A Chinese record is short on the page and heavy on meaning. A hukou page, a 出生医学证明 birth certificate, a marriage booklet, a bank statement with a red chop in the corner, a 学位证书 degree and its 成绩单. None of it counts here until it is in English, signed and stamped by someone UKVI can reach.
Students make up most of this desk, and their parents are usually the ones paying and worrying. Workers, married couples and visitors send papers too. Records arrive from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau, and the same copy is later read by universities, banks and ECCTIS.
Below is where Chinese to English translation gets used, route by route. Most people on this page are students or the parents paying for them, so start with the study routes and work down.
Degrees, transcripts and proof of funds, read by the university and UKVI together.
Statements and deposit slips showing the funds sat still for the full run of days.
Degrees, employer letters and contracts behind a job offer in Britain.
A marriage booklet, sent in to prove who you are joining and when it began.
A birth certificate and the hukou page that shows how the family is linked.
Long stay bundles where every Chinese paper has to line up with the last one.
Nationality files asking for your full history, checked against older records.
Awards sent to ECCTIS so a British employer can see what your study is worth.
Source of funds checks, where a solicitor traces money coming from China.
Whatever the character set, whatever the seal, if a UK office has to read it we handle it. Getting Chinese paperwork translated into English means the whole page, not the main box only — the red chop, the notary cover, and the small print down the side. Every copy comes back stamped, signed and ready to submit.
Our Chinese document translation service runs entirely on your phone. Photograph, confirm, download. Nothing is posted to us and you never visit an office. Send your passport page too, so your English name is spelled the way the Home Office already holds it.
Booklets matter here. A hukou or a notarial certificate is several pages, and all of them count, including the cover and any page that looks blank. Leaving pages out is the quickest way to be asked for more evidence.
We send a fixed price in 30 minutes and ask one question: which pinyin spelling is on your passport. That single answer decides how every name on every page is written. Then work begins.
Your English copy arrives signed, stamped and carrying the statement of accuracy the Home Office looks for. Characters stay visible beside the English. Printed sets go out by post whenever a counter wants paper.
Everything rests on the closing page of your English copy. A caseworker checks eight things there, then moves on. Every Chinese certified translation we hand over carries all eight without you asking.
Term starts on the twentieth, the CAS is waiting, and your degree is still in Chinese. This is the busiest week of our year, every year. Single sheets come back in about four hours. Send it and tell us the deadline.
A birth certificate is one short sheet. A notarial booklet with seal pages is a different job entirely. Six things set the price of your Chinese document translation, and each figure shows where that part begins.
| What affects your price | Starts from | Why it moves up or down |
|---|---|---|
| Length of the recordstart here | £29/ page | A short certificate is quick. A notarial booklet or a transcript listing every module takes far longer. |
| Red chops on the pagehow many | a little moreif many | Every seal is written out where it sits. Six chops on one page is six times the reading of a page with one. |
| Simplified or traditionalwhich system | variesby script | Mainland records use simplified characters. Hong Kong and Taiwan use traditional, with different legal wording too. |
| Degree plus transcriptsent together | lower rateper extra | Awards and marks sheets share much of the same wording, so the second document always costs less than the first. |
| How soon you need itspeed | from £0normal slot | A normal slot adds nothing. Four hours before enrolment closes means somebody drops other work for yours. |
| Where it goes nextUK or China | from £75if sealed | Universities and UKVI take a signed and stamped copy. Papers going back to China follow a notarial route. |
Send the page and one firm figure comes back inside the hour, held to the end of the job. Sending a degree and a transcript together? The lower rate is worked in before you see the price.
Three real orders from this year, names shortened. In each one a small detail turned out to matter more than the client expected.
Mostly students and the parents behind them, plus a few workers and couples. Here is what they said once the English copy arrived.
My degree spelled my name one way and my passport another. They matched it to the passport and explained the difference in a note.
Every page of my statements had a stamp on it. They wrote out what each one said instead of skipping them.
Two currencies on the same page and they left both alone rather than picking a rate. The finance office had no questions.
My Hong Kong papers use traditional characters and most places quoted me extra for that. Here it was the same price.
The notarial booklet had a seal page, a translation page and the original. They handled the whole thing as one job.
My parents were sending the money and everything had to be traced. One bundle, one price, sorted in two days.
These come in days before a deadline, from people holding their own documents. Not the basics. The points that decide whether your file is accepted, and they apply across all our certified translation services for UK visas.
Upload the page, take the price that comes back within the hour, and collect a signed, stamped English copy for UKVI, your university, ECCTIS or a bank.
Call in, email, or send a photo straight to WhatsApp. Replies come within minutes in working hours, and your Chinese pages reach a translator as soon as they arrive.