Sworn translations from English into Italian in Piacenza

Piacenza stands where four regions meet, and it has become one of the busiest logistics hubs in the country. Around the warehouses and the haulage yards a settled foreign population has grown up, and from there comes a good share of the files entrusted to this office.

Here are produced sworn translations from English into Italian in Piacenza, certified before the competent officer of the court and delivered ready to be filed. Anyone holding certificates issued in an English-speaking country finds a service that covers the whole path, from the quotation to the delivery of the completed file.

The service is available to English-speaking residents of the province and to everyone arriving with papers written in English: for those coming from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, for the communities from Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon, for people who have worked in the United Kingdom, in Ireland or in the United States. Many of these households moved here from Milan or from Genoa for reasons of work.

The border position has a practical consequence: those who live in the area often work in Lombardy and have relatives in a third province. The sworn file, however, keeps its validity throughout the country, so there is no need to have a translation done again at every change of province.

The official translations in Italy prepared here are valid across the whole province of Piacenza: in Fiorenzuola d'Arda, Castel San Giovanni, Rottofreno, Podenzano, Carpaneto Piacentino and Bettola, and in the other municipalities of the Arda and Tidone valleys. Nobody has to travel or to appear in person.

Sworn translations across the provinces of Emilia-Romagna

The via Emilia begins in this city, and from here the service extends to every province of the region as well as to the Lombard side, which starts a few kilometres from the provincial capital.

Along the via Emilia the office follows sworn translations in Parma, certified translations in Reggio Emilia, official translations in Modena and sworn translations in Bologna, the regional capital.

In the eastern part of the region the work continues with certified translations in Ferrara, official translations in Ravenna, sworn translations in Forlì-Cesena and certified translations in Rimini.

Towards Lombardy, where many residents of the province work every day, the same service reaches official translations in Cremona, sworn translations in Lodi, certified translations in Pavia and official translations in Milan.

The English documents translated for the offices of Piacenza

The acts listed below are those most often requested here. The list opens with the certificates tied to employment, which in this logistics district account for the largest share of the work.

Criminal record certificate and pending charges: criminal records and certificates of pending charges are asked for in citizenship applications and in many recruitment procedures, including those of the transport sector. Their validity is limited in time, so the translation is best obtained as soon as the original is issued.
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 with the motor vehicle office.
Birth certificate: birth certificates are needed for transcription in the registry office, for residence registration, for marriage and for applications for Italian citizenship.
Marriage certificate: marriage certificates allow transcription in the civil status registers, reunification with a spouse and the reconstruction of family records.
Tax code and equivalent fiscal attestations issued abroad, needed in order to open a position with the Italian offices and to sign a contract of employment or a tenancy agreement.
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.
Diploma and educational certificate: diplomas, university degrees and transcripts listing subjects and marks are asked for by the universities and by the schools, for enrolment and for the recognition of the qualification.
Divorce certificate and divorce decree: divorce decrees make it possible to update marital status, to marry again, and are produced in proceedings on custody and maintenance.
Certificate of no impediment to marriage: it is required of anyone intending to marry in a municipality of the province of Piacenza and having to prove that there is no impediment.
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.

In English-speaking countries the civil register is kept sometimes nationally, sometimes by state, province or county, so that two certificates of the same kind may arrive with different layouts and different wording. The differences are formal, but they have to be recognised for the Italian text to be accepted at the counter.

Court of Piacenza - Sworn translations

Family reunification and the acts that prove a family tie

Reunification is the procedure in which foreign civil status acts weigh most, because the whole application rests on a tie that has to be proved on paper before it can be recognised.

The file is built around the marriage certificate for a spouse, the birth certificates of the children, the certificate of family status and, where the relationship is with a parent or a dependent relative, the acts that link the generations. Each of them travels with the apostille or the legalisation prescribed for the issuing State and with a sworn translation into Italian, and the prefecture examines them together rather than one by one.

Two points come up again and again. Personal details must agree across every paper: a name recorded in two different forms between the passport and the register is enough to bring a request for clarification. And where a marriage or a birth has already been transcribed in an Italian municipality, the Italian certificate takes the place of the foreign one, which spares both time and expense.

Timing matters as much as content. Certificates of family status and criminal records lose their currency after a few months, while the examination of an application can run longer than that: gathering them once the rest of the file is nearly complete avoids having to order them a second time from the country of origin.

Adoptions, recognitions of a child and court orders on custody follow the same route, with the difference that they are decisions rather than certificates: the operative part and the date on which the decision became final are what the Italian office looks for, so those elements are rendered with particular care.

Where sworn translations from English are accepted in Piacenza

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, for applications for Italian citizenship and for the procedures of the territorial government office;
the Police Headquarters and the police stations of the area, for residence permits, renewals and family reunification;
the Municipality of Piacenza, with its registry office and its civil status office, and the corresponding offices of the municipalities of the province;
the Civil Motor Vehicle Office, for the conversion of driving licences obtained abroad;
the Court and the Office of the Public Prosecutor, for civil proceedings, for legalisations and for family cases;
the universities and the schools of the area, for enrolment on courses and for the recognition of qualifications obtained abroad;
the local 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 that foreign representations issue on Italian soil. Drawn up in English, they call for the same sworn certification as the acts that arrive from abroad if they are to be filed with an Italian office.

The same translations are equally valid 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.

How to request a quotation for a sworn translation

Sworn translation and certified translation are one thing said in two ways: before a public officer the translator takes responsibility for the correspondence between the source text and the Italian one. Legalisation is one step more, required in certain procedures only, and it takes place at the Office of the Public Prosecutor; the quotation says whether it is needed.

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 dispatch, and it indicates the delivery date. It remains valid for seven days.

To obtain it, a scan or a photograph of the documents sent by email or by messaging is enough, together with the name of the office for which the file is intended. The paper original is not needed at this stage.

Every translation is carried out by an official translator entered on the Register of Experts of the Chamber of Commerce and handed over ready to be filed. The sworn translation services in Italy offered here run exclusively towards Italian: the opposite direction, from Italian into English, does not form part of the service, nor is the apostille affixed here or notarial deeds drawn up.

Italian-speaking readers will find the corresponding page at traduzioni giurate di inglese a Piacenza.