Sworn translation in Girona

Girona has quietly become the calmer alternative to Barcelona for people who work remotely. The high-speed train sets you down at Barcelona Sants in about thirty-eight minutes, so the big city stays within reach without its prices or its pace. Add one of the country's most beautiful old towns, the French border a short drive away, the Costa Brava beaches half an hour off by car, and the University of Girona (UdG), which fills the streets with students and faculty from abroad. The French community has been coming and going for decades. Digital nomads have now joined it, landing with a freshly granted visa and a folder of documents that no Spanish authority will accept until they carry a sworn translation.

Textualia works entirely online, with long-time residents and people who have just moved into the Barri Vell or Santa Eugènia alike. You upload the document, see the final price on the spot and, the moment you pay, receive your sworn translation as an electronically signed PDF. It is fully valid in Spain: before the Girona Immigration Office on Avinguda Jaume I, registries, notaries and the UdG itself. If your procedure calls for paper, we courier the copy on official state-stamped paper anywhere in the province, from Girona to Figueres or the coast.

A sworn translation signed by a translator accredited by Spain's MAEC is fully valid throughout Spain, Girona and the rest of Catalonia included:

• Valid before the Girona Immigration Office (Avinguda Jaume I) for residence, the NIE and the digital nomad visa.
• Accepted by civil registries, notaries and land registries across the province.
• Recognised by the University of Girona (UdG) for enrolment and the recognition of foreign qualifications.
• Admitted by the Generalitat de Catalunya 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, France included.

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

• 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 Girona.
• 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.
• Deeds and powers of attorney for buying a home or setting up a company in the province.

What defines Girona is where it sits. The high-speed train puts you in Barcelona Sants in about thirty-eight minutes, so you can live here, with gentler rents and a gentler pace, while keeping clients, meetings or an international airport within reach. Most of the remote-working crowd also clusters in the handful of coworking spaces that have opened between the AVE station and the Barri Vell, a couple of minutes' walk from the train. But the other border counts just as much. La Jonquera and Le Perthus are a good half-hour away, and many of the people who reach our desk are French citizens with a life on both sides of the Pyrenees, or Catalans who study, work or have family in France. That is why the French→Spanish pair is as common here as English.

That closeness comes with a point worth being clear about. A MAEC sworn translation is valid in Spain. Presenting Spanish documents to the French administration takes whatever route each French body requires, and that is a separate matter. We focus on what we resolve outright: documents in English or French that need to count in Catalonia and the rest of Spain. A French birth certificate to marry in Girona, a transcript for the UdG, a criminal record for the nomad visa: translated with care, sworn and delivered ready to submit, without you leaving your coworking space or your home.