German ⇄ English questions about certification.

You upload your document or describe the project briefly. We review volume, field, deadline and – where needed – the required certification, and name a fixed price. Once you approve it, a suitable specialist translates; you receive the result in advance as a PDF. On working days you usually get a reply within 60 minutes.

Tell us which authority, court or registry office the translation is for — in the quote form or your message — and we match the certification format to it. If we get that match wrong and the certification is rejected for that reason, the correction is free, we cover return postage in both directions, and we redispatch within 3 working days with the new dispatch date and tracking number. Acceptance of a translation is decided by the receiving authority, not by termbase; recognition abroad happens regularly, not automatically in every case, and termbase does not issue apostilles.

Manageable documents are often ready within a few working days; by 24-hour express faster where feasible. For large volumes we coordinate teams and keep terminology consistent through translation memories. Certified originals go out by tracked post, so you always have a dispatch date and tracking number to follow.

Yes. For urgent orders there is an express translation; feasibility depends on language, volume and field and is confirmed bindingly in advance.

Through the encrypted form on the relevant service page. A clearly legible scan or a PDF is usually enough; sensitive content is treated confidentially and only for the agreed purpose.

A certified translation is produced by a court-authorised (sworn) translator who confirms its accuracy and completeness with a stamp, signature and certification note. Authorities, public offices and courts require it for foreign-language documents.

For written translations the correct term is court-authorised translator (in German, ermächtigter Übersetzer; under state law also “sworn” or “publicly appointed”). “Sworn” in the strict sense refers above all to interpreters, who render spoken language in court. We provide the qualification that matches your case.

Yes. A translator authorised by a German court may issue certified translations that are recognised under Section 142 (3) ZPO before all authorities and courts nationwide – regardless of the federal state in which the authorisation was granted.

For the translation itself a clearly legible scan is usually sufficient. Whether the certification should refer to the original, a certified copy or a scan depends on the requesting body – we note the reference accordingly.

The apostille confirms the authenticity of a public document for use in states party to the Hague Convention. Whether your target authority requires it is something we clarify in advance.

No. The apostille is issued by the competent authority or court in the country of origin – not by the translation agency. We advise which body is responsible for your type of document and in which order apostille and translation make sense.

Yes. The termbase is DIN EN ISO 17100 certified (DIN CERTCO, Reg. 7U517). Professional translations are produced by qualified, native-speaker translators, on request under the four-eyes principle.

Assigned specialists are bound to secrecy; data is processed only for the agreed purpose in line with the GDPR. On request we sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA); every order stays in the hands of qualified specialist translators.

German ⇄ English and more than 70 fields – from law and technology to medicine and academia. An overview is given on our Certified German ⇄ English translation and fields pages.

Yes. For appointments at court, a notary, an authority or at conferences we arrange suitable interpreters – consecutive or simultaneous, on site or by video.