Official translation of the documents needed

lucent · Post by **lucent** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:22 pm

By any chance does any of you know of a company in Helsinki where they can provide official translations from Russian into German (not Russian-Finnish-Finnish-German)? I need to have some documents translated and notarized, and probably apostille will be needed as well.

**Sponsor:**

FinnGuyHelsinki · Post by **FinnGuyHelsinki** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 9:44 am

I don't know of such a service, but what exactly do you mean by 'official'? Can anyone else other than the maker of the original document vouch for a translation being accurate? Surely the notary cannot take any responsibility of the content or the accuracy of the translation. Making official copies of originals I can understand, but (effectively) having the content changed in the process, it's a different thing altogether.

lucent · Post by **lucent** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:41 am

I mean the place where they make copies, translate and notarize the documents. Otherwise, I would have translated everything myself

If I translate these and then come to an office and request to notarize, no one will agree to do that.

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:52 am

FinnGuyHelsinki wrote:I don't know of such a service, but what exactly do you mean by 'official'? Can anyone else other than the maker of the original document vouch for a translation being accurate? Surely the notary cannot take any responsibility of the content or the accuracy of the translation. Making official copies of originals I can understand, but (effectively) having the content changed in the process, it's a different thing altogether.

There is in Finland a profession of "authorized translator" that has passed the tests and like a doctor has a stamp to put under their translation.

Ref · Post by **Ref** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:52 am

lucent wrote:By any chance does any of you know of a company in Helsinki where they can provide official translations from Russian into German (not Russian-Finnish-Finnish-German)? I need to have some documents translated and notarized, and probably apostille will be needed as well.

here's a list of official translators
http://www.lexitec.fi/translators.html

Upphew · Post by **Upphew** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:55 am

lucent wrote:By any chance does any of you know of a company in Helsinki where they can provide official translations from Russian into German (not Russian-Finnish-Finnish-German)? I need to have some documents translated and notarized, and probably apostille will be needed as well.

According to this company you can not get official translations directly form foreign to foreign in Finland. Something about Hague Convention...

lucent · Post by **lucent** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:59 am

Thanks a lot!

AldenG · Post by **AldenG** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 5:05 pm

Will you go with Russian -> Finnish -> German, then?

Or will you find a company in Germany that can do Russian -> German?

By the way, since Swedish is an official language of Finland, it would seem to me that you should be able to get Russian -> Swedish -> German, which seems like it would be less likely to introduce noise.

lucent · Post by **lucent** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:47 pm

Russian -> German
Sent the docs to my friend in St. Pet., she took them to the local agency. This turned out to be quicker and less expensive

Finland Forum

Find information about moving to, living in and life in Finland