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Consular certification in a foreign embassy might be performed only after your documents have been translated and legalized. Usually it is done upon the express requirement of the foreign authorities in order to confirm the truthfulness of the translated documents. Consular certification in a foreign embassy is also required in case you make translation and legalization in Bulgaria of a copy of document, acquired abroad, for example, in case you want to legalize locally your Hungarian birth certificate, etc.

You have to legalize a document on every single occasion, when, in case of living, working or studying you have to certify various personal circumstances or data before the respective local authorities. Document legalization is necessary, as well, when you want to naturalize in Bulgaria a document of educational qualification acquired abroad, to certify a marriage contracted abroad or different personal circumstances and data acquired abroad, before the Bulgarian authorities.

The translation and legalization are done by a licensed agency, because it works with sworn translators, approved by the Consular Relation Directorate under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and it has a valid contract for document legalization with the Consular Relation Directorate. Only a licensed agency can handle legally your documents.

An official translation is a translation made by a sworn translator on a letterhead of a licensed translation agency bearing the translator’s signature and the seal of the agency. A legalized translation is a translation that complies with the above-mentioned requirements and, in addition, is officially certified by the respective state institutions and the Consular Relation Directorate under the Ministry of Interior as the ultimate certifying instance.

Upon consultation with our Office Managers the legalization price will be completely paid and the translation price will be paid in advance. Payment in advance might not be necessary should you become a regular client of ours.

The prices of translation services depend on the agency that renders the translation and on its location. It is quite natural that the prices of an agency located in the Lyulin residential area are lower than the prices of an agency located at Graf Ignatiev Street because translation services cost increases in a direct ration from the periphery to the centre of Sofia. Prices of translation services might vary, as well, depending on the language of translation and the fixed term. For instance, translation into Polish is more expensive than translation into French and less expensive than translation into Albanian. Prices are not always determined by the quality and speed of service. In short, that’s the market.

For further details see the web page of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tariff №3 for Consular Service Fees in the system of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the Stamp Duty Act (adopted by Decree of the Council of Ministers №49 of 4.04.2000, published in the Official Gazette, issue 30 of 11.04.2000, valid as of 11.04.2000, amended and supplemented, issue 52 of 27.06.2000, valid as of 27.06.2000).

The procedure of document legalization is related to official certification in various Bulgarian state and economic institutions and depends on the type of translated documents. For further details contact our offices and consult the Office Manager who will inform you about the whole procedure, duration and cost of the legalization of the translated document. You can get an idea about the procedure complexity from the following example: a Diploma for Completed Higher Education and the Annex to it are two separate documents that require notary certification of the copies; certification in the Ministry of Education and Science; translation of the documents; legalization in the Consular Relations Directorate at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Additionally, a Consular certification in a foreign embassy might be required.

These are different types of interpreting, employed in case of escorting, business negotiations, conferences, etc. Simultaneous translation is employed at all kinds of multi-language conferences, symposia and congresses and means that the interpreting is performed simultaneously with the speaking. Consecutive translation is mainly employed at escorting and business negotiations and means that the interpreting follows the speaking. With some difficult languages e.g. Hungarian, where the syntactic structure of sentence is reverse in comparison to the one of the Slavonic languages, simultaneous interpreting is rarely employed.

Usually you need a translation of documents from Bulgarian into a foreign language in cases, as follows: application for a job or education abroad, contraction of marriage out of the country, certification of various personal circumstances and data before foreign authorities, etc. And vice versa, you need a translation from a foreign language into Bulgarian in the following cases: naturalization of educational qualification acquired abroad, contraction of marriage with a foreign citizen, certification of various personal circumstances and data acquired abroad, before the Bulgarian authorities.

Yes! All you have to do is give us your mail address abroad and we will send the documents to you as soon as possible. The postage fee will be included in the sum total of translation and legalization.

When ordering a translation of documents you have to construe all abbreviations that might cause difficulty to the translator, as well as to write the transcription of your full name as it is written in your passport. It is necessary that you have fulfilled all the preliminary requirements for the legalization of a certain document, i.e. to have provided the special rectangular stamp affixed upon issuing of a birth certificate at the municipal service without which the document cannot be legalized, etc.