Arabic to English Certified Translation

MENA covers 22 countries and three distinct civil traditions. The Mashriq (Egypt, Levant, Iraq, Gulf) is one. The Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya) is another. The Arabian Peninsula's monarchies are a third. Each tradition issues civil documents in its own way. An Iraqi birth certificate is structurally different from a Saudi one. A Moroccan civil status extract — usually bilingual French-Arabic — is different again.

Marriage contracts (Aqd Qiran / عقد قران) are where most loose translations come unstuck. They use Islamic legal terms that don't map cleanly into common-law English: mahr, wali, witnesses, stipulated conditions. Each has a precise meaning that sloppy translation flattens. We assign these to translators with both Arabic legal experience and UK visa context.

All 22 — Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, the UAE, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Palestine, plus the rest of the Gulf and Maghreb. The translator working on your document specialises in documents from that specific country.

North African documents bring an extra wrinkle. Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia issue many civil documents bilingually in Arabic and French. We translate both columns when the binding detail differs across them. That can happen, especially on older Tunisian documents.

£12.99 per page is our flat rate across language pairs, regardless of country of origin. Arabic documents often carry right-to-left text alongside stamps, seals, and handwritten notes in the margin. The £12.99 covers translation of every element on the page, not just the body text. Stamps and seals get rendered too, because UKVI caseworkers look at them.