Spouse Visa Translation Services UK

What the Home Office asks for

Two GOV.UK pages set the standard. The family visa page says you must provide a certified translation of any document that is not in English or Welsh. The page on certifying a document says each translation must include:

• confirmation that it is a true and accurate translation of the original document
• the date of the translation
• the translator's full name and contact details

Every page we deliver carries these points. We do not decide your visa, and nobody can promise you one. What we control is the translation: complete, consistent and certified in the published format.

Which documents your own case needs depends on your route and your circumstances. A regulated immigration adviser can confirm that. Once you know the list, we translate it.

How we keep a spouse visa bundle consistent

A caseworker reads your file as one story. If the marriage certificate, bank statements and tenancy letter disagree on a name or an address, the story gets harder to follow. So we work on the bundle as a set, not as separate orders.

• One name list. Before translation starts, we fix the spelling of every person named, taken from the passports, and use it on every page.
• One address format. Foreign addresses are kept in their original order, so they match what appears on the originals and on any earlier application.
• Clear amounts. Currency, decimal marks and dates follow the original exactly. We do not convert currency, because the caseworker needs to see the figures as the bank printed them.
• Flagged gaps. If a page is missing from a run of statements, or a stamp is unreadable, we tell you before delivery.

Before you send your file

Scan or photograph each page flat, in good light, with all four corners showing. Include the back of any certificate that carries a stamp or note. Add both passports' name pages. If one document is a continuation of another, such as several months of statements, send them in date order. Tell us your route, for example spouse, unmarried partner or dependant partner, so we can check nothing obvious is missing. And if you are still collecting evidence, send what you have now: we can translate in stages and keep the same spellings throughout.

What we see in real spouse visa files

In recent months this site has had 13 enquiries for spouse, partner, family and dependant partner visas, in languages from German and French to Arabic, Chinese and Indonesian. They show how wide a spouse visa file can be:

• Big financial bundles. One family visa file had 114 pages of bank statements. Others needed one or two statements and asked whether notarisation was required (the family visa guidance asks for a certified translation).
• Accommodation papers. A landlord confirmation letter and a property sale document both had to be translated for spouse visas.
• Partnerships, not just marriages. A same-sex civil union certificate was translated for a partner's dependant visa.
• Past decisions. One applicant needed a foreign residence decision letter translated to explain their history.

The common problem is names. A spouse's name may be spelt one way on a marriage certificate and another on a bank statement. We use the passport spelling everywhere and flag any mismatch in the originals before delivery, so you can explain it in your application if needed.