Your UK marriage or civil partnership certificate translated into Spanish and signed by a sworn translator appointed by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, within 2 working days.
A sworn marriage certificate translation into Spanish turns your UK certificate into a traducción jurada, signed by a traductor jurado appointed by Spain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Spanish consulates ask for it when a spouse joins a residence visa application, and offices in Spain can ask for it for residence cards, property purchases and the Registro Civil.
We translate the full certificate, apostille included, at £48.00 per page within 2 working days. Couples moving with children usually need a birth certificate translation as well, and anyone previously married may need a sworn divorce certificate translation. Everything else is on our sworn Spanish translation page.
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Usually, yes. The Spanish consulate in London asks spouses and civil partners included in a residence visa application, such as the non-lucrative visa, for the marriage or civil partnership certificate with an apostille and a sworn translation into Spanish.
In a visa file, the certificate does one job: it proves the person travelling with you is family, and therefore covered by the financial means you've shown. The consulate's checklist pairs it with an apostille on the original and a traducción jurada, and family members on other residence visas, including the digital nomad visa, are usually asked for the same.
Residence is then finalised in Spain, at the TIE (Tarjeta de Identidad de Extranjero) appointment with the extranjería office or police station, which can involve the same documents again. Keep the translation with the original. Spanish bureaucracy rewards anyone who arrives with a tidy folder.
If one spouse is Spanish, the marriage can be registered with the Spanish Civil Registry, either through the Spanish consulate covering the place of marriage or through the Registro Civil in Spain. The London consulate currently asks for a British marriage certificate issued within the last 6 months.
Here's the useful twist: for marriages celebrated within its consular district, the Consulate General of Spain in London says documents in English, French or Portuguese don't need translating. If you register there, you may not need us at all, and we'd rather tell you that than sell you a translation nobody reads.
Registering through an office in Spain is a different matter, and each Registro Civil can ask for a traducción jurada of a foreign certificate. Once the marriage is registered, the Spanish entry is what Spanish authorities will rely on in future, which saves translating the British certificate every few years.
A certified copy of the marriage register entry, issued by the General Register Office or the local register office, not a ceremony or souvenir certificate. Some Spanish offices want it issued recently, so check the date requirement first.
Wedding venues sometimes hand out a decorative certificate. It looks lovely on a mantelpiece and has no standing in a Spanish office; the certified copy of the register entry is the one that counts.
Formats vary. Marriages in England and Wales registered from May 2021 appear on a certificate printed from the electronic register, which records both parents of each spouse rather than fathers only. Older certificates are often handwritten, with columns for rank or profession, and Scottish and Northern Irish certificates use their own layouts. We translate whichever you have, field by field, including annotations and any corrections in the margin.
Usually, yes, for visa and residence applications. The FCDO Legalisation Office issues apostilles on UK certificates. The London consulate's Civil Registry is an exception: it doesn't ask for an apostille on the British marriage certificate being registered there.
We don't issue apostilles. If the office needs one, get it first and send us the apostilled certificate so the apostille is translated as part of the same traducción jurada. Our apostille translation page explains the sequence.
They may. When a married buyer signs an escritura in Spain, the notary records their marital status and matrimonial property regime, and can ask for evidence of the marriage. Ask the notary or your lawyer what they need before ordering.
Spain cares a great deal about the régimen económico matrimonial, the property regime that decides who owns what within a marriage. English law has no default regime of that kind, a gap that has given Spanish notaries plenty to think about over the years. A sworn translation of the marriage certificate is one of the documents that can come up, alongside each buyer's NIE and evidence of how the purchase is paid.
If the notary gives you a list, send it to us with your documents and we'll quote for exactly that. Start on the online quote form.
Yes. Civil partnership certificates are translated in the same way as marriage certificates and signed by a traductor jurado. How a Spanish office treats a civil partnership is up to that office, so check before you apply.
£48.00 per page, charged in pounds sterling. A UK marriage certificate is usually one page, plus an attached apostille.
Up to 2 working days. There is no rush service for sworn Spanish translations.
Its current guidance says documents in English, French or Portuguese don't need translating for marriages celebrated in its consular district. Offices in Spain may still ask for one.
No. Spanish offices need a certified copy of the marriage register entry from the register office or the General Register Office.
It shows names exactly as they appear on the certificate. If your passport shows a different surname, mention it when you order so we can check the spellings across the documents you're submitting.
A traductor-intérprete jurado appointed by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation.
Every document includes 2 free revisions, so tell us and the translator will amend it.
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