Meeting all your legal translation needs

We translate the full range of legal documents you may require, from certificates to contracts, deeds, social pacts, petitions, notifications, and rulings, among others, in more than 600 language combinations.

What’s more, the diversity of our team means we can operate within all areas of the law confidently and accurately, our legal translation services spanning litigation, commercial, labour, family, international, tax, criminal law and more.

We provide certified legal translation services

Translations can be certified in various ways, depending on what the certified legal translation will be used for.

Inpokulis provides the following types of certifications to ensure your needs are met:

✓ Certificate issued by Inpokulis on headed paper stamped by the company;

✓ Notarial certification;

✓ Certification by a lawyer or other authorised entity for documents where notarial certification is not required;

✓ Apostille for documents issued in Portugal.

An Apostille is an official certificate that authenticates the origin of a public document (e.g., a birth, marriage or death certificate, a judgement, an extract of a register or a notarial attestation) and that it can be recognised and used in another country under the Convention of Hague (Check the countries here Which countries accept an Apostille?)

Apostilles can only be issued for documents issued in one country party to the Apostille Convention and that are to be used in another country which is also a party to the Convention.

You will need an Apostille if all of the following apply:

• the country where the document was issued is party to the Apostille Convention; and
• the country in which the document is to be used is party to the Apostille Convention; and
• the law of the country where the document was issued considers it to be a public document; and
• the country in which the document is to be used requires an Apostille in order to recognise it as a foreign public document.

An Apostille may never be used for the recognition of a document in the country where that document was issued – Apostilles are strictly for the use of public documents abroad!

The Apostille only applies to public documents issued by a State which has taken part of the Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, done at the Hague on 5th October 1961, to be presented before another State which has also taken part of the Convention.

The documents to be apostilled need to be original and in the case of criminal records, marriage certificates and birth certificates should be less than 3 months old.

✓ Birth Certificates

✓ Marriage Certificates

✓ Death Certificates

✓ Baptismal Certificates and other church records

✓ Apostille Legalisation of certificates and other documents

✓ Consular Legalisation of certificates and other documents

✓ Certified English translations

✓ Criminal Record Certificate

✓ Last Will Certificate and Testament

✓ Property Certificates: Find out who is the current owner of real estate

✓ Search of Current and Past-ownership of Real Estate Property

✓ Verification of authenticity of civil certificates

✓ Verification of Marital Status

✓ Duplicates of Divorce Sentences and Settlements

✓ Genealogical Research

You can find all the official information about where and how to request an Apostille in Portugal here: https://en.ministeriopublico.pt/perguntas-frequentes/apostile

The following countries recognise and issue Apostilles for the international legalisation of documents.

These are collectively known as ‘member countries of the Hague Apostille Convention’:

Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, China (Macau & Hong Kong), Colombia, Cook Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Republic of, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Republic of, Monaco, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niue, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Serbia and Montenegro, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, FYR of Macedonia, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela.

The updated list of these countries is available at the Hague Conference website.