Dundalk's Portuguese speakers are mostly Brazilian, alongside a smaller group from Portugal, and many came to study or work in recent years. We translate certidões, diplomas and the CNH into certified English for DkIT, employers, insurers and Irish registrars. Order online from Dundalk at €29.95 per page and receive the signed PDF by email, in most cases within 24 hours.
Co. Louth had 727 Portuguese speakers at home at Census 2022; Dundalk is included in that county number but not counted separately.
Brazilian students and workers in Dundalk bring documents from a non-EU system, so the translation is only one step: some Irish offices also want an apostille from Brazil. Portuguese citizens have EU forms that can sometimes replace a translation. From Dundalk we mostly translate histórico escolar records for DkIT, certidões de nascimento and casamento for family matters, and employment references for local jobs.
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Students from Brazil applying for DkIT master's programmes send the Diploma de Graduação and histórico escolar. We translate the course name, workload hours and grades on the Brazilian 0 to 10 scale exactly.
A Brazilian marriage certificate may support a joint mortgage, a change of status with Revenue or a citizenship application from Dundalk. We translate the certidão in full, including any averbação of name change.
When an estate handled at the Dundalk probate registry includes a Brazilian testamento or inventory, we translate the documents in full. The registry expects an affidavit of translator, so your solicitor can explain how it should be sworn.
Brazilian care assistants in Dundalk may be asked for a Certidão de Antecedentes Criminais from the federal or state police. We translate it within a day, keeping the verification code visible.
Certificado de Conclusão do Ensino Médio
Brazilian students applying to DkIT send proof that they finished secondary school along with the full histórico escolar. We translate subjects, yearly grades and any INEP school code, which helps admissions confirm the school is officially registered.
Escritura de habilitação de herdeiros
Where a Portuguese estate includes money in an Irish bank, the Dundalk registry or the bank may want to see who the heirs are. The habilitação de herdeiros names them formally, and we translate it with the notary's details; ask your solicitor about the affidavit.
Certidão de Antecedentes Criminais (Polícia Civil)
Health and social care workers joining Louth County Hospital may be asked for Brazilian police certificates alongside Garda vetting. Some employers want the state-level certificate from the civil police where you lived as well as the federal one, and we translate both in one order.
Brazilians in Dundalk sometimes hold documents from both Brazil and Portugal, especially with Portuguese nationality through a parent. Portuguese certificates are EU documents and may come with a multilingual standard form, while Brazilian ones usually need Brazil's apostille first, which we then translate with them. Send both sets in one order if the same Irish body needs them.
€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.
