Vietnamese-Georgian Translation Services in Tbilisi - With the Legalization Chain Vietnam Requires

Vietnamese in Georgia: students, workers, traders and a growing community

Vietnamese speakers are a small but fast-growing group in Georgia. Vietnamese students enroll in English-language medical, dental and IT programs at Georgian universities; Vietnamese workers arrive under employment contracts in construction, agriculture, hospitality and manufacturing; Vietnamese restaurants and trading businesses have opened in Tbilisi and Batumi; and Georgian wine, mineral water, hazelnuts and tourism are finding customers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Each of these produces documents in Vietnamese that Georgian authorities need in Georgian - passports, giấy khai sinh, lý lịch tư pháp, bằng tốt nghiệp, hợp đồng lao động - and documents in Georgian that Vietnamese authorities need in Vietnamese.

Two things make this pair harder than most. Vietnamese uses a Latin alphabet with tone marks and diacritics that must be reproduced exactly, and transliterated into Georgian consistently, because Nguyễn, Nguyên and Nguyen are not the same name to a registrar. And Vietnam is outside the Hague Apostille Convention, so legalization runs through ministries and embassies rather than a single stamp. Our Vietnamese team consists of native speakers registered with the notary at David Agmashenebeli Ave 117, and we have built the legalization routes that the pair requires.

Translation directions for Vietnamese

• Vietnamese → Georgian: passports and căn cước công dân, driving licenses, giấy khai sinh, giấy chứng nhận kết hôn, lý lịch tư pháp, bằng tốt nghiệp and bảng điểm, giấy đăng ký kinh doanh, điều lệ công ty, giấy ủy quyền, hợp đồng lao động, 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 → Vietnamese: Georgian civil status certificates, diplomas, court rulings, Public Registry extracts and medical records for Vietnamese authorities, universities, employers and families, notarized and consular-legalized.
• Vietnamese ↔ English: direct translation for Vietnamese students and companies whose Georgian counterparts work in English, for university admissions and for corporate files, without a Georgian intermediate step.

Vietnamese documents are frequently issued as bilingual Vietnamese-English extracts; we translate the Vietnamese original as the authoritative text and reconcile any differences with the English column.

Legalization: why Vietnam needs a chain, not a stamp

Because Vietnam is not a party to the Hague Convention, an apostille means nothing there and a Vietnamese document cannot carry one. Instead, a Vietnamese public document for use in Georgia is first legalized by the Consular Department of Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Cục Lãnh sự) or a provincial Department of Foreign Affairs, and then by the Georgian diplomatic mission accredited to Vietnam; a Georgian document for use in Vietnam is first certified by the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then legalized by the Vietnamese embassy accredited to Georgia, which is located outside Tbilisi. Only after legalization is the translation notarized. We handle both chains through partners so you never need to travel, and we tell you at the outset how long the chain will take for your document, which is usually one to four weeks. Passports and driving licenses are exempt from all of this and are translated from a photo in 1-2 hours.

Pricing and turnaround for Vietnamese-Georgian translation

Vietnamese is priced at the standard per-page tariff (1,800 characters with spaces) with a modest supplement for the rarity of the pair, and fixed prices for passports, driving licenses and standard certificates. Notary fees, legalization fees and courier charges to Vietnam are itemized separately, and legalization is quoted as a package once we know the document and the route.

• Passport, driving license, single certificate: 1-2 hours, notarized.
• Student admission or residence permit set: same day once legalized originals are with us.
• Diploma with transcript: same day or next morning.
• Contracts, company documents, court files: 2-4 business days.
• Consular legalization chain, either direction: one to four weeks depending on the embassy.

How Vietnamese clients order, in Tbilisi and from Vietnam

Clients in Tbilisi send a photo on WhatsApp, Zalo or Telegram and receive a quote within 15 minutes, in Vietnamese or English. 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. Students at universities in Tbilisi, Batumi and Kutaisi, and workers on sites across Georgia, send originals by courier and receive the finished documents back the same way. Clients in Vietnam 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 DHL to Hanoi, Da Nang or Ho Chi Minh City with tracking.

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