Document Translation for UK Spouse Visa Applications

A spouse visa application has to prove four things at once: who you are, that you're actually married (or in a genuine durable relationship), that you can be supported financially, and that the relationship is real. Anything that backs up any of those four — and isn't already in English or Welsh — needs a certified translation.

An anonymised case from March: a client's Pakistani Nikah Nama got flagged by UKVI because the witness signatures hadn't been transliterated. We turned the corrected translation around in under 24 hours, this time with the witness names rendered in both English script and Urdu. The visa came through on the very next decision. Small detail, big delay if missed.

Spouse applications vary wildly. Some are tidy — a marriage certificate and two birth certificates, three pages, £39 of translation done. Others run to 20+ pages once you factor in six months of bilingual bank statements and a folder of WhatsApp screenshots used as relationship evidence.

The per-page rate doesn't move with volume. £12.99 whether you're translating one page or thirty. It also doesn't move with language pair — Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Polish, Tagalog all sit at the same rate, which isn't true everywhere on the UK market.

Spouse applications run on the clock — couples separated by visa processing aren't reading our SLA documents to feel reassured. Our standard turnaround is 24 business hours per document, and we run multiple documents from the same order in parallel rather than sequentially, so a five-document order doesn't take five days.

If you've got a Home Office submission deadline closing in, the same-day rush service guarantees inside 8 hours, 24/7. We see it most often for spouse visa supplementary submissions where UKVI has come back asking for one more piece of evidence with a tight reply window.