Belarusian-Georgian Translation Services in Tbilisi - For the Belarusian Community, IT Relocators and Companies in Georgia

Belarusian and Georgian: a community that arrived fast

Georgia had a Belarusian presence before 2020 - tourists, students, mixed families, the trade in Belarusian tractors, dairy and textiles - but the wave that followed the 2020 events and the 2022 war changed the scale. Belarusian IT companies and their employees, many of them residents of the Hi-Tech Park, relocated to Tbilisi and Batumi in numbers; entrepreneurs opened businesses; families brought children into Georgian and international schools; and Georgia's visa-free year and easy company registration made it one of the two or three main Belarusian destinations alongside Poland and Lithuania. Belarusians now run cafés, coworkings, clinics and agencies in Tbilisi, work remotely for European and American companies through Georgian entities, and appear at the Public Service Development Agency, the Revenue Service, banks, notaries and schools every day with documents from Belarus that need Georgian translations.

Belarus's document system is straightforward in form and complicated in practice. Documents are issued in Russian or Belarusian - both official, with Russian dominant in practice and passports trilingual - and Belarus is a Hague member with apostilles issued by different ministries depending on the document. But since September 2023 Belarusian embassies and consulates have stopped issuing and renewing passports for citizens abroad, and Belarusian law has limited the recognition of powers of attorney and certain other notarial acts executed abroad, so that a Belarusian in Tbilisi who needs to sell a Minsk apartment, renew a passport or obtain a certificate from home faces real constraints. Georgia has the notarized translation. Our Belarusian team at David Agmashenebeli Ave 117 - Georgian sworn translators for Russian and Belarusian, native Belarusian editors and years of experience with the community's files - knows both what Georgia needs and what Belarus will accept.

Translation directions, Belarusian and Russian

• Georgian → Russian or Belarusian: Georgian birth certificates of children born here, marriage certificates, residence permits, Public Registry extracts, company documents, diplomas, court decisions, medical records and contracts leaving Georgia for Belarus or for other countries that read Russian. Notarized in Tbilisi and apostilled. Belarusian offices accept Russian; Belarusian is produced on request.
• Belarusian or Russian → Georgian: passports, driving licenses, ZAGS certificates of birth, marriage, divorce and death, certificates of no criminal record, diplomas and transcripts, employment records (трудовая книжка), company documents from the Unified State Register, powers of attorney, bank statements and pension documents entering the Georgian system, always notarized in Georgia. Passports and driving licenses are translated from a photo without a visit.
• Russian ↔ English: for the many Belarusian IT professionals whose employers, clients and banks work in English.

Belarusian names are transliterated into Georgian by consistent rules aligned with the passport, which carries the name in Belarusian, Russian and a Latin transliteration based on the Belarusian form (so that Уладзімір / Владимир appears as Uladzimir, not Vladimir), and we anchor the Georgian spelling to the passport's Latin line while noting the Russian form where a Georgian office compares against a Russian-language document; the personal number is reproduced exactly.

Which certification Belarusian and Georgian authorities accept

Details are on the notarized and certified Belarusian translation page.

Pricing and turnaround for Belarusian-Georgian translation

Belarusian and Russian-language Belarusian documents are priced at the standard per-page tariff (1,800 characters with spaces) with fixed prices for passports, driving licenses, ZAGS certificates, certificates of no criminal record and employment records, and relocation packets (family documents, diplomas, employment documents) at a bundle price. Notary fees, apostille state fees and courier charges are itemized separately.

• Passport, driving license, one certificate: 1-2 hours, notarized.
• Residence permit file, family file, school enrollment set: same day.
• Diploma and transcript packet: 1-2 business days.
• Company documents, employment contracts, bank compliance files: 1-3 business days.
• Apostille on a Georgian document: add 1-5 business days.

Ordering from Tbilisi, from Batumi, from Belarus or from anywhere in Georgia

Clients in Tbilisi send a photo on Telegram or WhatsApp for a quote within 15 minutes and bring the original to Agmashenebeli 117, near Marjanishvili Metro, where the translation is notarized while they wait. Passports and driving licenses are translated from the photo alone and delivered by courier, without a visit. Belarusians in Batumi, Kutaisi and elsewhere send originals by courier and receive the finished documents back while our regional offices are being renovated. Documents still in Belarus are obtained by a relative there, apostilled at the competent ministry and sent by courier; we translate on arrival. Georgian documents for use in Belarus are apostilled and translated here and carried or couriered. Enquiries are answered in Russian, Belarusian or English.

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