Official translations

The official translations are produced by certified translators who are members of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (IOL) or the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI) and work in partnership with the Greek Consulate in London. This means that our translations will be accepted and legalised by the Greek Consulate in London.

Please note that we can translate only from the originals or certified copies (by a solicitor) for legal reasons.

If your document is in English, issued in the UK, before you send it to us for translation, you need to take it (or post it) to the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office (in Milton Keynes) for authentication (in other words, to have an Apostille Seal affixed). Once your document(s) have the Apostille seal, you can post them to:

Elina Lagoudaki, MCIL
32A Hereford Road
Notting Hill
London W2 5AJ

The translation normally takes 1-2 days. For urgent translations, please give us a call on 07887686627. The cost of translation is 40 GBP per document (1 page). If your document has many pages or if you have 4 or more documents, please give us a call or e-mail us and ask for a quotation.

Please do not forget to include your details (name, address, telephone number, e-mail) in the envelope that you send us. A SAE would be a good idea, but it is not necessary. We send back the translations by First Class Royal Mail. If you wish to receive them by registered post, please let us know and we will do so at an extra cost of 5 GBP.

Once we send you back the translation along with the original document, you then need to take it (or send it) to the Greek Consulate, if you require authentication of the translation for official use. For information on this procedure and the cost of the legalisation, please visit the Greek Consulate's website.

If your document is in Greek, it is enough to send us the original or a certified photocopy (plain photocopies are not accepted). The produced translation will be official, but in order to find out whether it has to be legalised as well, you need to ask the authority to which you are going to submit the document. Some British authorities do not ask for a legalised translation (they accept a translation from a certified translator), some others do ask. In the latter case, you need to take it (or send it) to the Greek Consulate for legalisation.

Types of official documents

We translate from English to Greek and vice versa all types of official document such as: