Translation Bureau in Shuakhevi

A translation bureau for Shuakhevi - TARGMANEBI's service for a municipality where "going into town" takes a whole day. For the people of Shuakhevi, Khichauri, Oladauri, Tskhmorisi and the other communities, Batumi is not close, and Tbilisi even less so. That is why there is no other way to work here: a document photographed on a phone reaches us in seconds, we handle the translation and the notary in Tbilisi, and the courier brings the finished papers back to the valley - or hands them over in Batumi to anyone who works there.

Orders from Shuakhevi have three sources. The largest is labour migration: many local men work seasonally in Turkey, and more and more of them in Germany, Poland and the Baltic states. The second is education: school certificates and diplomas for universities in Turkey and Europe. The third is infrastructure: the Shuakhevi hydropower plant and other projects in the valley involve foreign engineers, contractors and documentation that has to exist in both Georgian and English. All three streams come in on the same number and are followed by one responsible manager - a client from the valley does not have to hunt for three different people.

Working abroad - a document package from Shuakhevi

For legal employment in Turkey or Europe, the employer and the embassy ask for a specific list of documents, and that list varies by country. Based on our orders from Shuakhevi, a typical package looks like this:

Most of these documents need notarization and an apostille, and both are done in Tbilisi. For a client in Shuakhevi this is the only stage where the original travels - the courier picks it up, it goes through the procedure in Tbilisi, and the apostilled, notarized package comes back the same way. While the original is on the road, the translation is already being prepared from the photo, so no time is lost.

Hydropower, roads and technical translation in the valley

The Shuakhevi hydropower plant and other energy projects in the Acharistskali valley are carried out with international contractors, investors and supervisors. They come with a constant flow of technical and legal documentation: construction contracts and annexes, safety instructions for workers, equipment specifications and manuals, environmental reports and public consultation materials, bilingual employment contracts with local staff, and land acquisition documents with residents. Texts like these are translated by translators with a technical and legal profile, units and terminology are checked separately, and a terminology base is built for the company so that the same piece of equipment has the same name in every document.

Turkey and education

For young people in Shuakhevi, Turkish universities - Artvin, Rize, Trabzon - are closer than Batumi and often more accessible than Tbilisi. For enrolment, the school certificate, the grade sheet, the language certificate and a health certificate are translated into Turkish, with an apostille. After graduation, the Turkish diploma and transcript are translated into Georgian for recognition in Georgia. In the European direction the same process runs in German, Polish or English. In both directions the key point is that the Georgian 10-point or the Turkish 4-point grading is understandable in the receiving system and that subject names match the curriculum - otherwise credits are lost. A translator of academic documents checks this part separately.

Languages in orders from Shuakhevi

In Shuakhevi Turkish is as much in demand as everywhere in mountain Adjara - because of work, study and family ties. German and Polish are the languages of European employment, English of infrastructure projects and general-purpose documents. People working in the Baltic states often need Russian, and those in Greece and Italy need Greek and Italian. We also work in Ukrainian, French, Spanish, Czech, Dutch, Arabic and Chinese, although these rarely come from Shuakhevi.

Two-step cases are common too: someone who has worked in Turkey is now going to Germany, and his Turkish employment certificate first has to be translated into Georgian and then into German, or a Turkish diploma is needed by a European employer. We prepare such a document as one order in two stages and check that the name, dates and numbers are identical in both translations - otherwise the embassy sees two different documents.

How to send from the valley

What it costs and how long it takes - orders from Shuakhevi

A one-page certificate or statement sent within working hours is normally translated by the next day; a notary adds one or two days; the apostille timeline depends on the authority that issued the document. A complete work visa package - five to eight documents - is usually ready within a week, apostilles included. The price is agreed after we see the documents and reflects the language, the pages and the procedures - the mountains do not appear in it, and a client in Shuakhevi pays no more than one in Tbilisi. The only separate item is the courier, and it works out cheaper the more documents travel in one trip. That is why we advise sending a work visa package all at once rather than one document at a time.

Orders are coordinated by Mariam Zumadze - sole trader and lawyer, who owns the TARGMANEBI name (ID 30601010853). If an error is ours, the translation is corrected free of charge; only the translator and manager working on the order see your document, and employment contracts and company documents are never used as samples.

Frequently asked questions - translation in Shuakhevi

Translation bureau in the other cities of Adjara

Shuakhevi's neighbours Keda and Khulo are in the same valley and have the same needs, while seaside Kobuleti and Chakvi live to a resort rhythm. Choose your city and see the local details.