Sworn translation in Jaén

In Jaén, Textualia's work has two clear faces. On one side, the international students of the University of Jaén (UJA), who split their classes between the Las Lagunillas campus and the Linares engineering school and turn up with transcripts, degrees and certificates from across the globe to homologate or enrol. On the other, the families and professionals dealing with immigration, citizenship or a property purchase who need a foreign document to carry legal weight in Spain. And then there is the olive grove: cooperatives and mills that export every day, moving contracts and certificates from one language to the next.

We handle it all online. You upload the document to the quote tool, get a firm price on the spot and, once it is paid, receive the sworn translation as an electronically signed PDF, valid for virtually every procedure in Jaén. Does a notary or a registry insist on a copy on official State watermarked paper? It still happens: we ship the stamped document by certified courier within 1-2 business days.

Through its MAEC accreditation, our work has full validity within Spain —it does not replace the requirements of authorities in other countries— before:

• The Government of Andalusia (Junta de Andalucía) and its territorial delegations in Jaén.
• The Immigration Office and the Sub-delegation of the Government in Jaén.
• The University of Jaén (UJA) and vocational colleges, for enrolment and homologation.
• The Civil, Property and Commercial registries of Jaén.
• The Courts of Jaén and the High Court of Justice of Andalusia.
• The notaries of the Notarial College of Andalusia.

The jobs that reach us most often from Jaén:

• Degree homologation and translation of foreign academic transcripts for the University of Jaén (UJA) and master's programmes.
• Digital Nomad Visa (DNV): professional paperwork and apostilled criminal-record certificates by country —FBI for the US, ACRO for the UK, B3 for France.
• Immigration and citizenship: birth, marriage and criminal-record certificates for the Immigration Office.
• Property purchases and powers of attorney for foreign buyers settling in the province.
• Olive-grove paperwork: export contracts and certificates of origin for olive oil from cooperatives and mills.
• International marriages and births at the Civil Registry of Jaén.

Jaén lives surrounded by the largest sea of olive trees on the planet, and much of the oil reaching Europe, Asia and the Americas starts here. That exporting vocation —cooperatives, designations of origin, mills— leaves a steady trickle of contracts, certificates of origin and customs paperwork that changes language along the way. The moment those papers have to stand before a Spanish authority, sworn translation comes into play.

Indoors, the current runs the other way. The University of Jaén (UJA) draws international students to its Jaén and Linares campuses, and a short hop away sit Úbeda and Baeza, Renaissance towns listed as UNESCO World Heritage that welcome researchers and long-stay residents. Students homologating a degree, lecturers regularising their status, digital nomads drawn by a low cost of living: in every case, the criminal record from the country of origin arrives apostilled (FBI in the US, ACRO in the UK, B3 in France) and translated by a sworn translator. Worth keeping in mind: that validity is for Spain; authorities in other countries apply their own rules.