Brazilians make up much of Galway City's Portuguese-speaking community, joined by families from Portugal, Angola and Mozambique. Students at ATU and the city's English-language schools, healthcare staff at UHG and workers across the city need their records in English. We translate each certidão de nascimento, certidão de casamento, diploma de graduação and CNH into certified English at €29.95 per page, usually within 24 hours for short orders.
Census 2022 recorded 989 people in Galway City who speak Portuguese at home, counted within the city council area rather than the county.
Many Brazilians first came to Galway to study English and stayed on in hospitality, healthcare and technology, while Portuguese nationals often work in research and engineering. Brazilian paperwork usually needs extra steps: a recent certidão de inteiro teor, an apostille from a Brazilian cartório for some Irish uses, and careful handling of two or three surnames. Portuguese civil records, by contrast, can sometimes rely on an EU multilingual form.
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Nurses trained in Brazil who join Merlin Park or University Hospital Galway begin with NMBI registration. We translate the diploma, the histórico escolar with clinical hours and the COREN registration certificate, each stamped with our contact details.
A Brazilian partner marrying in Galway brings a recent certidão de nascimento to the Shantalla office, normally apostilled in Brazil. We translate the certificate and the apostille, so the registrar has the whole record in English.
Brazilian drivers in Galway often need their CNH in English for car hire or an insurance quote. We translate the licence categories, dates and any restrictions exactly as they appear on the card.
Portuguese and Brazilian students applying to ATU on the Dublin Road translate their secondary or higher education certificates and transcripts. We keep the grading scale beside each mark so the admissions team can compare results.
Diploma de Bacharel em Fisioterapia
Brazilian physiotherapists hoping to work in Galway apply to CORU with the diploma, the full curriculum and their CREFITO registration. We translate the estágio hours and module content exactly, because CORU compares training against Irish standards.
Diploma de Bacharel em Medicina
Brazilian doctors applying for training posts at University Hospital Galway register with the Medical Council first. We translate the medical diploma, the internato record and a certidão from the regional CRM, each officially stamped with our name and address.
Certidão de Óbito
When a Brazilian or Portuguese relative dies and there are Irish assets or a pension involved, a Galway solicitor or bank will want the certidão de óbito in English. We translate the cause of death, the declarant and any averbação recording a later correction.
Brazilian health professionals moving to Galway can save weeks by ordering digital certidões and a CRM or CREFITO certificate at the same time, since registration bodies want the whole set together. Because these are non-EU documents, confirm whether the Irish body needs each one apostilled by a Brazilian cartório, and get it before sending us scans.
€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.
