Do you need a Sworn Translation of your Family Record Book?
The Sworn Translation of Family Record Books is essential for marriages, divorces and births in which one of the parents is a foreign national of a country where the official language is not Spanish.
Official Sworn Translation
An Official Sworn Translation is a special translation that can only be carried out by an official Sworn Translator authorised by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who will stamp the translation making it 100% valid throughout Spain.
The Family Record Book
The Family Record Book recognises and accredits the family relationship between a couple or between parents and their children. It is provided free of charge at the Civil Registry upon getting married or recording the name of a child if the parents are not married.
The Family Record Book is required for a multitude of procedures:
- Marriages, Separations and Divorces
- Wills and Inheritances
- Obtaining of National Identification or a minor’s passport
- Maternity leave, registration of children on a Social Security card or registration of residency
- Application for a place in a nursery school or in a public/charter school
- Unemployment benefit claim
- Large Family supplement
Do I need a Sworn Translation of my Family Record Book?
You will require a Sworn Translation of a Family Record Book if you need to carry out any form of official procedure in Spain, and your Family Record Book is written in a language other than Spanish.
It will also be required if the Family Record Book is written in Spanish and needs to be presented in a foreign non-Spanish speaking country, for example in China or Russia.
In any event, always communicate with the body or administration that requests the Articles to establish if a Sworn Translation of these documents is essential.
Minimum prices for a sworn translation of a document:
- English Sworn Translation document minimum: €30
- French Sworn Translation document minimum: €35
- German Sworn Translation document minimum: €45
- Italian Sworn Translation document minimum: €50
- Portuguese Sworn Translation document minimum: €50
- Russian Sworn Translation document minimum: €50
- Ukrainian Sworn Translation document minimum: €65
- Arabic Sworn Translation document minimum: €65
- Chinese Sworn Translation document minimum: €60
- Japanese Sworn Translation document minimum: €65
- Swedish Sworn Translation document minimum: €65
- Norwegian Sworn Translation document minimum: €65
- Bulgarian Sworn Translation document minimum: €65
- Hebrew Sworn Translation document minimum: €65
- Danish Sworn Translation document minimum: €45
- Polish Sworn Translation document minimum: €55
- Romanian Sworn Translation document minimum: €65
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