A translation bureau in Baghdati - TARGMANEBI's service for a municipality where a foreigner is not only a guest but a colleague. The hotels and spa centres of the Sairme resort work to international standards and invite foreign specialists for it - from Turkey, Ukraine, Europe and Asia. Each such employee needs a package of documents to work legally in Georgia, and that package rests on Georgian translations of foreign papers. This page dwells on that reverse direction - a foreigner in Georgia rather than a Georgian abroad.
Beside the foreign staff, other flows come from Baghdati: medical and insurance papers for the resort's guests, first export consignments from small honey and wine producers, the Mayakovsky museum's international contacts, and - as everywhere in Imereti - families with members in Europe. One scheme covers all of them: a photo or file from Baghdati or Sairme, translation and certification in Tbilisi, paper back by courier.
A foreign employee in Georgia - the employer's document package
When a Sairme hotel invites a foreign spa therapist or head chef, the employer and the employee together have to prepare a chain of documents for the Georgian authorities. The foreign papers are translated into Georgian with notarization, and the Georgian contract into the employee's language:
The employee's papers in Georgian
- Passport and residence or visa document
- Diploma, professional certificates, licences (massage, cosmetology, cookery)
- Certificates of work experience and references
- Criminal record certificate from the country of citizenship, with an apostille
- Medical certificate and vaccination documents
The employer's documents in the employee's language
- Employment contract in a bilingual format
- Job description and internal rules
- Safety and hygiene rules for the spa and the kitchen
- Accommodation agreement, where the hotel provides it
- Certificates for the bank and the tax office
For the authorities
- Documents for the residence permit application
- The employer's invitation letter and salary certificate
- Family members' certificates, where the family is moving too
- Children's school and medical documents
- Translation of the authority's replies for the employee
One detail matters in translating foreign professional certificates: spa therapy, massage and cosmetology qualifications are named differently from country to country, and a Georgian authority has to see them in a form the Georgian classifier understands. That is done by a translator of the right profile, and a terminology base is created for the hotel - the next employee's papers are then translated in the same terms, and faster.
Sairme's guests - medical and hotel documents
Sairme's waters are known for digestive and kidney conditions, and foreign patients come to the resort too - with a referring doctor's letter, a diagnosis and prescriptions that the resort doctor needs in Georgian, and on departure with the resort's report and invoice in their own language, for their insurer. The hotels' ordinary material is added to that: descriptions of rooms and programmes for booking platforms, the spa menu and treatment indications, the food menu, contracts with tour operators. A medical text goes to a medical translator, a tourism text to one focused on style, without certification.
Honey, wine, forest products - a first export
Baghdati's forests and vineyards produce the output of small producers - forest honey, wine, dried fruit, mushrooms, medicinal plants - which in recent years has been reaching European and Asian markets, often for the first time. Honey export has a rather strict documentary rule of its own: the buyer asks for a laboratory protocol on moisture, diastase, HMF and antibiotic residues; the European Union for producer registration and a certificate of origin; and the label has to be in the receiving country's language with the mandatory statements. An invoice, a packing list and, where organic status applies, the inspector's reports are added. A honey laboratory protocol is the document where one decimal place means a consignment sent back - we check it twice.
Baghdati's forests have another, less well known export - timber and wooden goods, for which a European buyer asks for legality of origin documents: the felling licence, the transport waybill, forestry agency certificates and sustainable forest management certificates. Those documents are translated into English with the bureau stamp and attached to the buyer's questionnaires.
The Mayakovsky museum and cultural cooperation
Baghdati is Mayakovsky's birthplace, and his house museum attracts foreign visitors, researchers and cultural institutions. For the museum and local cultural projects we translate exhibition texts and exhibit labels, material for international festivals and literary events, cooperation memoranda with foreign museums, grant applications for cultural heritage programmes, and researchers' correspondence. Literary text carries a particular requirement here - quotations, titles and poetic terminology have to come across in the form of the established translations.
