Sworn translation in Gandia

Gandia changes size twice a year. From October to May it is the quiet capital of La Safor: the Passeig de les Germanies in the late afternoon, the Palau Ducal dels Borja, the UPV campus by the Grau with its two thousand or so students. Come July the beach wakes up all at once, and apartment blocks that have kept their blinds down for months fill with families back, one more summer, at the second home. Between one Gandia and the other moves rather more foreign paperwork than you might expect: the French school transcript of someone hoping to enrol at the campus, the deed to a seafront flat inherited by a brother living in Brussels, the criminal record check the immigration authorities ask of anyone staying here year-round. None of those papers counts for anything before the Spanish authorities while it stays in French, English or German: first it needs a sworn translation into Spanish.

Textualia handles that step without you setting foot in an office. You upload the document, see the final price on the spot and, once you pay, receive the sworn translation as a PDF electronically signed by a translator accredited by Spain's MAEC, fully valid before notaries, registries, courts and the Valencian regional administration. If the procedure calls for paper, we print it on official stamped paper and send it by courier. And although the service is entirely online, this one is almost home turf: we work from the province of Alicante, just down the coast from La Safor.

A sworn translation by a translator accredited by Spain's MAEC is fully valid throughout Spain, which covers the procedures that come up most often in Gandia:

• Studies: foreign degrees, diplomas and transcripts for recognition or enrolment, for instance at the UPV's Gandia campus.
• Residence and immigration: paperwork for the NIE and TIE processed at the National Police station in Gandia, and files for the Immigration Office in Valencia.
• Buying a home: foreign deeds, powers of attorney and certificates before a notary and the Land Registry.
• Civil status and municipal registration: birth, marriage or death certificates for the Civil Registry and Gandia town hall.
• Work and pensions: foreign contracts, payslips and pension certificates before the Social Security.
• Inheritance: wills and grants of representation executed outside Spain.

One point worth being clear about: the MAEC sworn translation certifies the document before the Spanish authorities; if you are presenting it outside Spain, check the destination country's requirements first.

This is what reaches us most often from Gandia and the rest of La Safor:

• University degrees, diplomas and academic transcripts for recognition or enrolment, with the UPV campus as the usual destination.
• Apostilled criminal record checks for residence and visas: ACRO (UK), FBI (USA) or bulletin no. 3 (France), translated into Spanish.
• Birth, marriage and death certificates and foreign family record books for the Civil Registry and the municipal register.
• Deeds and powers of attorney tied to apartments on Gandia beach.
• Employment contracts and work certificates for those returning from abroad or settling here.
• Wills and inheritance papers executed outside Spain.

The Borja name is everywhere in Gandia: in the Palau Ducal that the family of Rodrigo de Borja —the future Pope Alexander VI— made its own when it bought the duchy in 1485, in the Francesc de Borja district hospital, and in the memory of the fourth duke, Saint Francis Borgia, who founded the town's first university here in the mid-16th century. That university vanished, but the calling came back: since 1993 the UPV's Gandia campus by the Grau has trained some two thousand students in Tourism, Telecommunications and Audiovisual Communication, joined every year by Erasmus and exchange students. Add a beach with thousands of second homes, one of the largest Bulgarian communities in the Valencian region and the INE figure placing it among the fastest-growing Spanish cities in 2024, and you get a mid-sized city where foreign paperwork turns up at every hour: transcripts awaiting recognition, certificates for the municipal register, deeds signed by two hands in two languages.

That is what we are here for. We translate degrees, transcripts, civil status certificates, criminal record checks, deeds and powers of attorney from English and French into Spanish, signed by a translator accredited by the MAEC. You upload the files, confirm the fixed price and receive the electronically signed PDF, ready for the campus, the notary or the police station on Calle Ciutat de Laval. And if the body insists on paper, we send it on official stamped paper to your address in Gandia, the Grau or the beach.