Interpretation of Foreign Documents

We help clients understand foreign-language and foreign-issued documents and what an application requires of them.

When a residence permit or similar application includes documents in another language, authorities often require them to be translated by an authorised translator, at the applicant’s cost. Some civil-status documents, such as birth, marriage or death certificates, may instead be accepted with an official multilingual standard form obtained from the issuing authority. We advise on which applies.