English-Speaking Sworn Translator in Alicante & Valencia

When your career depends on a stamp, not just a translation

📦 Tom had spent eight years building a small architecture practice in Bristol before he decided to do it all over again in Alicante — this time designing renovation projects for the growing wave of British buyers restoring old fincas across the province. Setting up as an autónomo turned out to be the easy part. The real bottleneck was his diploma: without an officially recognised qualification, he couldn’t register with the local colegio de arquitectos — and without that registration, no insurer would issue him the professional liability cover Spanish law requires before he could legally sign off a single structural plan. The colegio wanted certified translations of his degree, his UK professional accreditation, and a clean criminal record check, all apostilled before translation, not after. Tom assumed a bilingual friend could knock something together in an afternoon. It took one rejected submission to understand that only a jurado stamp would do — and that cutting a corner here would have cost him the whole business before it even started.