A translation bureau for Oni - TARGMANEBI's service for a municipality where the documents often stand for people's lives and the future of whole settlements. After the Shovi tragedy of 2023, international organisations, foreign foundations and insurance companies arrived in Oni municipality at the same time, and each has its own language and rules for documents. Local families, the municipality, resort owners and the Georgian partners of recovery projects stand between these languages - and this page is for them.
Beyond the tragedy, Oni is a mountain municipality with its ordinary needs: the Utsera resort, waiting for investors and patients; the villages of Ghebi, Glola and Chiora, from which eco-migrants moved down to the lowlands while their property stayed in the mountains; families whose children are in Europe. From Oni it is five hours to Tbilisi and three to Kutaisi; in our scheme it is the courier who travels that road, not you.
After the disaster - insurance, compensation and inheritance cases
When a family loses a home, a business or a loved one in a disaster, the paperwork often crosses borders: the insurance company is international, the affected person or heir lives abroad, the aid comes from a foreign foundation. In such cases the translation has to be precise and tactful at the same time:
Insurance and compensation
- Insurance policy terms in Georgian and the claim in the insurer's language
- Official records confirming the disaster and expert reports
- Property valuation report and loss calculation
- State compensation documents for an owner living abroad
- Correspondence with the insurer and the foundation in both directions
Inheritance and family
- Death certificate and medical certificate for a foreign authority
- Renunciation of inheritance or a power of attorney from an heir abroad
- Kinship certificates and the certificate of inheritance
- Guardianship documents, if a child has been left behind
- Registry extract and property documents in the heirs' language
Business recovery
- Loss documents for a resort, hotel or enterprise for an investor
- The recovery project and budget in the donor's language
- Contracts with foreign contractors
- The history of licences and permits for a new owner
- Correspondence with partners and creditors
In such a document the translator adds nothing and softens nothing - the date, place, cause and extent of the loss in an official record are carried over exactly as in the original, even if the wording is dry or awkward, because that is exactly what the insurer and the court read. One family's or business's case is followed from start to finish by the same two people, so that names, addresses and amounts never fall apart anywhere, and the deadlines are set by the insurer's and the court's calendar, not by our queue.
Recovery and humanitarian projects - between the donor and Oni
Projects by international organisations, European foundations and foreign governments are currently under way in Oni municipality - infrastructure recovery, village safety, geological monitoring, psychosocial support, small business grants. The Georgian partners of these projects - the municipality, community organisations, resort owners, cooperatives - need Georgian translations of donor contracts and reporting rules, translations of their own applications and reports into the donor's language, two-way translation of geological and technical reports, the papers of foreign experts and volunteers in Georgian, and training materials for the villages. A geological report is translated by a technical translator, a donor contract by a legal one, psychosocial programme materials by a specialist in the medical and social field - and all three use the same terminology base, which stays with the project until it is completed.
Utsera and the mineral waters - the future of the resorts
The mineral water resorts of Utsera, Shovi and elsewhere in Racha are waiting for investors and patients, and here there are two groups of documents. Investment documents - privatisation and land papers, building permits, geological and safety reports in the investor's language, a foreign company's documents and contracts in Georgian. And medical ones, as at any spa resort: the patient's referral and diagnosis in Georgian on arrival, the resort's report and invoice in the patient's language on departure. After the disaster, safety and geological monitoring documents have become especially important in an investment package - they are translated by a technical translator and the terminology is checked to scientific standards.
Mountain villages, eco-migrants, families
Many families from the villages of Ghebi, Glola, Chiora, Sori and Mamisoni have resettled in the lowlands while their property stayed in the mountains - often with Soviet-era papers. When a house in Ghebi is valued for compensation or a grandmother retires on a pension, these Russian-language orders and record books are translated into Georgian, and a son's or daughter's power of attorney arrives from Europe with an apostille. Papers for an embassy, a university and a bank are added to this, and the family receives one package with one transliteration. The courier comes to Oni on an agreed day, and towards Mamisoni and Ghebi - seasonally.
