Get your certified translation in Paris and Île-de-France without leaving home. Our expert court-registered translators are listed with the Court of Appeal of Paris or Versailles. A signed, stamped document accepted by every prefecture, town hall, university and consulate across the Paris region.
Paris is home to more than 2.1 million residents within the city limits and close to 12.4 million people across Île-de-France · nearly a fifth of the French population. Île-de-France is also the region that generates the largest number of administrative files involving a foreign document: naturalisation applications, residence permits, international marriages, university enrolments, degree recognition, civil-status transcriptions, and more. In every one of these cases, a certified translation is required.
Transdoc (part of the Legal230 Group) meets this need with a fully online service designed around Parisian life: you upload your document from your computer or phone, a court-registered expert translator listed with the Court of Appeal of Paris or the Court of Appeal of Versailles handles your file, and you receive the signed translation by email, followed by the paper original by tracked post to your address in Paris or Île-de-France.
Our translations are accepted without exception by the Paris Police Prefecture (Préfecture de Police, 50 rue de la Cité, 75004), the Paris Prefecture (5 rue Leblanc, 75015), every prefecture and sub-prefecture in Île-de-France, the town halls of all 20 arrondissements, the universities (Sorbonne, Paris-Cité, Paris-Saclay, PSL, Sciences Po, Dauphine, and more) and every foreign consulate based in the capital.
Paris has several dozen practising sworn translators. Having a document translated at a physical office generally involves:
Our online service removes all of that friction. A clear scan or photo of the document is all it takes to start the translation, and the displayed rates are the same as for someone in Toulouse or Lille · no Paris surcharge. Delivery by tracked post is usually faster than a second trip to an office, especially from an outer arrondissement to a Left Bank practice.
For an urgent prefecture file (for example an OFII appointment — the French Office for Immigration and Integration — or a hearing before the National Asylum Court in Montreuil), our 24h express and 10h urgent turnarounds comfortably cover the window between the summons and the appointment.
We cover the whole of the Île-de-France region · eight departments in total · with delivery times of 24 to 48 hours by La Poste tracked post:
Whether you live in a tower at La Défense, a Haussmann-era apartment in the 7th arrondissement, a house in the outer suburbs, or student housing in Nanterre, you'll receive your translation at your address within 48 hours at most.
Here are the main Paris and Île-de-France administrations our clients regularly order translations for. Our translations are accepted 100% of the time · we guarantee a free re-issue or refund in the rare event of a rejection.
Some Île-de-France procedures have their own quirks. Here are the three our Paris clients encounter most often:
OFII manages the validation of long-stay visas that serve as a residence permit (VLS-TS), medical check-ups, and the Republican Integration Contract. For an OFII appointment in Paris (48 rue de la Roquette, or the relevant territorial office depending on your department), you will need to present a certified translation of your birth certificate and, depending on your situation, your marriage certificate, diploma or criminal record. See our page on visa and residence permit translation.
International students applying through Campus France, or directly to Sorbonne Université, Paris-Cité, Paris-Saclay or Sciences Po, must provide a certified translation of their diploma and academic transcripts. Since Campus France processing times are long, plan your translations several months ahead of the start of the academic year. See diploma translation and degree equivalence.
The ENIC-NARIC centre, based at 28 rue Pierre Brossolette in Sèvres (92), issues comparability statements for foreign qualifications. An ENIC-NARIC application always requires a certified translation of the diploma and academic transcript. Our translators regularly produce files accepted by this centre.
Here is the exact journey your translation follows, from order to hand delivery.
Transdoc applies a single rate across all of France: no Paris surcharge, no dense-area surcharge. The prices below include all taxes and cover the translation, the certification, binding to a copy of the original, the signed PDF, and postal delivery of the paper original by tracked post.
| Document / package | Turnaround | Price | Paris delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard birth certificate | 48 working hours | €39 | Tracked post 24h |
| Marriage certificate | 48 working hours | €49 | Tracked post 24h |
| Diploma + transcript | 48 working hours | €79 | Tracked post 24h |
| Express 24h | 24 working hours | €59 | Priority post Popular |
| Urgent 10h | 10 hours (same business day) | €79 | Courier possible within central Paris |
| Family pack · 4 certificates | 48 working hours | €129 | Tracked post, 17% off the total |
Get an instant, precise quote from our online configurator. For the detailed rates of all our services, see our official pricing page.
