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Certified Degree Certificate Translation Service for UKVI

You studied for years and the paper proves it, but in the UK nobody can act on it until it is in English. That is true for a visa caseworker, an admissions team, a nursing board and the office that compares your award to a British one. A certified degree certificate translation is the step that unlocks all of them.

Most people send us the award itself plus a transcript, and sometimes the module list behind it. We get diplomas from Italy, Germany, Greece, France, Spain, Romania and Turkey every week, and a fair few written in Latin, which older universities still use.

  • Grades stay as you earned them — a 1.7 or a 110 e lode is left alone, never turned into a British grade
  • Module lists welcome — transcripts and course pages are quoted with the award, not as a second job
  • Latin is no trouble — old award wording is read by someone who knows it
  • The check page goes in too — codes and links that let an office verify your paper are carried across
  • Our credentials on the page — assessors do ring to check, so the name and number are right there
  • Built for closing dates — enrolment and start dates are tight, so urgent jobs jump the queue
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Who Asks For Degree Certificate Translation For UKVI Files

A degree earned abroad has to be understood before anyone can give it weight. Sometimes that is a visa office, more often it is a university or a board that lets you work. Academic papers are one of the steadiest jobs inside our UK visa translation services, and here is who sends them.

Comparing Your Award

The office that says what your degree is worth in British terms wants it in English first.

Applying To A University

Masters and second degree places, where admissions read the award and the marks behind it.

Skilled Worker Visas

Sponsors checking that the qualification really matches the job they are offering you.

Graduate Route Files

Proof of study for people staying on to work after finishing a course.

Nursing And Medical Boards

Registration with the bodies that decide whether you can practise here at all.

Trade And Site Cards

Building and engineering cards, where the training paper has to be read before one is issued.

Employer Background Checks

HR teams making sure a certificate says what a CV says it does before a start date.

Proving Your English

Degrees taught in English, sent in so a language test can be skipped.

School Papers For A Child

Reports and leaving certificates handed to a UK school when a family moves over.

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Getting An Academic Certificate Translated For The Home Office

Three steps and no forms to fill in. Send the award, tell us if a transcript is going with it, and read the English copy the next morning.

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Send the award and the marks

Most offices want both. A clear photo of the certificate is fine, but transcripts are better as the file your university sent, because the grade tables stay lined up that way.

→ uploading degree_certificate.pdf
→ uploading academic_transcript.pdf
✓ 2 files received · 1.6 MB
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Tell us where it is going

A price comes back in half an hour. Say if it is for a university, a board or a visa, because some of them want our membership number printed on the page and others do not.

QUOTE: from £29 · 1 page
DELIVERY: tomorrow 09:00
STATUS: awaiting confirmation
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Upload it or post it on

The stamped copy lands by email in time for most online forms. Boards and colleges that still want paper get a signed set in the post, and that costs you nothing extra.

✓ translation complete
✓ stamped + signed
✓ ready for submission
what the home office asks for

What Must Appear On A Translated Degree For UKVI

Universities and boards are stricter here than most people expect. They want to see who did the work and be able to ring them. Every item below goes on your copy as standard, and you can look up our qualified translators before you send anything.

  • A line saying it is true and full
  • The date the work was signed off
  • The translator's name in full
  • A signature, not a typed name
  • A number an office can ring
  • The body the translator belongs to
  • Company paper with an address
  • Someone who is not you or family
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Degree certificate translation accepted by UK universities and employers

Urgent Degree Translation Before An Enrolment Date Closes

Course start dates, board deadlines and job offers all have a day attached, and none of them wait. We can turn an award around in about four hours when it comes to that. Tell us the date before you pay and you will get a straight answer either way.

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What Academic Certificate Translation For UKVI Will Cost

An award on its own is a small job. A four year transcript with every module listed is not. So we count what is actually on your pages. Each number below is a starting point, and the real one comes back once we have seen the file.

What affects your price Starts from Why it moves up or down
Award or full transcriptthe main one £29/ page One certificate with a name, a course and a date is quick; a grade table running over four years is a much bigger job
Module listsif you add them lower ratewith the award Course descriptions repeat the same wording again and again, so they cost far less when sent with the certificate
Age of the wordingold awards a little moreif archaic Latin awards and older university wording take a translator who has handled them before, which is a smaller pool
Language and scriptwho is free variesby pair Italian, German and Spanish are on our desk daily; Greek, Turkish, Romanian and Arabic take a named specialist
How soon you need itspeed from £0normal slot A standard slot adds nothing; a four hour job before an enrolment date means someone drops what they are doing
Who signs it offlevel from £75if sealed Universities, boards and UKVI take a signed and stamped copy; a seal is only for awards being sent overseas

Get a fixed price for your certificate

Send the award and the transcript together and one figure covers both. That price is held for the whole job, whatever else turns up inside the file.

