Arabic translation services in the UAE
Arabic is not one language pair among many here. It is the language of the courts, the notaries, the land department and the labour ministry, and for official use the translation has to come from a translator the Ministry of Justice has licensed.
The licence matters more than the fluency. A bilingual colleague can produce a perfectly accurate Arabic version of your contract, and a court registry will still refuse it, because what the registry checks is the stamp, the signature and the licence number on each page. We produce translations that carry all three.
Register is the other trap. UAE official Arabic is Modern Standard, with legal formulae that have settled meanings, and a translator who drifts into Gulf or Levantine usage produces something that reads fine and lands badly. This cuts the other way too: Arabic-language originals arriving from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq or the Maghreb use different civil-registry vocabulary and different date conventions, and those have to be read correctly before anything is rendered into English.
How it works
- 1Send a scanEmail or upload the document, and tell us which authority will receive it.
- 2Get a written quoteA fixed price and a realistic date, with government fees shown separately from our fee.
- 3We handle the countersSubmission, tracking, fees and follow-up, with an update whenever the status changes.
- 4DeliverySigned PDF the moment it is ready, hard copies by courier or collected in person.
Services available in this language
Available across the UAE
Questions we are asked
Why does my Arabic translation need a licence number on it?
UAE courts, notaries and most government departments verify the translator against the Ministry of Justice register. The licence number, signature and stamp are what they check; without them the file is returned regardless of how good the translation is.
Can you translate Arabic documents from outside the UAE?
Yes. Documents from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Sudan and the Maghreb come up constantly. Each country uses its own civil-registry terminology, which we read in the original rather than guessing from the layout.
Do you handle handwritten Arabic?
Yes, including older civil registry entries and court records. Send a high-resolution scan; if a passage is genuinely illegible we flag it rather than inventing a reading.
Request a quote
Prices vary by document, language pair and receiving authority, so we quote rather than publish a rate card. Most enquiries are answered within one working day.