Sworn translation in Cádiz

To make sense of Cádiz, look at the sea. The province runs from the Bay of Cádiz to the Costa de la Luz, and along that coast an international community has put down roots that has little to do with the fortnight tourist. Tarifa, the kitesurfing capital of Europe, is home to instructors, athletes and remote workers from all over who stay for long stretches whenever the wind cooperates. In the city and its bay, the University of Cádiz brings in students and faculty from abroad, and the rise of remote work has drawn people after the beach, an affordable life and a European time zone. Almost all of them hit the same wall: a folder of foreign documents that no Spanish authority will accept until each one carries a sworn translation.

At Textualia we work entirely online, whether you have lived on the bay for years or have just landed in Tarifa for the season. You upload the document, see the final price on the spot and, the moment you pay, get your sworn translation as an electronically signed PDF, fully valid before the Immigration Office in Cádiz, the registries, the notaries and the University of Cádiz itself. And if your procedure still calls for paper, we courier the copy on official stamped paper to anywhere in the province, from the capital out to Tarifa.

A sworn translation signed by a translator accredited by Spain's MAEC is fully valid throughout Spain, the province of Cádiz included:

• Valid before the Immigration Office in Cádiz for residence, the digital nomad visa and arraigo.
• Accepted by the civil registries, notaries and land registries of the Bay of Cádiz and the Costa de la Luz.
• Recognised by the University of Cádiz (UCA) for enrolment and the recognition of foreign qualifications.
• Admitted by the Junta de Andalucía and town councils for regional and municipal procedures.
• Delivered as an electronically signed PDF, verifiable and with no need to travel.
• Important: MAEC accreditation establishes validity in Spain; we cannot guarantee acceptance by authorities in other countries.

These are the documents we are asked to translate most often in Cádiz:

• Apostilled criminal record certificates for the digital nomad visa: FBI (USA), ACRO (United Kingdom) or bulletin no. 3 (France), translated into Spanish.
• University degrees and academic transcripts for enrolment or recognition at the University of Cádiz.
• Birth, marriage and life certificates for the civil registry and family reunification.
• Employment contracts, payslips and bank statements proving financial means before the Immigration Office.
• Foreign driving licences for exchange at the traffic authority (DGT).
• Watersports and instructor qualifications (kitesurf, sailing or diving) to work in or have them recognised by Spain.

There are few places in Europe where sport rules the calendar the way it does in Tarifa. The levante and poniente winds decide who works and who heads for the water, and around that rhythm an economy of kitesurf schools, foreign instructors and remote workers has grown up, all stretching the season as far as it will go. That mix reaches us in very concrete form: the Australian instructor who needs his qualification recognised, the British couple working through their arraigo, the German applicant who finds that his apostilled criminal record is worthless without a sworn translation into Spanish.

At the other end of the province, the Bay of Cádiz has a steadier, more academic feel. The University of Cádiz spreads its campuses across the capital, Puerto Real, Jerez and Algeciras, and in Puerto Real it has built up a long tradition in marine sciences, centred on the CASEM, that draws researchers and students from abroad; sooner or later, one of them needs a degree recognised or a master's enrolment sorted out. We know both faces of Cádiz, the windswept one and the lecture-hall one, and we deliver the sworn translation in the format each office expects, without you ever leaving the beach, the coworking space or the faculty office.