Everything you need translated for your spouse visa — marriage certificates, financial evidence, and relationship proof.
Appendix FM is the most document-heavy route UKVI runs. Marriage or partnership certificate, birth certificates, six months of bank statements, employment letters, relationship evidence — and any of those in a language other than English needs a certified translation. We handle the lot, including the awkward edge cases (multilingual Nikah Namas, redacted bank statements, WhatsApp screenshots) that trip up generalist translators.
For a UK spouse visa, you need certified translations of your marriage certificate, birth certificate, bank statements, employment letters, and any relationship evidence in a foreign language. All translations must include a statement of accuracy.
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.
Individual documents cost from £12.99 per page. A typical spouse visa translation package covering marriage certificate, birth certificates, and bank statements costs between £50–£150 depending on the number of pages.
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.
Standard spouse visa translations are delivered within 24 business hours per document. For multiple documents, we work on them simultaneously. Same-day rush service is available for urgent applications.
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.
If you are submitting WhatsApp messages or other correspondence as relationship evidence and they are in a language other than English, yes, they need certified translations. We can translate screenshots and message printouts.
No. UKVI does not require notarised translations. A certified translation with a statement of accuracy is sufficient for spouse visa applications. This saves you £30–£50 per document.
Yes, we translate all financial documents including bank statements, payslips, tax returns, employment contracts, and business accounts for spouse visa financial requirement evidence.
The sponsoring partner must typically earn at least £29,000 per year (as of 2026). All supporting financial documents in a foreign language need certified translation.
UK spouse visa processing typically takes 12–24 weeks from the date of application. Having all translations ready before you apply helps avoid delays. We recommend ordering translations early.
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