What actually happens between uploading a document and holding a certified translation you can verify.

1. Get Instant Fixed Price

Upload your document, or paste the text straight in, on any service page. SmartQuote reads it: works out the document type, counts the pages, detects the language, and shows a fixed price immediately. No "we'll get back to you within 24 hours" and no hidden add-ons appearing later. What you see on screen is what you pay.

2. Pay securely

Checkout runs through Revolut. Card payment, a receipt straight to your inbox, and the order moves into production the moment it clears.

3. A translator takes it on

A translator is assigned. The certified translation contains:

• Pagination match: the translated document mirrors the layout and page count of the source, so an official can flick between the two without getting lost.
• Signed translator declaration: a formal statement on Tatkowski letterhead confirming the translation is a complete and accurate rendering of the original.
• Seal notation: any official seal, stamp or watermark on the source document is noted in the translation, not silently dropped.

These are set out in full on the certified translation page.

4. Delivered to your document drawer, not just your inbox

You receive a certified PDF by email, ready to print or submit online. The same file is also saved in your own account at tatkowski.com/my-orders, a secure client portal that holds the certified documents you've ordered from us. Log in with your email (a one-time code is sent, no password to remember) and everything you've ordered is there: order history, delivery status, and the files themselves. Hard copy by post is available on request where the receiving authority needs a paper original.

5. Verification

Every certified translation carries a reference (starting TIR-) that resolves at tatkowski.com/validate, with a QR code on the document itself for anyone checking it on the spot. The receiving embassy, university admissions office, employer, solicitor or HSE consultant enters the reference (or scans the code) and gets a real-time confirmation of the document type, language pair and date issued, without having to take the applicant's word for it. The public verification page stays live for at least 7 years from the date we issue the document; if proof is ever needed beyond that, contact us directly and we'll confirm it for the recipient.

Every certified translation we ship carries a Statement of Accuracy on Tatkowski letterhead, signed by the translator, in the format below:

"I, [Translator Name], hereby certify that the above is a true, accurate and complete translation of the attached original document. Provided by Tatkowski Interpreting & Recruitment Limited, Companies Registration Office of Ireland number 803790. Date: [date]. Contact: contact@tatkowski.com."

Each element on that block earns its place with a specific receiving authority:

• Translator name and declaration: it confirms a named natural person takes responsibility, not an anonymous agency.
• Company registration (CRO 803790): gives any caseworker a public register they can check on cro.ie to confirm the certifying company exists and is in good standing.
• Date: some applications reject translations older than 3 months. The date lets the recipient calculate that themselves.
• Contact: if the caseworker needs to ask a follow-up question, they can, without going through the applicant.

What we deliberately don't do: claim ITI, CIOL or ISO 17100 membership. We were incorporated in December 2025 and we're not going to inflate the certification to make it look older than it is.

If something goes wrong, the escalation path is short. Reply to the delivery email or WhatsApp +353 83 871 0861.

The one situation that genuinely calls for a refund rather than a fix is if we can't source a suitably qualified translator for a language or specialism at all: we'd rather return your money and be honest about it than ship a translation the wrong person produced. Delay on its own is not a refund case; a missed deliverable that we can't recover with reasonable endeavours is.

"Certified translation" isn't a single fixed format: what an authority expects varies by country, so the paperwork we attach varies too.

• Ireland: our Statement of Accuracy format is for Immigration Service Delivery (ISD), the Passport Office, and Irish courts. No sworn-translator register exists in Ireland the way it does in some EU states, so the signed declaration is the format we use.
• United Kingdom: for UKVI and Home Office submissions we use the same Statement of Accuracy format as our other certified output. Which one applies depends on where the document is going, and we confirm that with you at quote stage rather than guessing.

We don't hold a formal accreditation-body membership (no ISO 17100, no ITI, no CIOL) and we're not going to claim one we don't have. What you're actually relying on is the Statement of Accuracy on the document itself, the check at tatkowski.com/validate, and the CRO 803790 registered company standing behind it.