Persian-Georgian Translation Services in Tbilisi - For Iran, Afghanistan and the Farsi-Speaking Community

Persian in Georgia: a large community and a demanding paper trail

Iranian citizens have been coming to Georgia for two decades as students, investors, traders, restaurateurs, IT specialists and families seeking a base closer to Europe, and Georgia's visa-free regime and proximity keep the flow steady. Iranian trucks carry cargo through Georgia to the Black Sea and Turkey; Iranian companies trade in construction materials, food, carpets and petrochemicals; Iranian students fill medical and engineering faculties; and Iranian families buy apartments in Tbilisi and Batumi. Afghan Dari speakers, a smaller group, arrive as students and through humanitarian routes. Every one of these people meets the Georgian document system with papers in Persian script, dated by the Solar Hijri calendar, and issued by a country whose documents cannot carry an apostille.

That combination makes Persian one of the most technically demanding pairs we handle. Names must be transliterated from Persian script consistently across every document; dates must be converted from 1403 to 2024 without error; and each public document must pass through the Iranian Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then the Georgian embassy in Tehran before a Georgian notary can certify its translation. Our Persian team consists of native speakers registered with the notary at David Agmashenebeli Ave 117, and we have run the legalization chain for years.

Translation directions for Persian

• Persian → Georgian: passports, the shenasnameh (identity booklet) and kart-e melli (national card), driving licenses, marriage and divorce documents (sanad-e ezdevaj, sanad-e talagh), the police clearance certificate (gavahi-ye adam-e su-e pishineh), diplomas and transcripts (rizneh-ye nomarat), the official gazette (rouznameh-ye rasmi) and company registration documents, powers of attorney (vekalatnameh), bank statements and medical records entering the Georgian system, always notarized in Georgia. Passports and driving licenses are translated from a photo without a visit.
• Georgian → Persian: Georgian civil status certificates, diplomas, court rulings, Public Registry extracts and medical records for Iranian authorities, universities, courts and families, notarized and consular-legalized.
• Persian ↔ English and Persian ↔ Russian: direct translation for Iranian companies with English-language operations, for university admissions, and for Russian-speaking counterparts.
• Dari (Afghanistan): handled by our Persian team with attention to Dari vocabulary, Afghan document formats and the tazkira identity document.

Legalization: why Iran needs a chain, not a stamp, and how we run it

Iran is not a party to the Hague Convention, so an Iranian document cannot carry an apostille and a Georgian apostille means nothing in Iran. Instead, an Iranian public document for use in Georgia is translated by an official translator in Iran (darolttarjomeh-ye rasmi), stamped by the Ministry of Justice and then by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and finally legalized by the Georgian Embassy in Tehran; once in Tbilisi, the whole bundle is translated into Georgian and notarized here. A Georgian document for use in Iran is translated into Persian and notarized here, certified by the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and legalized by the Iranian Embassy in Tbilisi. We manage both chains through partners in Tehran and our own submissions in Tbilisi, and we tell you at the outset how long each will take. Passports, driving licenses and private documents such as bank statements are exempt and are translated directly in 1-2 hours.

Pricing and turnaround for Persian-Georgian translation

Persian is priced at the standard per-page tariff (1,800 characters with spaces), with fixed prices for passports, kart-e melli, driving licenses and standard certificates; shenasnameh translations are priced by the number of pages with entries. Notary fees, legalization fees and courier charges are itemized separately, and legalization is quoted as a package once we know the document and the route.

• Passport, kart-e melli, driving license, one certificate: 1-2 hours, notarized.
• Residence permit, student or bank set: same day once legalized originals are with us.
• Diploma with transcript: same day or next morning.
• Company documents, contracts, court files: 2-4 business days.
• Consular legalization chain, either direction: one to four weeks depending on the ministries and embassies.

How Persian-speaking clients order, in Tbilisi and from Iran

Clients in Tbilisi send a photo on WhatsApp or Telegram and receive a quote within 15 minutes, in Persian. For passports and driving licenses that is the end of the visit-free process: pay by card or transfer, and the courier brings the notarized translation. For other documents the notary must see the legalized original, so you come to Agmashenebeli 117 once, when the translation is already prepared. Clients in Batumi, Kutaisi and other cities send originals by courier and receive the finished documents back while our regional offices are being renovated. Clients in Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan or Rasht who need a Georgian document - a diploma from a Georgian university, a marriage certificate, a court decision - arrange for us to collect it, and we translate, notarize, run the legalization chain and ship by courier or hand it to a trusted carrier, since courier services to Iran are limited.

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