Baghdati families
People from Baghdati working in Sairme's hotels need papers themselves, only in the opposite direction - when they go at the end of the season to work in a European hotel, their qualification and experience certificates are translated into the employer's language. The other families of the Khanistskali valley translate the ordinary Imeretian papers: for an embassy, for a university in Kutaisi, for a power of attorney from a child abroad, for a grandmother's pension. A hotel contract and a grandmother's record book are served by the same number and the same courier.
Languages in orders from Baghdati
Because of the foreign staff and guests, Turkish, Ukrainian and Russian are everyday languages in Baghdati, and English the language of contracts, platforms and export. For European staff and markets German, French, Italian and Polish appear, for Asian spa specialists Chinese, for Middle Eastern guests Arabic. Greek, Spanish, Dutch and Czech are tied to family documents and individual contracts. For certificates in Thai and other Asian languages, call us first - we confirm availability after seeing them.
The process for an employer and an employee
The employee's papers - straight from them
Have the foreign employee send photos of their passport, diploma and certificates themselves, from their own phone - by WhatsApp or by email to info@targmanebi.ge; the employer sends the contract as a file.
Which authority and what deadline
Residence, employment or banking purposes decide the form of certification. Tell us the start date of the job so that the package is ready before it.
Translation in both directions
Foreign papers go into Georgian with an official documents translator and notarization, the contract into the employee's language with a legal one; one editor checks both, so that the name and the job title are identical everywhere.
Delivery in Sairme or Baghdati
The files reach the employer and the employee at the same time; the paper package is handed in at the Sairme hotel reception by courier, and the courier comes to Baghdati and Kutaisi too.
Price and turnaround
An order from Baghdati is at Tbilisi prices. A foreign employee's package is five to eight documents, and ordering it as a package is cheaper than translating them one by one - one courier run, one invoice; for a hotel inviting several staff in a season, the terminology base reduces each following package. Timing: a passport and a certificate with notarization in two to three days, certificates in two to four, a bilingual contract by volume; a guest's medical report in one day. An employee's background and a hotel's salary table go no further than the hotel with us. The contract with the hotel is signed on the bureau's side by its owner, the sole trader Mariam Zumadze (ID 30601010853), who takes written responsibility for the package's accuracy; a confirmed inaccuracy is corrected free of charge.
Inviting a foreign employee to Sairme, a resort guest needing a report, sending honey abroad for the first time, or a family certificate to translate? Send us the file or photo from Baghdati - we will assess the whole package in one go.
Call: 501 113 200Frequently asked questions - translation in Baghdati
I have invited a Turkish head chef to a Sairme hotel. Which of his documents get translated for residence?
The passport, a criminal record certificate from Turkey with an apostille, the culinary diploma or certificates and the experience certificates - into Georgian with notarization; from your side, the invitation letter and the salary certificate. We prepare the contract bilingually, so that the employee understands what they are signing.
Is a Ukrainian spa therapist's certificate enough for a Georgian authority?
The authority accepts the certificate with a notarized Georgian translation; the name of the qualification is carried across in the term used by the Georgian classifier. Whether additional recognition is needed depends on the particular post - we establish that before the order.
The employee is still abroad and has the documents with them. Can they send them directly?
Yes, and that is the best route - we take the photos straight from their phone, prepare the translation before they arrive, and they bring the originals with them. The package is waiting the moment they land.
Does a honey laboratory protocol for a German buyer have to be notarized?
German buyers normally accept a honey protocol with the bureau stamp - a notary only where the contract says so explicitly. Every value in the protocol, with its units and limit values, is checked against the original separately, because those figures decide whether the consignment is accepted.
A resort guest leaves in two days and needs a report for their insurer. Can you make it?
Yes - a two-page report from the Sairme doctor and the invoice in the guest's language take one working day and reach them with the bureau stamp, as a file, before they get home. That form is enough for most insurers.
Will the courier come up to Sairme, to the resort?
Yes - the courier comes to the Sairme hotels on an agreed day, and to Baghdati and Kutaisi as well. Originals travel only for an apostille; everything else is prepared from photos.
Translation bureau in the other cities of Imereti
A foreign staff package is prepared the same way for hotels anywhere in Imereti; in Baghdati that flow is the most frequent because of Sairme. The other towns' pages carry the local accents and the delivery options.