Whether you live or work in Charleroi or elsewhere in the Province of Hainaut, ABC Translation handles your official documents from start to finish: sworn translation, apostille, embassy legalisation, document retrieval and interpreting.
Postcode 6000 Administrative language French
Which language for your documents in Charleroi?
Charleroi is in Wallonia, where administrations work in French. Foreign documents, and Dutch or German documents from other parts of Belgium, usually need a sworn translation into French before they are accepted. French documents going abroad are translated into the language of the destination country.
Common requests in Charleroi
Companies in and around Charleroi regularly ask us for translations of articles of association, contracts and company extracts, with an apostille or legalisation when a subsidiary, tender or client abroad requires it.
Marriages, legal cohabitation, nationality applications and family reunification are among the most common reasons people in Charleroi contact us: foreign civil-status records usually need an apostille or legalisation in the country of origin, followed by a sworn translation.
Our services in Charleroi
- Sworn translation in CharleroiOfficial translations signed by sworn translators, accepted by Belgian authorities, notaries and courts.
- Apostille in CharleroiApostille for Belgian public documents and translations going to countries party to the Hague Convention.
- Legalisation in CharleroiLegalisation through the FPS Foreign Affairs, embassies and consulates for countries outside the Apostille Convention.
- Document retrieval in CharleroiOfficial documents requested on your behalf from Belgian and foreign authorities.
- Interpreting in CharleroiSworn and professional interpreters for notaries, municipalities, meetings and conferences, on site or remote.
Ordering from Charleroi
Everything starts online: send scans through the form and receive your quote by email. When originals are needed they travel by registered post or courier, and your finished documents are returned to your address in Charleroi, or sent electronically when the authority accepts it. For interpreting, the interpreter comes to your appointment in Charleroi or joins by video.