Languages in orders from Oni
Because of the recovery projects, English is now in first place in Oni - the language of donors, insurers and experts; German and French appear with European foundations. Russian is the language of the Racha diaspora and old documents, Italian, Greek and Polish the languages of family members in Europe. With resort investors Turkish, Arabic and Chinese come up, with patients Ukrainian; for Spanish, Dutch and Czech documents there are a few orders a year from Oni.
The process - for a case and a project
Every page of the case
In an insurance, inheritance or project case, send us the whole folder, not single documents - as photos or files, by WhatsApp or by email to info@targmanebi.ge. An official record sent separately and a report sent separately will not match each other.
The recipient and the calendar
Tell us who will receive it - an insurer, a court, a donor, an investor, an embassy - and which day is the last. Both the form of certification and the order of work depend on this.
One team for the whole package
The medical, legal and technical parts are translated by specialist translators, and one editor checks names, dates and amounts against each other across the whole package.
Paper in Oni
You receive the file straight away; the courier brings the certified package to Oni in one visit, to the mountain villages seasonally, or you collect it in Kutaisi or at the Tbilisi office. Originals travel only for an apostille.
Price and deadline
A client in Oni pays no more than one in Tbilisi; the courier to Upper Racha is a separate line on the invoice and appears once for the whole case. The price is agreed after we see the documents: in an inheritance or insurance case a certificate is the cheaper category and an expert report or court record the more expensive one, but ordering the whole folder together always costs less than translating the pages one by one. One official record takes one to two days, a full package with notarization a week, a donor report as long as its page count requires; where a court deadline applies, our deadline is the court's. Resorts and community organisations have a terminology base and one invoice at the end of the month. Oni cases are followed by the bureau's founder herself, a lawyer by profession - the sole trader Mariam Zumadze (ID 30601010853) - who corrects any confirmed inaccuracy free of charge and without delay.
Have an insurance or inheritance case in Oni, taking part in a recovery project, preparing a resort for an investor or holding an old mountain village paper that needs translating? Send us the whole folder - we will name the price once and fit the deadline to the insurer's, the court's or the donor's calendar.
Call: 501 113 200Frequently asked questions - translation in Oni
Our cottage at the resort was damaged and the international insurer wants the official records and valuation in English. How long, and in what form?
The records, the expert report and the valuation into English in one to two days, with the bureau stamp or notarized - as the insurer requires. The wording is carried over word for word, and amounts and dates are checked against the original. If needed, we translate the policy terms into Georgian for you, so that you know what you are claiming.
My brother lives abroad and has to take part in an inheritance case. How do we prepare his documents?
His renunciation of inheritance or power of attorney before a local notary, with an apostille and a notarized Georgian translation, together with his passport and kinship certificates. The Georgian documents - the death certificate, the certificate of inheritance, the registry extract - go to him in his language. We handle the whole case with one transliteration.
We are a community organisation taking part in a European foundation's recovery project. In which language do the contract and reports need to be?
The foundation's contract and reporting rules in Georgian for your accounts department, your reports and invoice package in English or the foundation's language - with the bureau stamp and one terminology base. A financial editor checks the budget tables down to the euro cent.
The geological monitoring report is in English and the municipality needs it in Georgian. Can you do that too?
Yes - technical and scientific text is translated by a translator with the matching background, geological terminology and units are checked to scientific standards, and the captions on diagrams are given as a separate list. Depending on the volume, from a few days to a week.
The Utsera resort is looking for an investor and the documents need to be in English. Where do we start?
An investment package usually covers the registry extract, land and building papers, the history of permits, geological and safety reports and a business plan - in English, with the bureau stamp, in one consistent terminology. If you have the investor's questionnaire, send it and we will fit the package to it.
The papers for my grandfather's house are in Ghebi, I live in Kutaisi and my son is in Germany. Where should the courier come?
Wherever you like - to Ghebi seasonally, or to Oni or Kutaisi on an agreed day. Send photos of the old papers from Ghebi or Kutaisi, your son's power of attorney will come from Germany; the courier takes a paper original only if an apostille is needed.
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