining it afterwards means starting the postal journey a second time.

For a small number of States that have not joined the Hague Convention the path is a different one: the document is legalised by the Italian diplomatic mission in the country of origin. In both cases the stamp concerns the act of origin, never its sworn translation into Italian, which is drawn up here and certified before the Italian court officer.

Anyone uncertain about which route applies may send the papers stating the office they are intended for; the quotation then says whether the apostille is required and whether the file also needs the further step of legalisation.

Where the sworn translations are accepted in Alessandria

A translation certified by an official translator carries full legal validity before every Italian administration. In the city and across the province the files that leave this office are habitually filed with:

the Prefecture of Alessandria, for Italian citizenship applications and for the procedures of the territorial government office;
the Police Headquarters of Alessandria and the district stations of the province, for residence permits, renewals and family reunification;
the Municipality of Alessandria, with its registry office and civil status office, and the corresponding offices of the Monferrato and of the valleys;
the competent Civil Motor Vehicle Office, for the conversion of driving licences issued abroad;
the Court of Alessandria and the Office of the Public Prosecutor, for civil proceedings, for legalisations and for family cases;
the universities of Piedmont, the schools and the vocational training bodies of the area, for enrolment and for the recognition of qualifications obtained abroad;
the Piedmontese health authorities and the health offices, for registration with the national health service and for welfare procedures.

The service also covers consular acts, that is, the documents issued in Italy by foreign representations. Certificates and declarations drawn up in English by the consular offices of English-speaking countries call for the same sworn certification as acts arriving from abroad.

The same files keep their value outside Italy as well, before the Italian Embassies and the Italian Consulates in the European countries gathered in the menu: Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Czechia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Sworn translations across Piedmont and the neighbouring regions

Every Piedmontese province is covered, together with the bordering provinces of the three neighbouring regions. Those living in the province of Alessandria need not reach any counter: the papers travel electronically and the sworn file arrives at the address indicated.

Within the region the office follows sworn translations in Turin, the regional capital, certified translations in Asti, with which the Monferrato is shared, and official translations in Cuneo.

In the northern quarter of Piedmont the work covers sworn translations in Novara, certified translations in Vercelli, official translations in Biella and sworn translations in Verbano-Cusio-Ossola.

Beyond the regional border the office looks after certified translations in Genoa, the port on which much of the local logistics depends, official translations in Savona, sworn translations in Pavia, certified translations in Milan and official translations in Piacenza.

Quotation and delivery in the province of Alessandria

Sworn translation and certified translation name one and the same procedure: the translator accepts before a public officer the responsibility for the correspondence between the source text and the Italian one, and the record of the oath stays attached to the file. Legalisation is a further step, provided for in certain procedures only, which takes place at the Office of the Public Prosecutor.

The quotation costs nothing and is calculated on the actual text of the acts. It states a final figure, inclusive of duties and revenue stamps, of the sworn statement and of delivery, and it names the delivery date. It remains valid for seven days.

Those working shifts in the freight terminals of the province need take no time off: the procedure is handled remotely from beginning to end and the file is delivered where indicated. A scan or a photograph of the documents sent by email or by messaging is enough to obtain the quotation, together with the name of the office of destination.

Every file is prepared by an official translator entered on the Register of Experts of the Chamber of Commerce. sworn translation services in Italy run towards Italian only: the opposite direction, from Italian into English, does not form part of the service. Italian-speaking readers will find the same subject at traduzioni giurate di inglese a Alessandria.