Verbatim

Application · United Kingdom

Document translation for a UK visa, from Douala

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UKVI publishes a precise requirement: for anything not in English or Welsh, a full translation carrying four details — confirmation of accuracy, the date, the translator’s full name and contact details. Every translation we deliver for a UK file carries all four, with the layout of the original preserved.

Student · work · visitor · biometric appointment

The four details UKVI expects on a translation

  1. Confirmation that the translation is accurate

    An explicit sentence, not just a signature at the foot of the page.
  2. The date of the translation

    It lets the caseworker place the translation against the document and the filing.
  3. The translator’s full name, or the company’s

    What ties the translation to an identifiable third party.
  4. Their contact details

    So the caseworker can check, if a doubt arises.

What is left to translate when you are anglophone

Your GCE certificates, a bachelor’s from Buea, a birth certificate from Bamenda: already in English, nothing to do. What tends to remain is the French half of a Cameroonian file — a police certificate from a francophone court registry, an employment letter or payslips from a Douala employer, bank statements, a sponsor’s letter written in French.

And mixed documents: an English form with a stamp or a handwritten note in French, a transcript whose grading key exists in one language only. That part gets translated; leaving it out makes the translation incomplete.

Filing happens at a VFS Global centre, which receives the application without deciding it: what the centre does.

Tabbed folder with the translator's statement clipped on top

The statement is read before the document: it says who translated, when, and who stands behind it.

UKVI format

Send the checklist with your appointment date

We tell you which items need translating and which can go in as they are. If a biometric appointment is close, tell us the date.