Certified Translation

Do you know what a legally or publicly notarizing translation is?

The Certified Translation (also called sworn translation) is different from a free or simple translation. It works to represent your document in another language, being recognized by many organizations, institutes, universities

or schools, companies, consulates, and other entities, because it is official.

Only the sworn translation can fit those criterias. We can compare the characteristics of a sworn translation to

services offered by notary offices: they have public faith (authentication made by a notary, who validates the truth to one’s acts), so they offer, for example, the confirmation of legal

competence of authentication and certification of signatures.

The same thing works for a certified translation: it is a translation with public faith, therefore, is legal at an international level. The sworn translator in Sao Paulo and in other cities from Brazil is the one trained to perform sworn

translations.

The Commercial Board of each state names the certified English translator via public tender (or other languages), therefore being appointed as a translator/interpreter. These are some of the information the Sworn Translator needs to translate besides the text of each document: signatures, rubrics, and stamps.

In a Certified or Public Translation, all data requires

translation. The Public or Sworn Translations follow official standards: they are made on the certified translator’s letterhead and are stamped and signed by the sworn translator.

Under two circumstances:

Brazilian documents requested abroad for those who travel to work, study, or live there.

Foreign citizens’ documents who come to work, study, or live in Brazil.

In both situations a sworn translation and other processes may be requested:

In general, a sworn translation must be attached to each Brazilian document to be requested abroad. Eventually, other procedures are also requested during the register, such as signature authentication, Hague Apostille, or Consulate Legalization.

Many factors are considered to calculate the sworn translation service price: the type of text (it may be a common text or specific documents from Sciences, Legal, Engineering, Business, Industry or other areas), the quantity of laudas or words, the language to be translated and the delivery time.

By taking above factors into account, we can say that:

1) Specific documents are harder to translate and that is why they have a higher price table when compared to translating common texts.

2) The delivery time is taken into consideration when executing a translation service because there may be the urgency factor. The normal delivery time is when the sworn translator would deliver certain documents according to a regular work schedule. Urgent Delivery Time is when the public translator needs more time out of business hours, to be able to complete the translation within the established term with the client.

3) The Sworn translation in Brazil is accounted by laudas. Lauda is a text unit that many believe to be equivalent to a page. However, pages are different than laudas since a page may contain more or less than a lauda. Lauda is a unit of one thousand characters. It is worth to mention that the number of characters may vary, as each State’s Commercial Board determines the quantity of text its lauda may contain.

4) The translated language impacts the quote since the lauda is counted according to the final certified translation, and not according to the original document. Therefore, there are languages with a higher or lower quantity of text.

The value of the laudas is determined by each State’s Commercial Board price table. Each Board issues a table of fees to perform the sworn translation service. The same works for the sworn interpretation, which is another service a sworn translator may offer.

Certified Translator and Espanglish Translations

Espanglish Translations is an agency operating in the market for decades and, with the best sworn translators, experts in several areas and languages, we provide the utmost

quality service. We guarantee a fair price, fast delivery time and effective customer service.

Espanglish is the only translation company present from the North to the South of Brazil.

The Commercial Interpreter or the Sworn Public Translator, duly approved by the State’s Commercial Board, is the one who performs the sworn translation of a certain document, whether it is from Portuguese to a foreign language or vice versa. Every sworn translator who works for Espanglish Translations has solid experience in the translation process. They master English grammar to perform an excellent translation. The sworn translation conforms to a formatting procedure, also displaying a stamp, signature, and the sworn translator’s own stamp. To be authenticated, it must contain the translator’s enrollment number, so it attests the translator is a member of the Commercial Board. Hence, it is not possible to falsify a sworn translation.