Arabic-document accuracy
Official Arabic documents commonly use Modern Standard Arabic, right-to-left layout and country-specific legal or civil-registry terminology. Names, dates, seals and bilingual wording need to be handled from the source document rather than standardised to an Australian form.
- Arabic names can have more than one English spelling. Where a passport or earlier official translation is supplied, the translator can use it so names stay consistent across the file.
- Patronymic and family-name structures should be translated consistently against the source document and any passport you provide.
- Hijri and Gregorian dates, and Arabic and Western numerals, are taken from the source text and described clearly where both appear.
- Seals, stamps, signatures and handwritten annotations are translated or described where they are legible. Unclear portions may be marked as unreadable rather than guessed.
- Bilingual Arabic/English or Arabic/French forms, and formats that vary by issuing jurisdiction, are followed as they appear on the document.
- Clear, complete scans showing every edge, stamp, endorsement and reverse side help the translator work from the full record.
Documents from Arabic-speaking jurisdictions
We assess Arabic documents from a range of issuing jurisdictions, subject to document legibility, practitioner availability and the required translation direction. Documents may be issued in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and other Arabic-speaking jurisdictions. This is not a claim of guaranteed expertise in every jurisdiction or dialect.