Croatian-Georgian Translation Services in Tbilisi - For Croatia's Coast, Construction Sites and Schengen Permits

Croatian and Georgian: two coasts, one labor market

Croatia's Adriatic tourism season, its construction boom and its shipyards run on foreign workers, and since 2021 the Ministry of the Interior (MUP) has issued record numbers of dozvole za boravak i rad to third-country nationals - Nepalese, Filipinos, Indians and, in growing numbers, Georgians, who arrive for hotel and restaurant work in Dalmatia and Istria, for construction in Zagreb and on the coast, for driving and logistics, and for skilled positions in shipbuilding and IT. Croatian universities in Zagreb, Split, Rijeka and Osijek admit Georgian students, Croatian companies in construction, energy and IT work in Georgia, and Croatian tourists find in Georgia a coast, mountains and wine culture that remind them of home. Each connection produces documents in Croatian that Georgian authorities need in Georgian, and documents in Georgian that Croatian authorities need in Croatian.

Croatia certifies translations through stalni sudski tumači appointed by the županijski sudovi (county courts), whose stamp gives a translation official value, and Croatian offices require this form for foreign documents; no sudski tumač for Georgian exists. Croatian is written in Latin script only, in the ijekavian standard, and a Croatian office notices a Serbian ekavian text. Georgia has the notarized translation. Our Croatian team at David Agmashenebeli Ave 117 - Georgian sworn translators with Croatian training, native Croatian editors and a partner sudski tumač in Zagreb for re-certification - connects the two systems.

Translation directions for Croatian

• Georgian → Croatian: rodni listovi, vjenčani listovi, uvjerenje o nekažnjavanju equivalents, diplomas and prijepisi ocjena, Georgian court decisions, Public Registry extracts, medical records and contracts leaving Georgia for Croatia. Notarized in Tbilisi and apostilled, prepared for sudski tumač re-certification.
• Croatian → Georgian: putovnice and osobne iskaznice, vozačke dozvole, rodni and vjenčani listovi, domovnice, uvjerenje o nekažnjavanju, diplomas, izvadci iz sudskog registra, društveni ugovori, punomoći, ugovori o radu and izvodi iz banke entering the Georgian system, always notarized in Georgia. Passports and driving licenses are translated from a photo without a visit.
• Croatian ↔ Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin: conversion between standards where an office insists on its own, and direct translation to and from English, German and Italian for Croatia's tourism and business partners.

Bilingual Georgian-Croatian templates for the standard civil status certificates and House of Justice extracts allow us to deliver a single certificate within 1-2 hours.

Which certification Croatian authorities accept

Details are on the notarized and certified Croatian translation page.

Pricing and turnaround for Croatian-Georgian translation

Croatian is priced at the standard per-page tariff (1,800 characters with spaces, the Croatian kartica), with fixed prices for passports, osobne iskaznice, driving licenses and civil status certificates. Work permit sets and recognition packets are quoted as a bundle, and employer groups at per-worker rates. Notary fees, apostille state fees, sudski tumač re-certification and courier charges to Croatia are itemized separately.

• Passport, osobna iskaznica, vozačka dozvola, one certificate: 1-2 hours, notarized.
• Dozvola za boravak i rad file: one to two business days plus re-certification.
• Recognition or university packet (diploma, prijepis ocjena): 2-3 business days.
• Contracts, društveni ugovori, court files: 2-4 business days.
• Apostille on a Georgian document: add 1-5 business days.

Ordering from Tbilisi, from Croatia or from anywhere in Georgia

Clients in Tbilisi send a photo on WhatsApp or Viber 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. Clients in Zagreb, Split, Rijeka or Dubrovnik who need a Georgian document usually have the original with family in Georgia; we collect it, translate, notarize, apostille, arrange sudski tumač re-certification and ship by DHL with tracking. Employers and agencies send us candidate groups, which we process as one project. Clients in Batumi, Kutaisi and the regions send originals by courier and receive the finished documents back while our regional offices are being renovated. Enquiries are answered in Croatian or English.

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