Sworn translation in Bilbao

Bilbao has spent three decades reinventing itself, and you feel it the moment you arrive. Where shipyards and steel once ruled, you now find accelerators like Bind 4.0, coworking spaces along the river and professionals drawn in by the UPV/EHU or by the firms at the Zamudio technology park. The international community keeps growing quietly, very much in keeping with the local temperament. Many land with a freshly approved digital nomad visa, a contract signed abroad or a folder of qualifications that no Spanish authority will accept without a sworn translation from a translator accredited by Spain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAEC).

At Textualia we help long-time Bilbao residents and brand-new arrivals alike, entirely online. You upload the document, see the final price at once and, once you pay, receive your sworn translation as an electronically signed PDF, valid before the Bizkaia Immigration Office, the Basque Government, registries and notaries. If your procedure calls for paper, we courier a copy on official State-stamped paper anywhere in Greater Bilbao, from Getxo to Barakaldo.

A sworn translation from Textualia is valid throughout Spain, which covers anything you need to sort out in Bilbao or the rest of Bizkaia:

• Valid before the Bizkaia Immigration Office (Gran Vía, Abando) and the Government Delegation in the Basque Country for visas, NIE, TIE and residence renewals.
• Accepted by the Basque Government and Greater Bilbao town halls for education, healthcare and social-services procedures.
• Recognised by civil, commercial and land registries and by notaries across the province.
• Issued with a recognised electronic signature, carrying the same legal weight as the translator's stamp and handwritten signature.
• Produced by a sworn translator accredited by the MAEC, the only requirement the Spanish authorities impose.
• Delivered on official State-stamped paper by courier whenever a body asks for a hard copy.

These are the documents we are most often asked to translate from English and French into Spanish in Bilbao:

• Apostilled criminal record certificates for the digital nomad visa: FBI (USA), ACRO (UK) or bulletin no. 3 (B3, France), translated into Spanish.
• University degrees and academic transcripts for official recognition by the Ministry or enrolment at the UPV/EHU.
• Birth, marriage and life certificates for the civil registry, municipal registration and family reunification.
• Employment contracts, payslips and employer certificates for work registration and employee residence procedures.
• Articles of association, deeds and annual accounts to set up or register companies in Bizkaia's industrial-tech fabric.
• Driving licences and medical records for licence exchange, insurance and dealings with Osakidetza, the Basque health service.

Bilbao's reinvention is no brochure cliché. Programmes like Bind 4.0 pair Industry 4.0, cybersecurity and energy startups with the region's industrial heavyweights, and the Zamudio technology park gathers more than two hundred companies and thousands of jobs a quarter of an hour from the centre. Around it, coworking spaces, funds and incoming talent have taken root. When an Indian engineer joins a firm in Zamudio, a French founder relocates their company, or a British researcher joins a UPV/EHU team, the same thing surfaces: papers in another language that Spanish authorities will only honour with a sworn translation.

That is where we step in. We translate degrees, contracts, corporate deeds and criminal records from English and French into Spanish, signed by a translator accredited by the MAEC, with no office to visit and no day to interrupt. You upload the files, confirm the price and get the work back by email; if your procedure in Bizkaia needs stamped paper, we send it by courier. You keep building your project in Bilbao; we take care of the paperwork.