Sworn translation in Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela is small, but it runs like a capital. It is home to the seat of the Xunta de Galicia and, a few minutes from the Obradoiro façade, to a university founded in 1495 that fills the old town each year with Erasmus students, researchers and PhD candidates from across the world. Then there are the pilgrims. Thousands finish the Camino at the cathedral every year, and plenty of them fall for the city: they want to stay, study or marry in Galicia, and they soon find that almost any official procedure calls for a sworn translation of their papers into Spanish.

Textualia works entirely online with anyone living, studying or landing in Santiago. Upload your document, see the final price on the spot and, once you pay, receive your sworn translation as an electronically signed PDF — fully valid before the USC, the Xunta, and the city's registries and notaries. If your procedure needs paper, we send the copy on official State-stamped paper by courier anywhere in Galicia.

A sworn translation signed by a translator accredited by Spain's MAEC is valid throughout Spain. For clients in Santiago, we routinely submit it to:

• The University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and the Xunta's education authorities (admission, recognition and validation of degrees).
• The immigration office (Extranjería) and the Government Subdelegation in A Coruña, which covers the whole province (residence, NIE, TIE).
• The Civil Registry of Santiago (births, marriages, nationality).
• Notaries and Land Registries in the city (property purchase, powers of attorney, inheritance).
• The departments of the Xunta de Galicia and any public body across the rest of Spain.

• USC enrolment and degree recognition: academic transcripts, diplomas and grade certificates for international and Erasmus students.
• Residence and studies: student visa, non-lucrative residence and family reunification.
• Digital Nomad Visa: apostilled criminal-record certificate (FBI in the US, ACRO in the UK, B3 in France) and often your degree or contract, translated into Spanish.
• Marriage in Santiago and registration of births at the Civil Registry.
• Property purchase and setting up companies with foreign partners.
• Spanish nationality by residence.

Plenty of people walk into Santiago and, once here, decide to come back for good: a master's at the USC, a PhD, an Erasmus stay that runs into a second year. The first hurdle is rarely academic. It is administrative. To enrol or have your studies recognised you must submit your academic transcript and degree translated into Spanish by a sworn translator; if you come from outside the EU, add a student visa with its apostilled criminal-record certificate.

That is the part we handle. We translate your grade certificate or diploma using the terminology the USC and the Xunta expect to see, deliver it signed and ready for your file and, if the registrar asks for a paper copy, it reaches Santiago in a day or two.