Sworn translations from English into Italian in Rimini

Rimini lives on hospitality: hotels, beach establishments, restaurants and the exhibition centre that keeps the low season busy as well. It is an economy that recruits in waves, and the requests reaching this office follow the same rhythm, gathering in the months that come before the summer.

This office prepares sworn translations from English into Italian in Rimini, certified before the competent officer and delivered ready to be filed. Anyone holding documents issued in an English-speaking country finds a service that covers the whole path, from the quotation to the delivery of the sworn file.

The service is available to English-speaking residents of the province and to everyone who arrives with acts drawn up in English: for those coming from the United Kingdom and Ireland, from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, from the Philippines, Nigeria and Ghana, and for the many seasonal workers who reach the coast with papers issued in English-speaking States.

The seasonal pattern raises a question of timing that is best anticipated: someone arriving on a summer contract obtains residence when the season is already running, while the criminal records and civil status certificates asked for at recruitment have a limited period of validity. Moving before the season opens saves requesting the same acts twice.

The certified translations in Italy that leave this office are accepted in Riccione, Cattolica, Bellaria-Igea Marina, Santarcangelo di Romagna, Misano Adriatico, Verucchio and Novafeltria, as well as in the provincial capital.

The English documents translated for the offices of Rimini

Below are the acts for which requests arrive most often from the province. The list opens with identity documents, the first to be asked of anyone arriving for a working season.

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.
Criminal record certificate and pending charges: criminal records and certificates of pending charges recur in citizenship applications and in numerous recruitment procedures of the hotel and catering trades. Their validity is limited in time.
Birth certificate: birth certificates serve for transcription in the registry office, for residence registration, for marriage and for Italian citizenship applications.
Certificate of family status: certificates of family status are requested for family reunification, for residence procedures and in citizenship files.
Marriage certificate: marriage certificates allow transcription in the Italian civil status registers, reunification with a spouse and the reconstruction of family records.
Driving licence and vehicle registration document: licences issued outside the European Union and vehicle registration certificates are translated and sworn in order to drive during the period allowed and for the conversion procedure.
Diploma and educational certificate: diplomas, professional qualifications and transcripts listing subjects and marks are required by the catering colleges, by the university departments and by the training bodies of the area.
Tax code and equivalent fiscal attestations issued abroad, needed in order to open a position with the Italian offices or to sign a seasonal employment contract.
Certificate of no impediment to marriage: it is required of anyone intending to marry in a municipality of the province of Rimini and having to prove that there is no impediment.
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 Rimini - Sworn translations

Where these sworn translations are filed

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

the Prefecture of Rimini, for Italian citizenship applications and for the procedures of the territorial government office;
the Police Headquarters of Rimini and the stations of the area, for residence permits, renewals and family reunification;
the Municipality of Rimini, with its registry office and civil status office, and the corresponding offices of the coast and of the Valmarecchia;
the competent Civil Motor Vehicle Office, for the conversion of driving licences issued abroad;
the Court of Rimini and the Office of the Public Prosecutor, for civil proceedings, for legalisations and for family cases;
the university departments and the schools of the area, for enrolment and for the recognition of qualifications obtained abroad;
the health authorities of Emilia-Romagna, for registration with the national health service and for welfare procedures.

The service also takes in 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 require the same sworn certification as acts arriving from abroad.

The same translations hold good 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.

Marrying in Italy with documents issued abroad

The coast celebrates a fair number of weddings between people who were born elsewhere, and the civil status office asks the same thing of each of them: proof that nothing under the law of their own country stands in the way of the marriage. That proof is the certificate of no impediment, issued by the authority of the State of citizenship or by its consular office in Italy.

Around that certificate the file takes shape. A birth certificate identifies each party, and where a previous marriage has ended, the divorce decree or the death certificate of the former spouse shows that the person is free to marry again. Every act formed abroad reaches the registrar with a sworn translation into Italian attached to it.

Timing deserves attention. Documents of this kind carry their own period of validity, sometimes a few months only, and the publication of banns has to fall inside it; a certificate obtained too early expires before the date fixed for the ceremony and has to be requested again.

After the wedding the same office issues the Italian marriage certificate, and couples who intend to have the union recorded in their country of origin will need it there. That direction of travel, from Italian into English, lies outside this service, which works towards Italian alone.

Sworn translations in Romagna and along the Adriatic

The office covers every province of the region and the neighbouring Marche and Tuscan ones. Those living around Rimini need not reach any counter: the papers travel electronically and the sworn file arrives at the address indicated.

In Romagna we follow sworn translations in Forlì-Cesena, the neighbouring province to the north, and official translations in Ravenna, which closes the regional stretch of coast.

Along the via Emilia the office works on certified translations in Bologna, on sworn translations in Ferrara, on official translations in Modena, on sworn translations in Reggio Emilia, on certified translations in Parma and on official translations in Piacenza.

Southwards, along the Adriatic and inland, we follow sworn translations in Pesaro, immediately across the regional boundary, official translations in Ancona, certified translations in Macerata and, beyond the Apennines, sworn translations in Arezzo.

This province also borders the Republic of San Marino, and it happens that those working there keep their residence in an Italian municipality. Even then it is the Italian offices that ask for foreign documents translated and sworn, because registration in the population register decides which administration handles the file.

Quotation and delivery of sworn translations in Rimini

Sworn translation and certified translation mean the same thing: the translator assumes responsibility before a public officer 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, in which the sworn file passes to the Office of the Public Prosecutor for the signature of the competent authority.

The apostille concerns the source document and not the translation: it is affixed in the State that issued the act and cannot be applied here, so where a procedure calls for it the papers have to arrive already bearing the stamp.

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 indicates the delivery date. It remains valid for seven days, and it says whether the sworn statement suffices or the second step is needed as well.

Those working in the hotels of the coast, on hours that cover the whole day in the peak months, handle the procedure at a distance and receive the file where they indicate. A scan or a photograph sent by email or by messaging is enough, together with the office of destination and any date that has to be met.

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 exclusively towards Italian: the opposite path, from Italian into English, does not form part of the service. Italian-speaking readers will find the corresponding page at traduzioni giurate di inglese a Rimini.