Ukrainian-Georgian Translation Services in Tbilisi - Fast, Notarized and Free of Unnecessary Stamps

Ukrainian in Georgia: a community, a treaty and a lot of paperwork

Ukrainians have lived and worked in Georgia for decades, and since February 2022 tens of thousands more have arrived - families, IT specialists, students, small business owners and retirees. Every one of them meets the Georgian document system: a residence permit at the Public Service Development Agency, a child's enrollment at school, a bank account, an individual entrepreneur registration, a lease, a marriage, sometimes a court case. Georgians with ties to Ukraine - who studied in Kyiv or Kharkiv, married in Odesa, own property in Ukraine or worked there - need the reverse: Georgian documents translated into Ukrainian for Ukrainian registries, courts, universities and pension funds.

What makes this pair unusual is the legal framework. Georgia and Ukraine have a bilateral treaty on legal assistance under which many official documents issued in one country are accepted in the other without apostille or consular legalization. This saves time and money, but it is applied unevenly by individual offices, and Ukrainian documents issued since 1991 come in three layers - Ukrainian-only, bilingual Ukrainian-Russian, and now purely digital through Diia. Our Ukrainian team, native speakers registered with the notary at David Agmashenebeli Ave 117, has translated all three for years and knows which Georgian office accepts what.

Translation directions for Ukrainian

• Ukrainian → Georgian: passports (foreign and internal ID-card), driving licenses, свідоцтва про народження and про шлюб from ДРАЦС, довідка про несудимість from the МВС, diplomas and додатки до диплома, атестати, court decisions, витяги from the ЄДР, статути, довіреності, 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 → Ukrainian: Georgian civil status certificates, court rulings, Public Registry extracts, diplomas and medical records for Ukrainian ДРАЦС offices, courts, universities, the Pension Fund and employers, notarized and apostilled or treaty-exempt depending on the document.
• Ukrainian ↔ Russian and Ukrainian ↔ English: direct translation for older documents in Russian, for IT companies with English-language operations and for Ukrainian clients whose Georgian counterparts work in English.

Older Ukrainian documents - Soviet-era certificates and 1990s documents in Russian or bilingual form - are translated from whichever language they are in, and we note the issuing republic where Georgian authorities need it.

Apostille or not: the Georgia-Ukraine legal assistance treaty

Under the treaty between Georgia and Ukraine on legal assistance and legal relations in civil and criminal matters, documents issued or certified by the competent authorities of one country and bearing an official seal are to be accepted in the other without legalization. In practice, Georgian offices apply this to most civil status certificates, court decisions and notarial acts from Ukraine, and Ukrainian offices apply it to Georgian equivalents. However, individual officers sometimes still request an apostille, particularly for education documents and for documents used in bank compliance, and both countries are Hague members so an apostille is always available as a fallback. Our approach is practical: we tell you which office you are dealing with and what it has actually accepted recently, and we never send you for an apostille you do not need. Where the treaty applies, a Ukrainian document goes straight to translation and notarization in Tbilisi, usually within 1-2 hours.

Pricing and turnaround for Ukrainian-Georgian translation

Ukrainian is priced at the standard per-page tariff (1,800 characters with spaces), with fixed prices for passports, driving licenses, standard ДРАЦС certificates and довідки. Bundles of three or more personal documents - the typical residence permit set - are discounted. Notary fees and, where needed, apostille state fees are itemized separately.

• Passport, driving license, single certificate or довідка: 1-2 hours, notarized.
• Residence permit set (passport, довідка про несудимість, bank statement, lease): same day.
• Diploma with додаток: same day or next morning.
• Contracts, статути, court files: 1-3 business days.
• Apostille on a Georgian document for Ukraine, where required: add 1-5 business days.

How Ukrainian clients order, in Tbilisi and across Georgia

Most Ukrainian clients write to us on Telegram or Viber, in Ukrainian, with a photo of the document or a Diia PDF. The quote comes back within 15 minutes. 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 original, so you come to Agmashenebeli 117 once, when the translation is already prepared, and leave with the notarized document. Batumi has the second-largest Ukrainian community in Georgia, and clients there, in Kutaisi and in other regions send originals by courier while our regional offices are being renovated, receiving the finished documents back the same way. Clients in Ukraine or elsewhere in Europe who need a Georgian document arrange for us to collect it from a relative, and we translate, notarize, apostille where needed and ship by courier.

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