Sworn translations from English into Italian in Gorizia

The Isonzo lands are small and thick with history: Gorizia divided from Nova Gorica by a border that runs through squares and gardens, the shipbuilding town of Monfalcone, the vineyards of the Collio and the plain that follows the river down to the lagoon at Grado.

This office prepares sworn translations from English into Italian in Gorizia, certified before the competent officer and delivered ready to be filed. Whoever holds papers issued in an English-speaking country finds a service that covers the whole path, from the free quotation to the delivery of the finished file.

The service is addressed to English-speaking residents of the province and to everyone arriving with acts drawn up in English: for those coming from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, whose communities have grown around the Monfalcone yard, from the Philippines and from Nigeria, and for British and Irish citizens who have settled between the Collio and the coast. English is the working language of a good part of the shipbuilding industry here, and the files that follow a new engagement are written in it.

In a border area documents cross frontiers constantly, and the question that arrives most often concerns the stamp that makes them usable in another State. That stamp is the apostille, and it is worth explaining precisely.

The official translations in Italy produced here are accepted in Monfalcone, Grado, Ronchi dei Legionari, Gradisca d'Isonzo, Cormons and Staranzano, and in the other municipalities of the province of Gorizia.

Sworn translations in Friuli and in the North East

The office covers every province of Friuli Venezia Giulia and the Veneto and Emilian provinces where those who write to us have procedures under way. Nobody living in the Isonzo area has to reach a counter: the papers travel electronically and the certified file arrives at the address indicated.

Within the region we follow sworn translations in Trieste, the regional capital, certified translations in Udine and official translations in Pordenone.

Towards the Veneto the office works on sworn translations in Venice, on certified translations in Treviso, on official translations in Padua, on sworn translations in Vicenza, on sworn translations in Verona, on certified translations in Belluno and on official translations in Rovigo.

Further south and west we follow sworn translations in Ferrara and certified translations in Trent. A sworn file keeps its validity wherever the procedure is filed, so moving from one province to another changes nothing.

The English documents translated into Italian

Below are the acts for which requests are most frequent in the province. The list opens with birth certificates, the document that begins nearly every registry procedure.

Birth certificate: birth certificates are needed for transcription by 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.
Criminal record certificate and pending charges: criminal records and certificates of pending charges recur in citizenship applications and in the recruitment procedures of the shipyard and of its supply chain. Their validity is limited in time.
Diploma and educational certificate: diplomas, professional certificates, university degrees and transcripts listing subjects and marks are required by the Friulian universities and by the schools of the territory.
Passport and identity card: passports and national identity cards accompany almost every file and are attached in sworn translation in order to identify the holder of the other acts.
Certificate of family status: certificates of family status are requested for family reunification, for residence procedures and in citizenship files.
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 for the conversion procedure.
Divorce certificate and divorce decree: divorce decrees make it possible to update marital status, to remarry and to take part in proceedings on custody and maintenance.
Tax code and equivalent fiscal attestations issued abroad, needed in order to open a position with the Italian offices or to sign an employment contract.
Certificate of no impediment to marriage: it is required of anyone intending to marry in a municipality of the province of Gorizia and obliged to prove that no impediment exists.
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 Gorizia - Sworn translations

Where sworn translations from English are accepted in Gorizia

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

the Prefecture of Gorizia, for Italian citizenship applications and for the procedures of the territorial government office;
the Police Headquarters of Gorizia and the station at Monfalcone, for residence permits, renewals and family reunification;
the Municipality of Gorizia, with its registry office and civil status office, and the corresponding offices of the Collio and of the Isonzo plain;
the competent Civil Motor Vehicle Office, for the conversion of driving licences issued abroad;
the Court of Gorizia and the Office of the Public Prosecutor, for civil proceedings, for legalisations and for family cases;
the Friulian universities, the schools and the training bodies of the area, for enrolment and for the recognition of qualifications;
the Friulian health authorities and health offices, for registration with the national health service and for welfare procedures.

The Monfalcone yard and the firms of its supply chain employ workers from many countries, and the documentary checks required for access to the operating areas call for complete files from the first day of work. A missing translation can postpone an engagement by weeks, which is why the whole set of acts is usually ordered at once.

The service also covers consular acts, that is, documents issued in Italy by foreign representations. Certificates and declarations drawn up in English by a consulate on Italian soil require the same sworn certification as acts arriving from abroad.

The same translations remain valid 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. In a province where the border is a daily fact, a file that has to serve an embassy in another country is anything but unusual.

The apostille: what it is and who issues it

The apostille is the certification introduced by an international convention of 1961 to attest the authenticity of the signature and of the seal affixed to a public document intended for another contracting State.

The point that causes most confusion is competence. The apostille is affixed in the country that issued the act, by the authority that State has designated, and cannot be requested in Italy. A certificate issued in India is apostilled in India, one issued in South Africa in South Africa, one issued in the United States by the office of the state concerned. Italian offices have no power whatsoever to place it on a foreign document.

It concerns, moreover, the source document and not its translation. An act already apostilled at origin is translated and sworn in Italy without further formalities; if instead the Italian translation has to be produced abroad, then it is the sworn file that may be legalised at the Office of the Public Prosecutor and apostilled by the Italian authorities.

Two practical notes follow. Within the European Union certain civil status documents circulate without an apostille, thanks to a regulation that simplified the matter, although a sworn translation into Italian is still required when the document does not carry the standard multilingual form. And the reverse side of every sheet counts: stamps, apostilles and marginal annotations are printed there, so those pages belong in the material sent for the quotation.

Quotation and delivery of sworn translations in Gorizia

Sworn translation and certified translation describe one and the same procedure; legalisation is a further step, provided for in certain procedures only, which takes place at the Office of the Public Prosecutor and which the quotation names plainly when it is needed.

The province is small and its municipalities lie close together, but counter hours remain short: handling everything remotely spares the applicant from chasing several offices on several different days.

The quotation is free of charge 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 gives the delivery date. It remains valid for seven days. To receive it, a scan or a photograph of the documents sent by email or by messaging is enough, together with the name of the office of destination.

Those working at the yard on continuous shifts find in remote handling the only practical way of closing a procedure without giving up a day's pay, and the same is true of the seasonal staff employed along the coast at Grado during the summer months.

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