Spanish is heard all over Dublin, from Spanish engineers in the Docklands to Latin American students on English courses and Mexican or Colombian partners of Irish citizens. We translate certificaciones literales, actas de nacimiento, títulos and sentencias from Spain and every Spanish-speaking country into certified English, apostille included, for €29.95 per page. Most orders of one to three pages reach you by email within 24 hours.
In the four Dublin council areas combined, 24,417 people speak Spanish at home (Census 2022).
Dublin's Spanish speakers fall into two broad groups with different paperwork. Spaniards are EU citizens whose Registro Civil certificates can arrive with a multilingual form, while Mexicans, Colombians, Argentinians, Venezuelans and others hold non-EU actas that need a full translation and often an apostille. Typical Dublin uses include Teaching Council files for Spanish teachers, NMBI registration, EU Treaty Rights for Latin American spouses and postgraduate study at UCD or Trinity.
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A Colombian or Venezuelan partner of a Spanish citizen living in Dublin applies to ISD for EU Treaty Rights residence with their acta de matrimonio, often apostilled where it was issued. We translate the acta and its apostille together so the file reads as one.
Teachers from Spain registering with the Teaching Council to work in Dublin post-primary schools send a certificación académica personal listing every asignatura. We reproduce each module and ECTS value so the subject check can be completed.
Spanish nurses taking posts at the Mater, St Vincent's or Beaumont apply first to NMBI with the título de Graduado en Enfermería and a certificate from their Colegio Oficial. We translate the whole set with our full contact details on every page.
Guardianship and maintenance applications at Dolphin House can involve a Spanish sentencia or a Mexican divorce record. Court rules ask for a translator's affidavit with foreign papers, so ask your solicitor how it should be sworn alongside the translation.
Título de Grado / Licenciatura
Spanish and Latin American graduates hired by tech and finance firms in the Docklands are often asked how their degree compares with Irish levels. We translate the título and, for Spanish degrees, the Suplemento Europeo al Título, so QQI NARIC can place the qualification.
Certificado de fe de vida y estado
Spanish citizens marrying in Dublin can ask their Registro Civil for a fe de vida y estado confirming they are single. Joyce House may want it with the birth record, and Latin American equivalents such as a constancia de soltería get the same careful translation.
Certificado de colegiación
Spanish and Latin American doctors joining St James's or the Mater send the Medical Council their Colegio de Médicos certificate with the degree. We translate both with an official stamp, while the notarised copies the Council asks for are a separate step.
Latin American papers going to Dublin bodies are non-EU documents, so a Colombian or Venezuelan registro civil may need to be apostilled in its home country before you use it at ISD or Joyce House. Get the apostille first, then send us the whole document; the certificate and its apostille are then translated as one job, so the file you hand in is complete.
€29.95 per page (300 source words) for certified Spanish 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.
