Certified written document translation

Certified Catalan Document Translation Services

Corpus provides certified Catalan-to-English written-document translation with a signed Certificate of Accuracy. Eligible clear standard pages start at $19.99 per page, with standard 24-hour delivery after scope confirmation.

Primary CTA:

For a clear, complete standard file with a known page count. Choose Other and specify Catalan.

Secondary CTA:

For mixed Catalan, Spanish, or French text, handwriting, historical or parish records, dense tables or seals, damaged scans, an uncertain page count, or recipient-specific instructions. Select Catalan.

Eligible clear standard pages start at $19.99/page with standard 24-hour delivery after scope confirmation. Mixed-language, handwritten, historical, dense, damaged, or unclear files are quoted first. Corpus provides digital certified written translation only. See pricing and the language directory.

How are Catalonia civil-registry records translated?

The exact certificate type, registry office, locality, names, dates, marginal notes, seals, signatures, and verification details are preserved.

Catalonia civil records may include a certificat literal de naixement, certificat de matrimoni, certificat de defunció, or fe de vida i estat. A literal certificate can contain fuller registry-entry detail than an extract or multilingual aid. The translation keeps the printed distinction among literal, extracte, plurilingüe, and digital formats.

Upload every page and side, including marginal annotations and electronic verification codes. An event date, registration date, issue date, annotation date, and digital-signature timestamp are separate facts and stay separate.

Corpus translates the record supplied; it does not obtain, legalize, apostille, or validate a certificate. The recipient decides which version and issue date it requires. See our guides for birth certificates and marriage certificates.

What is different about Catalan records from Andorra?

Andorran records retain their own Civil Registry titles and authority wording rather than being normalized to a Spanish registry.

U.S. reciprocity guidance identifies the Certificat de Naixement and Certificat de Defunció as Civil Registry records of the Govern d’Andorra. A birth record may show date and place, sex, parents, seal, and signature details. Andorran marriage records can use authority terms that differ from Catalonia or Spain. The translation preserves what is printed.

For births registered before 1997, current reciprocity guidance notes that the record may come from the relevant church and distinguishes it from a baptismal certificate. Older parish material can contain handwriting, abbreviations, obsolete spelling, faded ink, damaged bindings, or bleed-through. Translation cannot change one record into another. Historic, church, bound, or mixed-language records should go through quote review.

What if a record mixes Catalan, Spanish, French, or Valencian?

Every material language, source label, and relevant page or side must be inventoried before translation scope is confirmed.

Catalonia records are sometimes bilingual in Catalan and Spanish. Andorran packets can contain Catalan, French, or Spanish. English headings do not eliminate Catalan-only seals, footers, annotations, reverse-side instructions, or handwritten notes. Corpus does not add English-to-English filler, but the whole file must be reviewed before scope is set.

Valencian, or valencià, belongs to this Catalan service owner for ordering and search. The translation still preserves the source's own language label, regional terminology, names, and administrative wording. It does not erase lexical or institutional differences. Material Spanish or French content is identified honestly and routes to quote review rather than being silently treated as Catalan.

How are Catalan spelling, names, and identifiers protected?

Human review protects Catalan characters, printed name order, dates, and document identifiers that OCR can damage or merge.

Catalan uses the Latin script, but accurate transcription requires open and acute accents (à, è, é, í, ò, ó, ú), diaeresis (ï, ü), cedilla ç, apostrophes, hyphens, the digraph ny, and the middle dot in l·l. OCR may drop accents, read ç as c, turn l·l into ll, l.l, or punctuation, split apostrophized words, and confuse rn/m, cl/d, O/0, or I/l/1. Faint text is marked [ILLEGIBLE] rather than guessed.

Identity and civil records may show two forenames and two surnames. Every printed component and its order is kept. Corpus does not casually drop or hyphenate a surname or add or remove a linking i, particle, apostrophe, accent, or compound-name mark.

A passport or prior recipient-facing record can guide consistent English spelling for the same person, but it cannot override source dates, numbers, relationships, or another person’s identity. DNI, NIE, TIE, registry, court, file, and verification numbers are transcribed exactly, not authenticated.

Which identity, court, criminal, and historical records need care?

Exact record titles and issuing authorities matter because identity, criminal-history, police, and court records are not interchangeable.

Spain-issued DNI, NIE, or TIE documents may accompany Catalan civil or administrative files. Corpus translates visible fields but does not validate a chip, machine-readable zone, security feature, identity, nationality, residence status, or validity. See passport and identity document translation.

Current U.S. Spain reciprocity guidance distinguishes a Certificado de Antecedentes Penales from a separate police-encounter certificate and notes that court records may also be expected after a conviction. The translation keeps the exact record title and authority; it does not relabel every item as a generic police clearance. Review our criminal-record translation page.