EXAMPLE QUOTE1 PAGE
Single award, common languagefrom £29
Statement of accuracyFREE
Digital stamped copyFREE
your totalquoted on sight
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200+ languages covered

Languages We Work In For UKVI Degree Certificate Translation

Every country marks work its own way. Germany counts down, so a low number is a good result. Italy runs to a hundred and ten with honours on top. Spain and Greece use ten. Get any of that wrong and your award looks weaker than it is. So a person who studied under that system reads yours, and our Italian to English translation team sees more transcripts than any other.

+ 188 more languages — Russian, Ukrainian, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Swedish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Sinhala…
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Degree Translation Jobs Sent To UK Offices This Year

Three real orders, names shortened. Each one had something in it that a normal translator would have got wrong.

Case 01 — United States

A degree written in Latin

Who they wereDagim H., applying on a talent route
What they neededA one page Latin university award, into English, to have it compared to a UK degree
The problemThe whole certificate was in Latin, and he needed it done that same day
What we didPut it with a translator who reads old award wording and kept the course title as the university words it
How long it tookSame day
What happenedHis award went off for checking without a delay

Case 02 — France

The title had to match his thesis

Who they wereAnder I., moving onto a work visa
What they neededA French doctorate award, into UK English, for a Skilled Worker application
The problemHis research title already had an official English version, and a fresh wording would not have matched his other papers
What we didUsed the wording he supplied so the title reads the same everywhere it appears
How long it tookNext working day
What happenedEverything in his file lined up

Case 03 — Egypt

The name had to match the passport

Who they wereMohamed A., living in the UK
What they neededAn Arabic university award, into UK English, for a UKVI file
The problemArabic names can be written several ways in English, and his had to match his passport exactly
What we didAsked him for the passport spelling first and wrote the whole award around it
How long it tookUnder 24 hours
What happenedOne name, spelled one way, on every page he sent
what our clients say

Graduates On Getting Their Qualifications Read In Britain

These are people who needed a degree from home to count for something here, whether that was a place, a job or a licence to practise.

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1,847 verified reviews
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I needed my Greek diploma looked at so I could apply for jobs here. They knew what the assessors wanted on the page and put it there without me asking.

Kostas P. Comparing an award · Greece
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My masters application needed my exam list and the course pages behind it. Six files, one price, and the university never came back with a question.

Chiara M. Masters place · Italy
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The nursing board wanted my degree in English before they would even open my file. It came back stamped and signed and went through first time.

Angela M. Nursing registration · Leeds
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Mine is a German school certificate from years back and the grading looks odd to British eyes. They left the marks alone, which is exactly what I was told to do.

Daniel W. University entry · Switzerland
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I needed my Romanian degrees done to take an apprenticeship at a UK university. Clear price up front, nothing added on later.

Ioana C. Apprenticeship · Romania
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My site card needed a training certificate in English with a stamp on it. Sent in the afternoon, back the next morning, card sorted that week.

Marie L. Trade card · France
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Degree Certificate Translation For UKVI, Questions Answered

Academic papers throw up their own set of worries. These are the ones people write in with once they are ready to order.

Will you turn my grade into a British one?

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No, and you would not want us to. A translator's job is to say what the paper says, not to decide what it is worth here. Saying a mark equals a 2:1 is a judgement, and that belongs to the office that compares qualifications. Your grade goes across exactly as your university wrote it.

Do you do the transcript and the module list too?

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Yes, and they cost less when they come with the award. Module pages repeat the same phrases over and over, so once the first few are done the rest move quickly. Send everything you have been asked for and one price covers the lot.

My certificate is in Latin. Can you still do it?

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Yes. Older universities in Ireland, the United States and parts of Europe still hand out awards in Latin, and we have people who read it. The course title keeps the form your university uses, so it matches anything else you send in.

My university has closed or changed its name. Does that matter?

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Not at all. We write the name that is printed on your certificate, because that is the name that was true on the day you graduated. Changing it to whatever the place is called now would make your paper harder to check, not easier.

There is a code on my certificate for checking it online. Does that go in?

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It does, and it is worth having. Universities in Italy, Spain and Greece now print a code or a link so an office can look the award up. We carry that straight across, so whoever reads your copy can check it against the original themselves.

Will an assessor ring you to check the translation?

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Sometimes, and it is a good sign when they do. That is why the translator's name, the body they belong to and a working number sit on the last page. We answer those calls the same day, so nothing sits in a queue because of us.

My board asked for a notarised copy. Is that different?

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Yes, and only a few of them ask. It means a notary signs to confirm who the translator is, which is a separate step with its own fee. Send us the exact wording your board used and we will tell you plainly whether you need it or not.

My course was taught in English. Do I still need the certificate done?

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Usually yes, because the certificate itself is normally printed in the country's own language even when the teaching was not. If part of your paper is already in English we charge only for the rest, so it works out cheaper than a full page.
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Send the award and the marks that go with it, take the price that comes back, and collect a signed, stamped English copy for your university, your board or UKVI.

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