Sworn translations from English into Italian in Novara

Novara lies on the axis between Turin and Milan, and that position has made it one of the leading logistics hubs of northern Italy. The inland terminal, the warehouses and the haulage firms employ a growing share of the workforce, alongside the rice fields of the plain and the university that hosts the scientific faculties of eastern Piedmont.

This office prepares sworn translations from English into Italian in Novara, certified before the competent officer and delivered ready to be filed. Anyone holding acts issued in an English-speaking country finds a service that covers the procedure from the quotation to the consignment of the finished file.

The service is meant for English-speaking residents of the province and for everyone arriving with papers written in English: for those coming from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, from Nigeria and Ghana, from the Philippines, and for British, Irish, American and Canadian citizens who have settled between the city and the shore of Lake Maggiore.

A good many residents of this province work across the boundary in Lombardy while keeping their address here, because housing costs less on the Piedmontese side of the Ticino. A certified file holds good in both regions, and before any Italian office, so a commute across a regional border changes nothing in the papers.

The certified translations in Italy issued here are accepted in Borgomanero, Trecate, Galliate, Oleggio, Arona and Cameri, and in the other municipalities of the province of Novara.

Italian offices that accept these sworn translations

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

the Prefecture of Novara, for applications for Italian citizenship and for the procedures of the territorial government office;
the Police Headquarters of Novara and the stations of the territory, for residence permits, renewals and family reunification;
the Municipality of Novara, with its registry office and its civil status office, and the equivalent offices of the lower plain and of the upper Novarese;
the competent Civil Motor Vehicle Office, for the conversion of driving licences issued abroad;
the Court of Novara and the Office of the Public Prosecutor, for civil proceedings, for legalisations and for family cases;
the University of Eastern Piedmont and the schools of the territory, for enrolment and for the recognition of qualifications gained abroad;
the Piedmontese health authorities and the health offices of the area, for registration with the national health service and for welfare procedures.

The service includes 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, most of which have their seat in nearby Milan, need the same certification as acts arriving from abroad.

The same translations keep their value 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. The Swiss border is close at hand, and a consulate there often asks for the Italian version of a foreign act.

English documents translated for the offices of the province

The acts listed below are those for which requests arrive most often in this area. The list opens with the acts of civil status, the first to be asked of anyone registering with the registry office of a municipality of the province.

Birth certificate: birth certificates serve for transcription in the registry office, for registration of residence, for marriage and for applications for Italian citizenship.
Marriage certificate: marriage certificates permit transcription in the Italian civil status registers, reunification with a spouse and the reconstruction of a family record.
Driving licence and vehicle registration document: licences issued outside the European Union and vehicle registration documents are translated and certified so as to drive during the period allowed and to complete the conversion procedure.
Criminal record certificate and pending charges: criminal records and certificates of pending charges recur in citizenship applications and in many recruitment procedures of the logistics sector. Their validity is limited in time.
Passport and identity card: passports and national identity cards accompany nearly every file and are attached in sworn translation in order to identify the holder of the other acts.
Diploma and academic certificate: diplomas, degree certificates and transcripts of subjects and marks are examined by the university of Novara and by the schools of the territory for enrolment and for the recognition of qualifications.
Tax code and 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 family status: certificates of family status are asked for in family reunification, in residence procedures and in citizenship files.
Certificate of no impediment to marriage: it is required of anyone intending to marry in a municipality of the province of Novara and obliged to prove that no impediment exists.
Divorce certificate and divorce decree: divorce decrees allow marital status to be brought up to date, make a new marriage possible and are produced in proceedings on custody and maintenance.
Other identity documents and administrative acts: residence certificates, death certificates, powers of attorney and declarations signed by English-speaking authorities travel with residence permits, civil status files and inheritance procedures.

Moving from one municipality to another within the same urban area, a common thing between Novara, Trecate and Galliate, means registering afresh with the new registry office but not having the translations made again: the certified file follows the person and keeps its value anywhere in the country.

Court of Novara - Sworn translations

Family reunification and the papers it calls for

Reunification is the procedure by which a foreign national lawfully resident in Italy brings a spouse, a child or a dependent parent to live with them. It begins at the immigration desk of the Prefecture, which issues the authorisation, and it ends at the consulate in the country of origin, which grants the visa.

Between those two moments stand the documents, and the family relationship is what has to be proved. The marriage certificate establishes the bond with a spouse; the birth certificates of the children establish parenthood; the certificate of family status shows the composition of the household; a divorce decree, where there has been an earlier marriage, explains the present position. Every one of these acts is issued abroad, in English, and reaches the Italian office with a sworn translation into Italian and with the apostille of the issuing State where the Hague Convention applies.

Two difficulties recur. In several countries the registration of a birth may have taken place years after the event, and the act then bears both dates: the Italian text keeps them apart so that the officer is not left to guess. Names, too, must be consistent across the acts, and the differences in transliteration usual in the registers of India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the Philippines are reproduced without being silently tidied up.

The authorisation has a limited life, and the visa must be applied for while it still runs. Preparing the translations while the request is being examined, rather than after the authorisation arrives, keeps the family from losing weeks at the last stage.

Sworn translations across Piedmont and beyond the Ticino

The office covers every Piedmontese province and the Lombard provinces immediately across the border. Nobody living here has to reach a counter: the papers travel electronically and the certified file arrives at the address indicated.

In the northern quarter of the region we follow sworn translations in Vercelli, with which the rice-growing plain is shared, certified translations in Biella and official translations in Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, going up towards Lake Maggiore.

Towards the regional capital and the south we work on sworn translations in Turin, on certified translations in Alessandria, on official translations in Asti and on sworn translations in Cuneo.

Beyond the Ticino, where many residents of this province work every day, we look after certified translations in Milan, official translations in Varese, sworn translations in Pavia, certified translations in Como and official translations in Lodi.

Quotation and delivery of the certified file

Sworn translation and certified translation mean the same thing: the translator answers before a public officer for the correspondence between the source text and the Italian one, and the record of the oath remains 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 apostille concerns the document of origin and not its translation: it is affixed in the State that issued the act and cannot be applied here, so the papers must already bear that stamp when the procedure requires one.

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 oath and of delivery, and it names the date of consignment. It remains valid for seven days. A scan or a photograph sent by email or by messaging is enough to obtain it, together with the name of the destination office.

Those working shifts in the warehouses of the inland terminal need take no time off: the procedure is handled entirely at a distance and the file is delivered where indicated. Every translation 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 subject at traduzioni giurate di inglese a Novara.