A translation bureau in Terjola - TARGMANEBI's service for a municipality where the internet gives many households a European income without going to Europe. Online work has one peculiarity: it comes with almost no paper. The contract is electronic, the invoice is generated by the platform, the payment arrives through an international system - and when a bank asks for proof of income for a mortgage, when the tax office asks about the source, or when an embassy checks financial independence for a visa, those electronic records have to be submitted in Georgian, often certified.
Beside the online workers, Terjola has its ordinary flows too: small cellars sending Terjola wine abroad for the first time; families with members in Europe; students in Kutaisi. The scheme is the same for everyone - a file or photo from Terjola, translation and certification in Tbilisi, paper by courier to Terjola or Kutaisi.
Foreign income for a Georgian bank and the tax office
An online worker needs to prove income in three places - the bank, the tax office and an embassy - and each asks for different documents:
For the bank - loan, mortgage, card
- The platform contract or Terms of Service with the relevant section
- Income statement from the platform, year by year
- Statement from the foreign payment system account
- Invoices issued to foreign clients
- A foreign client's letter confirming the cooperation
For the tax office - source and status
- Agreement with the foreign client, with a description of the work
- Certificate of the foreign company's registration
- Foreign tax residency certificate, where double taxation arises
- Fee calculation and certificate of tax withheld
- Double taxation relief forms
For an embassy - visa and residence
- Income certificate, translated and certified
- Foreign contract for a digital nomad or freelancer visa
- Description of the portfolio, clients or platform rating
- Georgian bank statement and tax certificate in the embassy's language
- Sole trader registration extract with an apostille
These documents carry one detail that often stalls a case: a platform statement and contract are issued electronically, without a signature or a stamp. Banks and authorities normally accept such a document if the translation carries the electronic source, the link and the date of generation in full and is certified with the bureau stamp or notarized. We state that separately in the translation. Sums, currency and periods are checked against the original digit by digit - those are exactly what the bank counts.
Agreements with foreign clients and the online shop
The other side of online work is the clients themselves. A freelancer in Terjola signs an agreement with a foreign client in English, and its terms - deadlines, fees, copyright, confidentiality - have to be understood in Georgian before signature. An online shop owner selling handmade goods or wine on an international platform needs the shop terms, the returns policy and the product descriptions in the buyer's language. An online teacher needs the teaching platform's agreement and their certificates. Agreements go to a legal-profile translator - for information, to be understood before signing, or in a bilingual format if the client agrees; shop texts go to a translator focused on style, without certification.
Online teachers and tutors have a document of their own: a foreign teaching platform often asks for an English translation of the diploma and teaching certificate at registration, and a foreign parent may ask for a criminal record certificate. Those documents are prepared with certification, because the platform sends them for verification, and once translated they work for years.
Terjola wine - the first export package
Terjola's cellars - small producers of Tsolikouri, Tsitska and Otskhanuri - have in recent years been sending their first export consignments, often to a buyer found online. A first export needs a short but obligatory package of documents: the contract or order confirmation, the invoice and packing list, the certificate of origin, the laboratory analysis, and the label text to the receiving country's requirements. For a small cellar we prepare that package once and keep the terminology base - the documents for the second consignment are then produced from the template, cheaply.
Family papers from Terjola
Beyond the online economy, Terjola is an ordinary Imeretian municipality and its families translate ordinary papers: a certificate in an embassy's language for a visa; a school certificate for a child applying in Kutaisi or abroad; a power of attorney in Georgian from a brother in Europe; a second parent's consent for a child; a Russian work record book for a parent's pension. A freelancer's contract and a grandmother's record book share one number, one manager and one courier - only the translators differ.
Languages in orders from Terjola
Because of online work, English outweighs every other language in Terjola - platforms, contracts and invoices are almost all in English. German and Dutch appear in European clients' agreements, Russian and Ukrainian in online shops' markets, and Polish, Italian and Greek in family documents. French, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Arabic and Czech are tied to wine export and individual clients.
The process - for electronic documents
A PDF straight from the platform
The statement, contract and invoices as PDFs exactly as the platform generates them, by email to info@targmanebi.ge; a certificate as a photo by WhatsApp. Attach the link too, if the document is verifiable online.
Bank, tax office or embassy
Who it is for decides whether the whole document or only sections are translated, and whether with the bureau stamp or notarized. Send us the authority's requirement.
Translation and comparison of figures
A financial document goes to a financial and legal profile translator, and the editor compares sums, currency and periods against the original. The electronic source is noted separately in the translation.
The file and, where needed, paper
You receive the file at once - most banks and the tax office accept the electronic version. Certified paper comes by courier to Terjola or Kutaisi.
Price, turnaround, confidentiality
A client in Terjola pays no more than one in Tbilisi; the price of financial documents is set by the number of pages and by whether the full text or only sections are needed - so drawing that line correctly often saves two or three times over. A one or two page statement or certificate is ready in one to two working days, with notarization in two to three; an agreement goes by volume. How much you earn and from whom is nobody's business in Terjola: access to financial files is limited to two people and they appear nowhere, in any form. TARGMANEBI is owned by the sole trader Mariam Zumadze (ID 30601010853) - herself a sole trader, who understands the bank's and the tax office's requirements from her own experience; an error by her team is corrected free of charge.
Working online from Terjola and the bank, the tax office or an embassy has asked you to prove foreign income? Send us the platform PDF and the authority's requirement - we will tell you which sections need translating and in what form, and you will not pay for anything extra.
Call: 501 113 200Frequently asked questions - online work and translation from Terjola
The platform income statement has no stamp or signature. Will the bank accept it?
Most banks do, if the translation states the electronic source, the date of generation and the link in full and is certified with the bureau stamp or notarized. Ask your bank branch which form they need and tell us; either way the sums are checked digit by digit.
The platform terms of service run to 200 pages. Does the tax office need all of it?
No - as a rule the sections on remuneration, status (contractor or employee) and payment terms are enough. Send us the contents and we will choose together what to translate; the rest is referenced by link.
The agreement with a foreign client is in English and I do not fully understand it. Is it worth translating, or should I just sign?
An information translation before signing - uncertified, fast and cheap - is worth it: the clauses on copyright, deadlines and penalties are usually exactly where the difficulty hides. If a dispute arises later, we will prepare a certified translation of the same agreement.
How do I prepare an income certificate for a digital nomad visa?
It depends on the country: usually the platform statement and the contracts in the embassy's language with notarization, plus a Georgian bank statement and the sole trader extract with an apostille. Send us the embassy's list and we will shape the package to it.
I need product descriptions for an online shop in English and German - forty items.
One order, two languages, one style: we translate the descriptions from one source so that sizes, materials and conditions read identically in both. When new items are added we continue in the same terminology. No certification is needed.
I am sending Terjola wine to Germany for the first time, to a buyer I found online. Which documents get translated?
The invoice, the packing list, the certificate of origin, the laboratory analysis and the label text to German requirements - the bureau stamp is normally enough. We prepare the package in one go and keep the template for the next consignment.
Translation bureau in the other cities of Imereti
The rules for online workers' documents are the same across Imereti, and Terjola is simply one of the clearest examples of that flow. The other towns' pages carry the local accents and the delivery options.