Notarized and Certified Danish Translation - Danish Authorities After 2016 and the Georgian Notary

Denmark without translatører: what "certified" means now

Until 2016 Denmark had statsautoriserede translatører og tolke, authorized by the Erhvervsstyrelsen after a university examination, and their stamp was the standard for official translations. The authorization was abolished by the deregulation law of 2015, with effect from 1 January 2016, and the title no longer exists in law. Danish authorities adapted pragmatically: most accept translations from translation agencies and professional translators accompanied by a signed certification of accuracy with the translator's or agency's details, and where legal certainty matters - court proceedings, registrations at the Familieretshuset and the CPR, some Skat matters - they require the translation to be notarized by a Danish notarius publicus at the byret, or made abroad and notarized there with an apostille. Some Danish translators hold membership of Translatørforeningen or a chartered status, which authorities recognize as a quality signal. There has never been a Danish translator of any status for Georgian, and Georgian documents historically went through English. Georgia has the translation notarized by a Georgian notary, who certifies the signature of a translator registered as competent in Danish.

We translate the Georgian original into Danish or English here, notarize it and apostille the original and, where a Danish office asks, the notarized translation; because Denmark accepts English so widely, many files are best delivered in English, which both the applicant and the Danish caseworker can read. A Danish translation with an agency certification is, from Georgia's point of view, a foreign document; for use in Georgia the translation must be notarized here.

Familieretshuset: marriage in Denmark and registration of foreign marriages

Since 2019 every marriage application in Denmark involving a partner who is not a Danish or Nordic citizen or permanent resident is examined by the Familieretshuset, which checks the documents, screens for marriages of convenience and issues a prøvelsesattest (certificate of marital capacity) valid for four months, after which the chosen municipality performs the ceremony; the application is made online with a fee. For a Georgian partner the Familieretshuset requires the passport, proof of legal stay in Denmark or the Schengen area for the wedding date (a visa, a residence permit in another EU country, or visa-free entry for Georgian citizens), a Georgian certificate of marital status from the Public Service Hall issued recently and apostilled, and, if previously married, the divorce decision or death certificate, also apostilled; the Familieretshuset accepts documents in Danish, English, German and the Nordic languages, and translations must be made by a translator with a certification. We translate the Georgian set into Danish or English, notarize it and, because the Familieretshuset's guidance refers to apostilled translations for some countries, apostille the notarized translation where asked. After the wedding, the Danish vielsesattest is apostilled by the Udenrigsministeriet, translated into Georgian and notarized here for the Georgian Civil Registry. Georgians registering a marriage concluded elsewhere with the Danish authorities, changing names after marriage, or divorcing in Denmark use the same agency with the same translation requirements.

SIRI and Udlændingestyrelsen: work, study and family permits

Styrelsen for International Rekruttering og Integration (SIRI) decides residence and work permits for third-country nationals under the Pay Limit Scheme, the Positive List for people with higher education and for skilled work, the Fast-track scheme for certified companies, the researcher and PhD schemes, the establishment card and the student route, and Udlændingestyrelsen decides family reunification, permanent residence and asylum. Applications are made online with the employer's or applicant's contribution and biometrics recorded at the Norwegian embassy or a visa application center handling Danish cases in Georgia. Documents in Georgian must be translated into Danish or English; SIRI's checklists ask for diplomas for Positive List cases, the employment contract, and for family reunification the apostilled marriage and birth certificates, proof of the relationship and, for spouses, the Danish partner's documentation. We assemble the translated set to match the checklist for your scheme, in English where the applicant and employer prefer it, with the transliteration of your name identical across every document.

Borgerservice, the CPR, Skat and the courts

On arrival, a Georgian with a residence permit registers at the municipal Borgerservice and receives a CPR number, the key to everything in Denmark from MitID to the doctor; for family relationships to be recorded, apostilled marriage and birth certificates with translations are presented, and the Familieretshuset registers foreign marriages and civil status changes in the CPR. Skat registers foreigners for tax with the same identity documents and, for treaty relief and residence questions, asks for Georgian tax residency certificates translated. Danish courts (byretter, landsretter) require translations for foreign documents in proceedings, and the notarius publicus at the byret notarizes signatures and, in practice, translations for use abroad; the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science accepts certified translations for its vurdering of foreign qualifications, and the Styrelsen for Patientsikkerhed requires translations of diplomas and practice records by a professional translator for healthcare authorization. For all of these we prepare the Danish or English text, notarized and apostilled where the office requires.

Danish documents for Georgian authorities

Any Danish-language document used in Georgia must be translated into Georgian and notarized here. The most frequent are pas and kørekort (translated from a photo, no visit needed), fødsels- og dåbsattester and fødsels- og navneattester from the church registers (which keep Danish civil registration outside Southern Jutland), vielsesattester from the municipality, personattester and bopælsattester from the CPR, straffeattester from politiet for residence permits, eksamensbeviser for work permits and recognition, udskrifter from the CVR (Erhvervsstyrelsen) for company registration, vedtægter and fuldmagter, ansættelseskontrakter and kontoudtog for proof of income, and attester from Skat, Udbetaling Danmark and the kommune. Danish public documents must carry the Udenrigsministeriet's apostille before the translation is notarized. We also offer e-Notary certification with a qualified electronic signature.

Certified translation without notarization, and when it is enough

Not every recipient needs the notary. Danish universities for admission, employers, landlords, insurers, SIRI for most work and study cases and online portals accept a certified translation with our agency stamp and translator statement, which is quicker and cheaper. Familieretshuset for marriage, the CPR registration of family status, Danish courts, the Patient Safety Authority, Georgian courts, registries, the Public Service Hall and banks do not. Tell us who will receive the document and we recommend the right level; a certified translation can be upgraded to a notarized and apostilled one later without re-translating. For clients who submit everything online - the Familieretshuset's application, SIRI's portal, university portals - we issue digitally signed PDFs, and we print, stamp and courier the same file when paper is required.

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