Translation Bureau in Senaki

A translation bureau for Senaki - TARGMANEBI's service for a town where thousands of families live to the rhythm of one employer. Personnel from the Senaki base attend international courses in Europe, the United States and Turkey, take part in peacekeeping and training missions, and work with foreign instructors, and each of those stages brings its own group of documents: certificates that have to be translated into Georgian for a career; family papers that have to be put in order before a deployment; and medical and insurance documents needed after service.

Beside the base, Senaki has two more faces: a railway junction and its trade, where cargo from the port of Poti transfers to rail and the paperwork moves in Russian and English; and Nokalakevi, the ancient Archaeopolis, where international expeditions have worked for decades. Senaki families, military and civilian alike, live with the same papers as the rest of Samegrelo. Kutaisi is an hour from Senaki and Tbilisi four; the courier comes to the town weekly, independently of the base's own rhythm.

A service member's documents - course, mission, career

Documents from a foreign course or a mission are not classified - they are personal certificates, records and family papers serving a career and a household's everyday life:

In translating a foreign course certificate, the course name and level have to come across so that the personnel service can compare them with a Georgian qualification - so military terminology, ranks and specialities are written in their established Georgian equivalents, with the original term kept in brackets. A power of attorney before a deployment is the document to think through before signing: what rights remain with the spouse - banking, selling property, taking a child abroad - and for how long. That wording is drawn up by a Georgian notary; we come in when the spouse or child is abroad and the document has to be translated into their language.

Veterans - treatment and compensation abroad

Some of Senaki's veterans continue treatment abroad - in rehabilitation programmes, in partner countries' clinics, with the help of international foundations - and for that the Georgian medical history, diagnoses, test results and disability certificate are translated into the clinic's language, and on the way back the foreign reports and the rehabilitation plan into Georgian for the military hospital and the social service. In an insurance or compensation case over an injury sustained during a mission, foreign reports, medical opinions and correspondence with the insurer are translated into Georgian, and the Georgian documents into the insurer's language. A medical text goes to a medical translator, diagnosis codes and percentages are checked against the original, and one manager follows the case.

Nokalakevi and the railway

International archaeological expeditions work at the Nokalakevi site, and their documents - cooperation memoranda, permit applications, foreign researchers' papers, grant reports and publications - are translated in both directions by academic and legal translators. Senaki's railway junction generates a flow of logistics documents: rail waybills, cargo handover acts and customs papers for freight arriving from Poti and heading for Tbilisi - in Russian and English, urgently, with the bureau stamp.

Senaki families

A service family's papers often arrive together with civilian ones: a father heading on deployment needs a power of attorney, a sister a school certificate for a European university, a mother a Russian work record book for her pension, a brother a certificate for family reunification with an Italian spouse. In Senaki all of that is handled as one package with one transliteration, so that three generations' surname is spelled identically, and comes back on one courier run; anyone who has to be in Kutaisi collects it there.

Languages in orders from Senaki

Because of the foreign courses and missions, English outweighs every other language in Senaki - the language of international military cooperation; Turkish and German appear with partner countries' courses and clinics, Polish and Czech with training programmes. Russian and Ukrainian are the languages of the railway and older documents, Italian, Greek and Spanish of family papers, French of the Nokalakevi expeditions; Dutch, Arabic and Chinese are rare from Senaki.

The process for a service family

Price and turnaround

An order from Senaki is at Tbilisi prices and the courier here runs weekly. A military certificate or record is in the simple category - two to three days with notarization; a power of attorney and a consent are legal work - two to three days; a veteran's medical package three to five days; an insurance case without a queue, on the case's own deadline; a service family's full package before a deployment, one week. A service member's personal and medical documents are confidential and seen only by those working on the order. The duration and scope of a power of attorney is a legal question, and its text is reviewed personally by the bureau's head, the lawyer Mariam Zumadze (sole trader, ID 30601010853); an error by her team is corrected free of charge - a service family has no second chance before a deployment.

During visits by foreign instructors and partner country delegations, the Senaki base also needs an interpreter - at official meetings, at training and at briefings for international exercises. An interpreter who knows military terminology comes by prior arrangement, and for multi-day exercises the same person is assigned throughout; we work with restricted information only within the limits the host side sets.

Frequently asked questions - translation in Senaki

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