Since 2018, Transdoc has supported more than 2,400 individuals with their administrative procedures, nearly half of them based in Île-de-France. Our positioning rests on three pillars:
Our parent company, Legal230, is also Europe's leading legal translation provider for law firms and in-house legal departments. That expertise shows in the terminological quality of every certified translation we produce for individuals.
The fastest method is to use an online platform like Transdoc, which brings together several court-registered expert translators listed with the Court of Appeal of Paris or Versailles. You order in 3 minutes, receive the signed PDF within 24 to 48 hours, and the paper original by tracked post 24 to 48 hours later at your Paris address.
You can also check the official register of expert translators on the Court of Appeal of Paris website, but that means contacting each translator individually and arranging appointments and travel yourself.
Yes, without exception. Our translators are listed on the official register of a French Court of Appeal · a requirement of every prefecture. Our translations are accepted by:
· The Paris Police Prefecture (50 rue de la Cité, 75004)
· The Paris Prefecture (5 rue Leblanc, 75015)
· The sub-prefectures of Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne and Val-d'Oise
· The outer-ring prefectures (Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Essonne)
For naturalisation, residence permit, family reunification and long-stay visa applications, our translations meet the formal requirements set out in the Île-de-France prefecture circular.
No. Our rates are strictly identical regardless of your arrondissement or département. A standard birth certificate stays at €39 (taxes included) in Paris just as it would in Brest. Since the service is 100% online, there are no travel costs and no Paris surcharge.
We also apply the same rate card across all of Île-de-France (77, 78, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95).
Our translations are delivered by La Poste tracked post, which covers central Paris within 24 working hours and the wider Île-de-France area within 24 to 48 hours. Tracked post is included in the price.
In-person collection remains possible by appointment at our offices (8th arrondissement) for extremely urgent files. Call us on +33 1 84 80 21 20 to arrange a slot. For urgent 10h orders, a courier within central Paris can also be arranged.
As Paris is the most diverse region in France, requested languages are extremely varied. Our most frequent Paris orders involve:
· Arabic (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria)
· English (United Kingdom, United States, Canada, India, Nigeria)
· Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (European residents)
· Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Polish (Eastern European communities)
· Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai (students and expatriates from Asia)
· Turkish, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil (asylum and naturalisation applications)
· Wolof, Lingala, Swahili, Malagasy, Creole (Sub-Saharan African and overseas-territory communities)
Full list on our available languages page.
Yes, and it's actually one of our most common requests. We translate diplomas and academic transcripts every day for Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Cité, Paris-Saclay, Sciences Po, PSL, Dauphine, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 8 and every university across Île-de-France.
Our translations are also accepted by the ENIC-NARIC France centre (28 rue Pierre Brossolette, Sèvres) to obtain a comparability statement before enrolment. See degree equivalence.
Yes. Paris hosts almost every consulate-general in France. We regularly produce translations for the consulates of Morocco (rue Saint-Dominique), Algeria (rue d'Argentine), Tunisia (rue des Favorites), Senegal (rue Raffet), Côte d'Ivoire (avenue Raymond Poincaré), Turkey, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Russia, China and around fifty other countries.
Translation can run from French into the target language (for procedures in the country of origin) or from the source language into French (for procedures in France).
Our 24h express and 10h urgent turnarounds are especially well suited to OFPRA (Fontenay-sous-Bois) and CNDA (National Asylum Court, in Montreuil) cases. The PDF is available the same day, and the paper original is delivered to your Paris address within 24 to 48 hours by tracked post.
For last-minute situations (a hearing the next day), in-person collection or a courier within central Paris is possible. See our dedicated OFPRA / asylum page.
Prefectures, OFII, ENIC-NARIC, consulates: who to contact, which documents to provide, what turnaround to expect. 18-page PDF.
Order online from home or your Paris office. Certified translation delivered to your address in 48 hours, accepted by every administration across Île-de-France.