Sworn translations from English into Italian in Macerata

The province of Macerata runs from the Adriatic to the Sibillini mountains and holds together very different worlds: Civitanova Marche with its footwear district and its harbour, the provincial capital with a university of long legal tradition, and the inland municipalities struck by the earthquake, where reconstruction is still under way.

This office prepares sworn translations from English into Italian in Macerata, certified before the competent officer and delivered ready to be filed. Anyone holding papers issued by an English-speaking authority finds a service that follows the entire procedure, from the quotation to the delivery of the sworn file.

The service is addressed to English-speaking residents of the province and to everyone who arrives with documents drawn up in English: for those coming from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, employed in the shoe factories of the coast, for applicants from Nigeria, Ghana and the Philippines, and for British, Irish, American and Canadian citizens who study or teach in the two university towns.

In the inland municipalities many residents have changed address more than once since the earthquake, and the registry offices work from temporary premises. A sworn file is unaffected by those moves: it belongs to the person and keeps its value wherever it is produced.

The official translations in Italy produced here are accepted in Civitanova Marche, Recanati, Tolentino, Porto Recanati, San Severino Marche, Corridonia and in the other municipalities of the province.

The English documents translated into Italian

The acts listed below are those most often requested between the coast and the mountains. The sequence opens with the qualifications, which in a province with two universities and a manufacturing district open a good many procedures.

Diploma and educational certificate: diplomas, university degrees, professional qualifications and transcripts listing subjects and marks are requested by the universities of the province, by the schools and by the training bodies of the area.
Birth certificate: birth certificates serve for transcription, for registration with the registry office, for marriage and for Italian citizenship applications.
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 may be identified.
Criminal record certificate and pending charges: criminal records and certificates of pending charges recur in citizenship applications and in the recruitment procedures of the footwear industry and of the reconstruction sites. Their validity is limited in time.
Marriage certificate: marriage certificates allow transcription in the Italian civil status registers, reunification with a spouse and the reconstruction of family records.
Certificate of family status: certificates of family status are asked for in family reunification, in 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, which matters greatly where the valleys are served by few buses.
Certificate of no impediment to marriage: it is required of anyone intending to marry in a municipality of the province of Macerata and having to prove freedom of status.
Divorce certificate and divorce decree: divorce decrees allow marital status to be updated, make a new marriage possible and are produced 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.
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 Macerata - Sworn translations

Registration with the registry office and residence

Registration with the registry office of the municipality is the act by which a person becomes resident in Italy for every practical purpose: it opens the way to the health card, to the tax position, to the driving licence and to a good part of the welfare procedures.

Applicants from an English-speaking country arrive at that counter with acts issued abroad. The birth certificate serves to establish identity as the registers record it; the marriage certificate and the certificate of family status establish the composition of the household to be registered. Each of them is presented with a sworn translation into Italian, and with the apostille where the State of issue adheres to the Convention.

The registry officer compares what is written in the sworn text with the details already held by the administration, and where the two differ the procedure stops until the discrepancy is explained. Dates written in the order used in the United States, middle names and surnames of married women recorded in more than one form are the usual causes.

Naming the office of destination when the quotation is requested allows the file to be prepared for that specific procedure, which in the municipalities of the reconstruction is not always handled at the same address as before.

Sworn translations in the Marche and in the neighbouring regions

The office covers every province of the Marche and the bordering provinces of Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo and Tuscany. Residents of the province need not reach any counter: the papers travel electronically and the sworn file arrives at the address indicated.

Within the region we follow sworn translations in Ancona, the regional capital, certified translations in Fermo, the neighbouring province to the south, official translations in Ascoli Piceno and sworn translations in Pesaro.

Beyond the Apennines, towards Umbria and Lazio, we work on certified translations in Perugia, on official translations in Terni, on sworn translations in Rieti and on certified translations in Rome.

Southwards and inland we follow official translations in L'Aquila, sworn translations in Teramo, certified translations in Pescara and official translations in Arezzo.

Where sworn translations from English are accepted in Macerata

A translation sworn by an official translator carries full legal validity before every Italian administration. In the provincial capital, along the coast and in the inland valleys the files delivered by this office are habitually submitted to:

the Prefecture of Macerata, for Italian citizenship applications and for the procedures of the territorial government office;
the Police Headquarters of Macerata and the district offices of Civitanova and Tolentino, for residence permits, renewals and family reunification;
the Municipality of Macerata, with its registry office and civil status office, and the corresponding offices of the coastal and mountain municipalities;
the competent Civil Motor Vehicle Office, for the conversion of driving licences issued abroad;
the Court of Macerata and the Office of the Public Prosecutor, for civil proceedings, for legalisations and for family cases;
the universities of Macerata and Camerino, the schools and the training bodies of the territory, for enrolment and for the recognition of qualifications;
the health authorities of the Marche and the local 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 coming from abroad.

The same translations keep their validity outside Italy, 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. Families of the province with relatives working abroad turn to a consulate more often than one would expect.

Quotation and delivery of sworn translations in Macerata

Sworn translation and certified translation describe the same operation: the translator assumes before a public official 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 only in certain procedures: when the receiving office asks for it, the sworn file passes to the Office of the Public Prosecutor for the signature of the competent authority, and the quotation says whether it applies. The apostille concerns the source document, is affixed in the State that issued the act and cannot be obtained in Italy.

The quotation is free of charge and is calculated on the actual text of the acts. It gives a final figure, inclusive of duties and revenue stamps, of the sworn statement and of delivery, and it indicates the delivery date. It remains valid for seven days. A scan or a photograph of the documents sent by email or by messaging is enough to obtain it, and no paper original is needed at that stage.

For those living in the mountain municipalities, where counter hours are short and the road to the provincial capital is long, the remote handling of the procedure is what makes it manageable. Every file is prepared by an official translator entered on the Register of Experts of the Chamber of Commerce and is delivered ready to be submitted, with the sworn statement and the stamps already in place, so that nothing remains to be added at the counter.

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 subject at traduzioni giurate di inglese a Macerata.