French Translation Ireland
Certified, ISD Accepted

French-Language Documents We Translate

We translate French-language documents issued in France, Belgium (Wallonia, Brussels), Luxembourg, Switzerland (Romandy), Monaco, Canada (Quebec) and francophone Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, DRC, Burkina Faso and other French-speaking jurisdictions). Diacritics (à, â, ç, é, è, ê, ë, î, ï, ô, ù, û, ü, ÿ, œ, æ) are preserved exactly as they appear on the original. Common French document types include:

• Birth certificates: extrait d'acte de naissance / copie intégrale from the mairie
• Marriage certificates: extrait d'acte de mariage and livret de famille
• Divorce judgments: jugement de divorce from the Tribunal judiciaire
• Death certificates: extrait d'acte de décès
• Police clearance: extrait de casier judiciaire (bulletin n°3) from the Casier Judiciaire National (Nantes)
• Academic diplomas: baccalauréat, licence, master, doctorat and BTS / DUT
• Academic transcripts: relevé de notes
• Notarial deeds: acte notarié (acte authentique) from a French or Belgian notaire
• Court judgments: jugement, arrêt (Cour d'Appel), ordonnance
• Certificat de coutume for legal use in Ireland
• Employment contracts (contrat de travail) and salary certificates (attestation de salaire)
• Medical records, prescription histories and vaccination certificates

French-Specific Expertise

France uses a traducteur assermenté (also called traducteur expert judiciaire) appointed by a Cour d'Appel; Belgium has beëdigde vertalers / traducteurs-jurés registered with the Federal Public Service Justice; Switzerland operates cantonal traducteur-juré registers. Ireland has no equivalent register. French-source documents that already carry a traducteur assermenté stamp are accepted here, but for submissions to Irish authorities we produce a certified translation with a signed Statement of Accuracy: that is the format ISD, the Irish Courts Service and Irish universities actually require.

French administrative documents follow strict layouts: the mairie extrait d'acte, the livret de famille pages, the Cerfa forms and the bulletin n°3 casier judiciaire all have canonical structures we replicate faithfully in English so Irish reviewers can align field-for-field with the French original. Belgian and Luxembourg civil-registry formats differ subtly (rijksregisternummer, matricule) and we handle each natively; Canadian (Quebec) documents such as the certificat de naissance from the Directeur de l'état civil are recognised on sight.

Common Ireland use-cases we deliver every week: EU freedom-of-movement paperwork for French, Belgian and Luxembourg citizens moving to Dublin's tech corridor (Google, Meta, Salesforce, TikTok, Stripe); Stamp 4 and citizenship applications; Erasmus and graduate-programme transfers between the French Grandes Écoles / universités and TCD, UCD, DCU, UCC and University of Galway; birth and marriage registration in Ireland from French mairie originals; HSE-facing medical records; Certificat de coutume for cross-border estate and family matters.

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What Is a Statement of Accuracy?

Ireland does not have a "sworn translator" system. Instead, certified translations carry a signed Statement of Accuracy from the professional translator. This statement confirms:

"I, [Translator Name], a professional translator competent in both French and English, hereby certify that the above is a true, accurate and complete translation of the attached original document. Company registration: Tatkowski Interpreting & Recruitment Limited (CRO 803790). Date: [date]. Contact: contact@tatkowski.com."

This format is accepted by ISD (formerly INIS), the Department of Justice, Passport Office, HSE and all Irish courts. No stamp or registry is required under Irish law. Where the Irish institution asks for an apostille, that step is applied to the original French document at the Cour d'Appel or Bureau des Légalisations, not to our translation.