A translation bureau in Abasha - TARGMANEBI's service for a municipality where labour migration has gone beyond Europe's borders. Israel, Cyprus and the Gulf states take Georgian workers on a different scheme from Europe's - through a contract with an employment agency and with a specific employer, on a work visa tied to that employer, and on terms people often discover only after signing. So this page is about the documents needed before the job, during it and after it - and above all about one: the contract that should be translated before signature.
Alongside that flow, Abasha is an ordinary Mingrelian municipality: hazelnut farmers, families with members in Europe, students in Kutaisi, pensioners with Soviet record books. Tbilisi is four hours from Abasha, Kutaisi one and Kutaisi International Airport at Kopitnari about half an hour; the courier comes to Abasha weekly, and a visa package often has to be ready before the flight.
Before signing - the agency and employer contracts
Employment in Israel, Cyprus and the Gulf starts with two contracts - one with a Georgian or foreign agency and one with the employer - and both contain the clauses that later become the problem. An information translation before signing reveals most of them:
What we check in the agency contract
- The agency fee - who pays it, how much and when
- What happens if the job falls through or the terms differ
- Obligations about return, penalties and "debt"
- Who is responsible for the visa, the ticket and the accommodation
- Where and in what language a dispute would be heard
What we check in the employer contract
- Wage, overtime, rest days and hours
- Conditions on holding the passport, accommodation and food
- Medical insurance and pay during illness
- Termination conditions on both sides
- Whether the visa is tied to the employer and whether transfer is possible
The visa package
- Criminal record certificate and medical certificate with an apostille
- Diploma or vocational certificate - for a carer, spa specialist or builder
- Certificates of experience and references
- Birth and marriage certificates, certificate of family status
- The signed contract and the employer's invitation
An information translation before signing needs no certification, is prepared quickly and cheaply, and is often the only moment when a person reads the contract in full. If the contract is in Hebrew, call us first - we confirm availability and timing after seeing the document; most Israeli agencies' contracts also have an English or Russian version. Arabic-language contracts go to a legal translator working in that direction.
During the job - a problem, a dispute, the consulate
When conditions abroad do not match the contract, wages go unpaid or a passport is being held, someone from Abasha has three addresses: the Georgian consulate, the local labour authority and, sometimes, a court - and all three want documents. We translate the contract and the correspondence with the employer for the consulate or the authority, the complaint to the labour inspectorate in the local language, medical certificates where health is involved, payslips and bank statements to calculate what is owed, and the court's or authority's decision into Georgian - plus, for the family in Abasha, a power of attorney if someone is conducting the case from Georgia. In such cases the documents arrive from abroad as photos and go back as files; paper is rarely needed.
One point people often miss: employers in Israel and the Gulf frequently draw the contract so that the work visa is tied to that specific employer and changing it is a separate procedure. We set that clause out separately in the translation, because it is exactly what decides how free you are if a problem arises - and it is something to know before signing, not in the Emirates.
Carer, hotel staff, builder - qualifications
A carer's visa for Israel or Cyprus often requires medical or social education or a course, Gulf hotels want a hospitality, spa or culinary certificate, and construction companies a vocational diploma and a safety certificate. These documents are translated into the employer's language with an apostille and notarization, and the trade and its level are carried across in the receiving country's terminology. In the other direction, on returning, an Israeli carer's or an Emirates hotel's certificate of experience is translated into Georgian or English - for the next employer, often already in Europe.
Abasha families
One household in Abasha often combines three directions at once: the mother a carer in Israel, the father a builder in the Emirates, the child applying to a university in Kutaisi or Europe - and each has its own document language. A grandmother's Soviet record book and a hazelnut farm's contract with a European buyer are added to that. All of a family's papers are handled from one transliteration - the surname on an Israeli visa and on a German school certificate has to be written in the same Latin letters - and come back to Abasha on one courier run.
Languages in orders from Abasha
Because of the Israel and Gulf directions, English and Arabic are more frequent in Abasha than in other municipalities - agency and employer contracts are mostly in those two languages. Russian appears in Israeli agencies' versions and older papers, Greek with Cypriot authorities. On the European family side, Italian, German and Polish occur, and with hazelnut export Turkish and Ukrainian; French, Spanish, Dutch, Czech and Chinese are rare from Abasha. For a document in Hebrew, call us first.
The process - from contract to airport
The contract before signing
A photo or PDF of the agency and employer contracts by WhatsApp or by email to info@targmanebi.ge - before you sign. An information translation takes one to two days, without certification.
Country, employer, deadline
Which country and which employer decides the visa package and the form of certification. Send us the agency's list and we will shape the package to it.
Legal translation, visa package
Contracts go to a legal translator, certificates and diplomas to an official documents translator, with notarization and an apostille; names are checked against the passport.
Paper in Abasha or at the airport
You receive the file at once; the certified package comes to Abasha by courier, or, when urgent, to Kutaisi airport (Kopitnari) before departure, or you collect it in Kutaisi.
Price and turnaround
An order from Abasha is at Tbilisi prices and the courier here runs weekly. An information translation of a contract is the cheapest category and often the most important; a visa package is five to eight documents and ordering it all at once means paying for the courier and the apostille visit only once. An information translation of a contract takes one to two days, a visa package with apostilles a week, and documents for a dispute with an employer as long as the authority or the consulate allows. Who works where and on what terms is nobody's business in Abasha, and it goes nowhere from us. The penalty and termination clauses of a contract are read by the lawyer who heads the bureau - the sole trader Mariam Zumadze, ID 30601010853 - herself, because for her they are legal categories rather than a formality; an error by her team is corrected free of charge.
Going to work in Israel, Cyprus or the Emirates and the agency has handed you a contract? Send us a photo from Abasha before you sign - within a day or two you will know what you are signing, and we will have the visa package ready before the airport.
Call: 501 113 200Frequently asked questions - working abroad, Abasha
The agency gave me an Israeli carer contract in English and I have to sign tomorrow. Can you make it?
An information translation of a five to ten page contract sent during working hours is normally ready the same or the next day, without certification. We set out the clauses on the fee, "debt", the passport and termination separately. And if the agency gives you no more than a day to sign - that tells you something too.
The contract is in Hebrew. Do you translate that?
For Hebrew we name the timing after seeing the document - send us a photo first and call. A practical tip: most Israeli agencies' contracts also have an English or Russian version, which can be translated in a day before signing; ask the agency for that version directly.
I need a work visa for a hotel in the Emirates. Which documents get translated?
Usually a criminal record certificate, a medical certificate, a diploma or hospitality certificate, certificates of experience and, if married, the marriage certificate - into English or Arabic, with an apostille and notarization. Some documents also require consular legalization, which we establish from the employer's list.
I work in Cyprus and my employer has not paid two months' wages. What gets translated for the consulate?
The contract, the payslips or the correspondence showing there were none, the bank statement and your complaint - into English or Greek for the labour authority, into Georgian for the consulate. You send the photos from Cyprus and receive the files there; paper is rarely needed in such a case.
I worked five years as a carer in Israel and now want the same work in Germany. Will the Israeli experience count?
Yes - the Israeli employer's certificate and the agency documents are translated into German, together with the Israeli visa and residence entries, in one transliteration. For German recognition you will also need Georgian medical or social education documents, if you have them.
I need the package tomorrow morning before flying from Kutaisi airport (Kopitnari). Will the courier come to the airport?
By prior arrangement, yes - at the terminal, at a specific time, if the package is already finished. An apostille cannot be affixed overnight and we will tell you that in advance; if the employer accepts the electronic version, the file will be in your chat.
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