Translation Bureau in Ozurgeti

A translation bureau for Ozurgeti - TARGMANEBI's service for the centre of Guria, an hour and a half from Kutaisi and four hours from Tbilisi. People in Ozurgeti traditionally went to Kutaisi or Batumi to have a document translated and lost a day over a single certificate. Our scheme removes that journey: the photo is sent from Ozurgeti, the translation and notarization are prepared at the central office, the apostille is affixed there, and the finished package comes back to Ozurgeti by courier.

Orders from the centre of Guria reproduce the region's picture exactly. The largest group belongs to emigrant families: Guria is among the Georgian regions that send the most people to work in Europe, and every family is tied to abroad by a flow of documents. The second group is the hazelnut industry, from farmers to processing plants working with European buyers. The third is students going from Ozurgeti to universities in Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Europe.

Hazelnuts - Guria's main export and its paperwork

In the Ozurgeti municipality hazelnuts are the income of thousands of families and the business of several large processing plants. The European confectionery industry that buys Gurian hazelnuts demands a strict documentary standard - and that standard applies both to the farmer delivering to the plant and to the plant shipping to Europe.

The aflatoxin analysis protocol and the quality specification are the documents where one decimal place means a consignment sent back. So laboratory protocols are checked by two people - the translator for terminology, the editor for the figures and the units - and for regular clients we build a terminology base so that product classes and parameters are written identically in every document.

Families in Italy, Greece and Germany

The geography of Gurian emigration shows directly in Ozurgeti's orders: Italy and Greece are the countries of the older generation's carers and domestic workers, Germany and Poland of the young. These families need documents in both directions. Everything an embassy or a foreign authority asks for goes out from Ozurgeti: civil status certificates, a certificate that a person is unmarried, a criminal record certificate, a doctor's report, school and university papers, the other parent's consent for a minor to travel - in the relevant language, with notarization and an apostille. Coming back to Ozurgeti from abroad: powers of attorney for property and banking, foreign marriage and birth certificates, employment contracts and salary certificates - in Georgian for Georgian authorities.

Students and the college

Graduates of Ozurgeti's schools and vocational college apply to universities in Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Europe, take part in exchange programmes and go abroad on internships. For that we translate the school certificate and transcript, the college diploma and vocational certificate, reference letters, motivation letters, language certificates and student certificates. In academic translation, subject names and the grading system are carried across in the receiving country's terminology so that the university can see the credits; on the way back, a foreign diploma is translated into Georgian for recognition.

Medical documents arrive regularly from the Ozurgeti regional clinic and private centres too: a discharge summary, test results and prescriptions in the language of an embassy or clinic so that treatment can continue abroad, and a foreign report for a patient treated in Europe into Georgian for their Georgian doctor. A medical text is translated by a translator of the right profile, with diagnosis codes and international drug names checked separately.

What we check before delivery - the standard for Ozurgeti orders

Every translation goes through a separate stage before delivery, where the text is not simply read again but compared against the original point by point:

• Given name and surname - in the Latin spelling that matches your current Georgian passport or ID, so that the documents agree with each other at the embassy and the bank
• Dates, numbers, sums, percentages and units - in the original's format and digit by digit
• Stamps, seals, signatures and apostille fields - each described and placed
• Table structure - a transcript, a laboratory protocol, a bank statement in the original's layout
• Specialist terminology - legal, medical, agricultural, academic

A translator is matched to a document by field as well as by language: a hazelnut laboratory protocol goes to an agricultural and technical translator, a marriage certificate to a specialist in official documents, a medical report to the medical direction. We keep that principle on every Ozurgeti order, whatever the size of the document.

Languages in orders from Ozurgeti

Because of Gurian emigration, Italian and Greek are in higher demand in Ozurgeti than in other regions, with German and Polish for younger people's employment. English is the language of hazelnut export and of universal documents, Russian and Ukrainian of traditional markets and older papers. The remaining directions - Spanish, French, Turkish, Czech, Dutch, Arabic, Chinese - are rare from Ozurgeti but handled the same way.

Italian and Greek documents bring one typical difficulty: certificates from municipalities there (certificato di residenza, pistopoiitiko oikogeneiakis katastasis) are often printed forms with handwritten additions and local abbreviations. Such a document goes to an Italian or Greek direction translator who knows those forms and does not skip the abbreviations. A Georgian notary and a Georgian authority accept only a complete translation, so even an apparently immaterial entry is translated.

Ordering from Ozurgeti - steps, timing, price

A guide to timing for Ozurgeti: a certificate is translated by the next day and in your hands with notarization by the third or fourth; an export invoice and certificate often the same day, because a lorry must not stand idle in harvest season; an apostille takes as long as the issuing authority for that document requires. The price is the same for Tbilisi and Ozurgeti and is fixed the moment we see the document. Hazelnut companies have a monthly invoice, a confidentiality agreement and one responsible manager; that manager is Mariam Zumadze, the sole trader in whose name the bureau is registered (ID 30601010853). An error of ours is corrected free of charge as soon as we are told.

Frequently asked questions - translation in Ozurgeti

Translation bureau in the other cities of Guria

The service described for Ozurgeti works identically in every municipality and town of Guria, from Lanchkhuti to Ureki. Choose your city and see the local detail.