Certified DNI and Spanish passport translation
Identity documents translated and certified for UK institutions that need the Spanish text in English — with every field, code and annotation accounted for.
Per document, VAT included
£39.95
- Delivered within 24 hours by email as a PDF
- Signed, stamped certificate with online verification
- Additional certified hard copy +£12.50
Price is per document, VAT included. Same price whichever document it is.
Order your translation- Rejected on a certification point? We redo it free, then refund you.
- A real translator signs it — name and CIOL/ITI number printed on the page.
- In your inbox tomorrow, usually sooner.
- Your university can check it's genuine in about ten seconds.
- Files encrypted, never used to train anything, deleted after six months.
Specific requirements for this document.
- Both sides of the DNI, or the full biographical page of the passport, with every printed field translated and labelled.
- The document number, support number, machine-readable zone and validity dates reproduced exactly.
- Any residence, NIE or immigration annotation, including endorsements printed on the reverse.
- A signed Statement of Accuracy identifying the document type, its number and its issue date.
You don't pay for it twice.
Tell us at checkout who's receiving it. If they refuse it over the certification itself, we redo it free — and if the second attempt still doesn't land, you get every penny back.
Identity documents look like the easiest thing to translate and are the easiest to get subtly wrong. The fields are terse, the abbreviations are Spanish administrative shorthand, and the codes carry meaning that a reader cannot infer. A certified translation of a DNI is useful precisely because it labels every field in English and reproduces the codes without alteration.
The number that trips people up is the support number (número de soporte), printed separately from the DNI number and used for online verification. It is not the same field and should never be merged with it. The same applies to the NIE, which follows a different format from the DNI and identifies a foreign national rather than a Spanish citizen — mislabelling one as the other creates an inconsistency across your application bundle.
The machine-readable zone at the foot of a passport page contains a compressed version of the biographical data. We reproduce it verbatim rather than expanding it, because it is a checkable string, and any change makes it fail verification.
Not everyone needs this document translated. UK institutions frequently accept a passport as-is because the biographical page is already partly in English. Check the requirement before ordering — we would rather tell you that you do not need it than take the payment.
And the certification itself
Whatever the document, the certificate that travels with it carries the same four elements UKVI asks for: a confirmation that it is a true and accurate translation; the date; the reviewer's full name and signature; and our contact details. On top of that it names the reviewing translator's professional body and membership number, and links to a verification page the receiving institution can check without contacting you.
Questions about this document
Do I actually need my passport translated?
Often not. Many UK bodies accept a Spanish passport as-is because the biographical page is bilingual. Check what was asked for first — if the requirement is unclear, send it over and we will tell you honestly whether a certified translation adds anything.
Is a DNI the same as an NIE?
No. The DNI identifies a Spanish citizen; the NIE is the identification number issued to a foreign national in Spain. They follow different formats and we label them distinctly, because conflating them creates inconsistencies across an application.
Do you translate both sides of the DNI?
Yes. The reverse carries parental names, place of birth, address and the machine-readable zone, all of which are part of the document. A one-sided translation is an incomplete one.