Divorce evidence may be a judgment, a certified court copy, or a marginal annotation on a civil certificate. Court, proceeding number, parties, operative text, finality wording, stamps, annotations, and page sequence remain visible without a legal interpretation. Our divorce decree translation guide explains the document workflow.

How should I submit academic, employment, financial, or scanned records?

Send straight, uncropped, well-lit color images of every page and side so text, tables, stamps, and identifiers remain readable.

Catalan diplomas, transcripts, enrollment records, employment certificates, empadronament, tax records, bank records, and professional documents may contain institution names, regional departments, abbreviations, grade tables, seals, signatures, and bilingual labels. Corpus preserves exact titles and layout relationships. It does not convert grades, evaluate credentials, verify residence or employment, or decide equivalency. See our diploma, academic transcript, and bank statement pages.

Include covers, bindings, marginal notes, stamped backs, photographs, verification codes, machine-readable zones, digital signatures, and handwriting. Check especially for lost diacritics, ç, l·l, apostrophes, ny, surname boundaries, DNI/NIE/TIE identifiers, faint stamps, and mixed-language footers. Missing sides, cropped seals, handwriting, historic material, damaged bindings, dense tables, or unclear page counts need a quote.

What should I check for USCIS, NVC, or another recipient?

Follow the receiving organization’s current instructions because translation does not replace the required record type, version, copy, or filing rule.

For USCIS, foreign-language evidence generally requires a complete English translation certified as complete and accurate, with certification that the translator is competent. Review current form instructions and our USCIS translation services page. Corpus does not claim government approval or promise acceptance or any case outcome.

For NVC or consular processing, country reciprocity and post instructions control expected records. A translation cannot cure a wrong record, missing annotation, incomplete page set, or outdated version. Courts, DMVs, universities, evaluators, licensing boards, employers, and other recipients set their own copy, certification, recency, and format rules. Confirm unclear instructions with the recipient before purchase.

Should I start an order or request a quote?

Start an order for a clear standard file with known scope; request a quote for mixed languages, difficult source material, or special instructions.

Use Start Your Order when the Catalan file is complete, readable, standard, and has a known page count. The direct-order language list does not name Catalan, so choose Other and specify Catalan. Eligible clear standard pages start at $19.99 per page, and standard 24-hour delivery applies after scope confirmation.

Use Get a Quote and select named Catalan for Catalan/Spanish/French content, handwriting, parish or historic records, damaged scans, dense layouts, booklets, unclear page counts, or recipient-specific requirements. Share any recipient deadline during quote review. Corpus does not provide notarization, apostille service, hard copies, interpretation, procurement, authentication, credential evaluation, or legal advice.

Frequently asked questions

What does certified Catalan document translation cost?

Eligible clear, standard Catalan documents start at $19.99 per page. Mixed-language, handwritten, historical, dense, damaged, unclear, or recipient-specific files need quote review before price and timing are confirmed.

Which Catalan documents can you translate?

We translate readable Catalan civil certificates, identity and court records, criminal-history documents, diplomas, transcripts, employment and financial records, and other written documents from Catalonia, Andorra, and other Catalan-speaking contexts.

What if my document contains both Catalan and Spanish or French?

Upload every page and side so we can identify all material languages. Mixed Catalan, Spanish, French, or English content usually needs quote review because seals, notes, annotations, and reverse-side text may not match the main headings.

Do you handle documents labeled Valencian?

Yes. Valencian is handled within this Catalan page owner while the translation preserves the source's own language label, regional terminology, names, and administrative wording. Mixed or unusual records should be quoted first.

How are Catalan names and special characters handled?

We preserve printed forenames, both surnames, their order, accents, ç, apostrophes, hyphens, ï or ü, ny, and the middle dot in l·l as shown in the source, using an unreadable marker rather than guessing unclear text.

Can I upload a photo or scan of my Catalan document?

Yes. Send a straight, uncropped, well-lit color image of every page and side, including marginal notes, faint seals, signatures, verification codes, identifiers, digital-signature details, and handwritten text.

When does standard 24-hour delivery apply?

Standard 24-hour delivery applies to eligible clear, complete, standard files after scope confirmation. Mixed-language, handwritten, historical, damaged, dense, bound, or multi-document packets may require more time.

Should I start an order or request a quote?

Start an order for a clear, complete, standard Catalan file with a known page count, choosing Other and specifying Catalan. Request a quote for mixed languages, older records, handwriting, damaged scans, dense tables, unclear page count, or recipient-specific instructions.

Catalan to English certified translation

Catalan to English certified translation is a complete English rendering of civil records such as birth, marriage, police, and academic documents plus the translator’s signed certification that the translation is complete and accurate and that the translator is competent to translate from Catalan into English. That pairing is what 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) requires. Corpus Localization prepares that certified packet for USCIS purposes at $19.99/page for eligible standard documents, as an ATA corporate member (#M-189351).

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