Portuguese speakers in Co. Longford include many Brazilian families, along with people from Portugal and Angola, living in Longford town, Ballymahon and elsewhere in the county. When a certidão, CNH or diploma needs to be read by an Irish body in Longford, we translate it into certified English for €29.95 per page. Longford clients with up to three pages usually receive the translation within 24 hours.
Census 2022 recorded 375 Portuguese speakers at home in Co. Longford, a county-wide count.
Nationally, the number of people speaking Portuguese at home more than doubled between Census 2016 and Census 2022, and many of them are Brazilian. In Longford, their documents typically include apostilled certidões for marriages and births, CNH licences for insurance, and training certificates for hospitality and care jobs. Portuguese citizens have simpler EU paperwork, which may come with a multilingual form.
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A Brazilian spouse of an EU citizen living in Longford applies under EU Treaty Rights with an English version of the certidão de casamento. We translate it with its apostille, ready for the application.
Brazilian parents enrolling a child in a Longford primary school may be asked for a birth certificate and last school report. We translate the certidão and the boletim escolar together.
Portuguese speakers applying for care roles at St Joseph's Care Centre or local nursing homes may need their training certificates and Certidão de Antecedentes Criminais translated into English.
Graduates planning a master's at an Irish university translate their Diploma de Graduação and histórico escolar. We keep course titles, credit hours and grades exactly as issued.
Carteira de Trabalho e Previdência Social (CTPS)
Brazilians applying for hospitality roles at Longford Forest often prove experience with their work card. Newer records sit in the digital Carteira de Trabalho app, which exports a PDF listing employers, start dates and job titles.
Registro Geral (RG)
Some Longford employers or banks ask to see a second identity document beyond the passport. The Brazilian RG shows the holder's parents' names and place of birth, details that often help link other Brazilian records together.
Escritura pública de divórcio
Brazilians can divorce by agreement at a cartório through a public deed. A partner giving notice to a Longford registrar may need this deed, often with the annotated marriage certificate, and an apostille from Brazil.
For a wedding in Longford, a Brazilian divorce is usually best shown by the marriage certificate with the divorce annotation, the averbação, plus the deed itself. Ask the cartório for both, with apostilles from Brazil. We then translate them with their apostilles in one order, so the registrar in Longford sees consistent names on every page.
€29.95 per page (300 source words) for certified Portuguese translation, with free delivery by email. Add a hard copy by tracked post (€14.95) or an apostille for use abroad (from €149.95) at checkout. See all services.
