What actually happens between uploading a document and holding a certified translation you can verify.

1. Get Instant Fixed Price

Upload your document, or paste the text straight in, on any service page. SmartQuote reads it: works out the document type, counts the pages, detects the language, and shows a fixed price immediately. No "we'll get back to you within 24 hours" and no hidden add-ons appearing later. What you see on screen is what you pay.

2. Pay securely

Checkout runs through Revolut. Card payment, a receipt straight to your inbox, and the order moves into production the moment it clears.

3. A vetted linguist takes it on

A certified translator is assigned from our panel, matched to what the document actually needs: a legal contract doesn't go to the same person as a medical discharge summary. Every linguist on the panel was vetted before joining, referenced against real prior certified work, and is NDA-bound on every job. The translation is checked against our Statement of Accuracy checklist before it leaves us:

• Pagination match: the translated document mirrors the layout and page count of the source, so an official can flick between the two without getting lost.
• Signed translator declaration: a formal statement on Tatkowski letterhead confirming the translation is a complete and accurate rendering of the original.
• Professional stamp: applied to every page of the certified output.
• Seal notation: any official seal, stamp or watermark on the source document is noted in the translation, not silently dropped.

This is the same checklist referenced in full on the certified translation page.

4. Delivered to your document drawer, not just your inbox

You receive a certified PDF by email, ready to print or submit online. The same file is also saved in your own account at drawer.tatkowski.com, a secure client portal that holds every certified document you've ever ordered from us. Log in with your email (a one-time code is sent, no password to remember) and everything you've ordered is there: order history, delivery status, and the files themselves. That matters later: if you need a second copy of the same birth certificate translation for a different application 18 months on, you log back in rather than paying for the translation again. Hard copy by post, standard or registered, is available on request where the receiving authority needs an original ink stamp.

5. Independent verification, not just our word for it

Every certified translation carries a reference (starting TIR-) that resolves at validate.tatkowski.com, with a QR code on the document itself for anyone checking it on the spot. The receiving embassy, university admissions office, employer, solicitor or HSE consultant enters the reference (or scans the code) and gets an independent, real-time confirmation of the document type, language pair and date issued, without having to take the applicant's word for it. The public verification page stays live for 90 days from the date we issue the document, which covers the window most receiving authorities actually check it in; if proof is needed after that, contact us directly and we'll confirm it for the recipient.

6. If it needs a tweak, that's on us

Standard delivery covers most cases as they are. Where a receiving embassy, university admissions office, solicitor or HSE consultant needs a page reformatted for their own portal, a specific address block added, or a copy resent somewhere else, we handle it. Not a new invoice, not a delay: it's fixed at no charge until the document is accepted on file.

Every certified translation we ship carries a Statement of Accuracy on Tatkowski letterhead, signed by the translator. The format below is what Irish authorities (ISD, Passport Office, GRO, HSE, Revenue), Irish courts (District, Circuit, High) and Irish third-level institutions (TCD, UCD, DCU, UCC) actually work from:

"I, [Translator Name], a professional translator competent in both [source language] and English, hereby certify that the above is a true, accurate and complete translation of the attached original document. Provided by Tatkowski Interpreting & Recruitment Limited, Companies Registration Office of Ireland number 803790. Date: [date]. Contact: contact@tatkowski.com."

Each element on that block earns its place with a specific receiving authority:

• Translator name and competence declaration: what ISD, courts and universities look for first. It confirms a named natural person takes responsibility, not an anonymous agency.
• Company registration (CRO 803790): gives any caseworker a public register they can check on cro.ie to confirm the certifying company exists and is in good standing.
• Date: some applications reject translations older than 3 months. The date lets the recipient calculate that themselves.
• Contact: if the caseworker needs to ask a follow-up question, they can, without going through the applicant.

What we deliberately don't do: claim ITI, CIOL or ISO 17100 membership. We're 7 months old (incorporated December 2025) and we're not going to inflate the certification to make it look older than it is. The Statement of Accuracy as-written is what Irish authorities accept; we don't need to dress it up.

Most jobs run without incident. Where they don't, the escalation path is short. Reply to the delivery email or WhatsApp +353 83 871 0861. During Irish business hours you'll get a substantive reply the same day; outside hours, first thing the next working day. If a receiving authority queries the format, wording or a specific translation choice, tell us what they asked and we'll amend and reissue at no charge, sending the revised copy to any additional email address the authority wants it at.

The one situation that genuinely calls for a refund rather than a fix is if we can't source a suitably qualified translator for a language or specialism at all: we'd rather return your money and be honest about it than ship a translation the wrong person produced. Delay on its own is not a refund case; a missed deliverable that we can't recover with reasonable endeavours is.

"Certified translation" isn't a single fixed format: what an authority expects varies by country, so the paperwork we attach varies too.

• Ireland: our Statement of Accuracy format is accepted by the Immigration Service Delivery (ISD), the Passport Office, and Irish courts. No sworn-translator register exists in Ireland the way it does in some EU states, so the signed declaration plus professional stamp is the format Irish authorities actually work with.
• United Kingdom: UK courts and tribunals work from a Statement of Truth under Civil Procedure Rule 32.14, which we attach for court-bound work; UKVI and Home Office submissions use the same Statement of Accuracy format as our other certified output. Which one applies depends on where the document is going, and we confirm that with you at quote stage rather than guessing.

We don't hold a formal accreditation-body membership (no ISO 17100, no ITI, no CIOL) and we're not going to claim one we don't have. What you're actually relying on is the Statement of Accuracy on the document itself, the independent check at validate.tatkowski.com, the CRO 803790 registered company standing behind it, and free reformatting or reissue if an authority queries the wording or format.