Official UK translations for Home Office, Courts, and Medical use. Providing accredited certification for your most important documents.
| Fully Recognised & Accepted By | |||
| Home Office | UK Courts | NHS | NARIC / ENIC |
| HMRC | GMC / GDC | Foreign Office | Solicitors |
Upload your documents and specify your target languages. Our team handles the administrative setup instantly.
Our express workflow ensures simple documents are certified and returned in less than 24 hours.
Your project is assigned to a certified linguist with specific expertise in legal and official UK translations.
Response in under 60 minutes
We are a translation agency located in Southampton United Kingdom that is incredibly passionate about supplying professional translation services for both consumers needing a document to be translated as well as certified but also for organisations that would like to expand their company into other countries. We’ll always provide the absolute best services at a very low-cost rate.
From translating university documents or marriage certificates to a full localisation of your website for a completely new target audience, we intend to do everything we can so as to supply you with the services you’re looking for at a very competitive price.
DHC Translations offers translation services support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including evenings, weekends and public holidays.
When you have a request that can’t wait for the morning, feel free to send an email to our office and we’ll begin your translation instantly.
Last updated: 15/04/2026
DHC Translations has certified translators located in Southampton ready to make a start. Simply drop us a message telling us everything you require including a scan of the document (if applicable) and the languages you wish it to be translated into and we will take it from there.
There are some occasions where certification will be a legal requirement for your document to be accepted in government departments. There are a lot of words used when talking about translation services. Certified, Notarised and Sworn are probably the most commonly used phrases.
Our Southampton based Certified Translation Services make certain that your translation is backed by one of the UK’s primary translation services organisations. When you apply for a visa, work permit, marriage registration, mortgage, etc. or place on a university course, certified translations of supporting documents may very well be expected from you.
Our Southampton based Official translation services are performed by exceptionally knowledgeable translators and our translations are acknowledged by all UK government bodies such as the Home Office along with the General Medical Council (GMC) . Since there are different kinds of certification it might be best to ask the relevant officials precisely which sort of certification they want.
DHC Translations also provides translation services for Immigration Cases. With many hundreds of clients including governing bodies, immigration solicitors and voluntary organisations choosing our services on a daily basis on an ad-hoc or "exclusive contract" basis, there is absolutely no language service requirement that we are unable to meet as we have thousands of linguists available who are specialists in these fields.
Our legal translation services department provides the day by day needs of over Two hundred legal firms, which includes over 70% of the Top 100 UK firms. 24/7 support, truly specialised translators as well as our guarantee to fulfill our clients' tightest deadlines have made us an essential part of the legal scene worldwide.
Due to our experience cooperating with over 200 legal firms - many of which are renowned for wanting everything completed "yesterday" - we have perfected our ways of working with massive volumes in a short period of time. Our use of multiple translators and project managers means several thousand words can be translated in merely a few hours.
DHC Translations has certified translators ready to get to work. Just drop us a message telling us precisely what you require along with a photocopy of the document (if applicable) and the languages you wish it to be translated into and let us do the rest.
Kindly note that regardless of how urgent your translation is, DHC Translations will under no circumstances make use of machine translation. Rest assured that every translator involved in your urgent translation services order will be a specialist in the subject area, offering you the easiest service of the finest possible quality.
Our Certified Translation Services ensure that your translation is backed by one of the UK’s foremost translation services companies. In case you apply for a visa, work permit, marriage registration, mortgage, etc. or place on a college course, certified translations of supporting documents could very well be asked from you.
There are some occasions where certification will be a lawful requirement for your document to be trusted in government departments. There are a number of words used when dealing with translation services. Certified, Notarised and Sworn include the most commonly used words and phrases.
Typically, the most common sort of translation services is Certified. Therefore we would attach an Affidavit or Cover Letter stating that the translation is a true an accurate representation of the original text. This is then signed by one of our Project Managers, stamped and dated. If you want to find our more about our Notarised translations please click here.
We currently offer translation services in in excess of 100 languages. For the whole list please click here. In addition, all of our certified translators are hand-picked to make sure that they are the very best undergoing a challenging exam before working for us. Whether it be legal documents or applications we are convinced to be able to assist whatever you requirement. Every one of our services are handled by qualified industry specialist linguists with at least 3 years practical experience.
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We're a group of professional translators based in Southampton. We have native linguists who are all 100 % accredited translators who were carefully selected from Southampton to make sure that the work that they provide is top-notch. We can provide yourself or your agency with translation services in in excess of 100 languages, drop us an e-mail at contact@dhctranslations.com for more info.
Our Southampton in-house translators are certainly one of our strong points. Not only do we have freelancers from all over the globe we also have an in-office team happy to get to work. Having translators in the office makes it so that your request is closely monitored and that work deadlines are kept. The whole process is hassle-free from beginning to end.
We believe it is essential to work in a team. It is essential that your translation is correct and sounds natural to your target audience. What sounds natural to one person might not sound the same to another. For this reason our Southampton translators always work in a team with a minimum of 2 people. This is for smaller projects and needless to say the size of the team would grow for larger projects that demand work.
I found this company by chance on line and they were fantastic, they applied to my initial email really promptly. They were so helpful. They explained how everything worked with a clear price structure. My documents were translated perfectly and done in the time scale they gave me. I will only be using this company again in the future.
Helen Harris French Certified TranslationTranslated both my documents and those of my friend. Their prices are very good, they are very polite, and they do a very accurate and fast job. I am very satisfied and will use their services again in the future. I highly recommend them.
We needed to translate our documents as soon as possible and they provided the translated documents on the next day from us contacting them. Best customer service and answered all our questions/requirements. Would 100% recommend.