Sworn translation in Rojales

On Rojales' municipal register, residents with a foreign passport outnumber the Spanish — and not narrowly: over 70% of those on the padrón were born abroad, a figure that puts the town at the very top of Spain's INE statistics year after year, second only to neighbouring San Fulgencio. Most are British, and a drive up from the old village to Ciudad Quesada proves the point: menus in English, offices with bilingual staff, lawn bowls clubs and whole lives lived comfortably in another language. The trouble starts when that life meets the Spanish administration, which works only in Spanish: the TIE under the Withdrawal Agreement at the Torrevieja police station, buying or selling the villa before a notary, probate for a relative who died back in England, a DWP pension or the car brought over from the UK. In every one of those procedures, a document in English counts for nothing without a sworn translation into Spanish.

That is the step we take care of, entirely online. We are from the province — based in El Campello, at the other end of the Alicante coastline — and that is exactly why we built the service to need no offices: we have no branch in Rojales, and you will not need one. You upload the document, see a fixed price on the spot and receive the sworn translation as an electronically signed PDF, signed by a translator accredited by the MAEC and valid throughout Spain. And if the authority insists on paper, we send it on official stamped paper by courier to Rojales, Ciudad Quesada or wherever you are.

A sworn translation by a translator accredited by Spain's MAEC is accepted by every Spanish public body, which in Rojales mostly means the following:

• Residence and immigration: the TIE under the Withdrawal Agreement and its renewals at the National Police station in Torrevieja, and residence files before the Immigration Office in Alicante.
• Buying and selling property: foreign deeds, powers of attorney and certificates for the notary and the Land Registry.
• Inheritance: foreign wills, grants of probate and death certificates to settle an estate before a Spanish notary.
• Civil status and the padrón: birth, marriage or death certificates for the Civil Registry and Rojales town hall.
• Pensions: DWP letters, pension statements and proof-of-life certificates before the Spanish Social Security.
• Vehicles: the UK V5C logbook and car paperwork for re-registering the vehicle in Spain with the Alicante traffic authority (DGT).

And the usual caveat: the MAEC sworn translation is valid before the Spanish authorities; if your document needs to take effect outside Spain, check the destination country's requirements first.

What we translate most often for people in Rojales and Ciudad Quesada:

• Apostilled ACRO criminal record checks (UK) for residence and nationality, alongside FBI checks (USA) and the French bulletin no. 3.
• Birth, marriage and death certificates from the UK's GRO and other foreign registries.
• Wills and probate paperwork — grant of probate, letters of administration — for estates with assets in Spain.
• Deeds and powers of attorney executed abroad for buying or selling a home.
• Pension paperwork: DWP letters, P60s and proof-of-life certificates.
• Medical reports in English for treatment, insurance or dependency claims.
• V5C logbooks and vehicle documents for re-registering a UK car in Spain.

Rojales is really two worlds sharing one municipality. Down by the Segura lies the old village: the Carlos III bridge, completed in 1790, the centuries-old weir and waterwheel that still lift water for the market gardens, and the Cuevas del Rodeo — former cave houses turned artists' workshops that fill up on the first Sunday of every month for the Rodearte craft market. Up on the dry hillside, Justo Quesada began buying land in the early seventies and built the development that bears his name: Ciudad Quesada, a town in its own right, with a golf course, shops and thousands of homes, where more people live today than in the historic centre — most of them British.

You can spend weeks up there without needing a word of Spanish, until the paperwork arrives. A renewal at the Torrevieja police station, an inheritance, the sale of the villa, a pension form: sooner or later everything lands in front of an official who only accepts documents in Spanish. That part is ours: sworn translations from English and French into Spanish, signed by a MAEC-accredited translator, the PDF in your inbox within days and, when the procedure demands it, the original on official stamped paper in your letterbox in Ciudad Quesada, Doña Pepa or Benimar.