Thai Translation Services Singapore

It is normal in Thailand and it is fixable. Changing a first name there is legal and common, and each change comes with its own small paper. Send that paper with the rest and we translate it too, so the chain from your old name to your new one is there in English for anyone to follow. Without it, an officer sees two names and no link between them. If you cannot find the slip, a district office in Thailand can issue another copy.

It is 1997. Thai dates count from a different starting point and run 543 years ahead of ours, so 2540 minus 543 gives 1997. We never replace the Thai year on your page. We print it exactly as it appears and put the ordinary year next to it, so an officer reads it in one glance and nobody does sums at a counter. Every date on the file is checked a second time by another person.

Because Thai writing has no gaps between words. English puts a space between each one, so counting is easy. Thai runs on in a single line, and any word count a computer gives you for Thai is a guess dressed up as a number. Charging by the page is the only way we can show you a figure you are able to check yourself. If somebody quotes you per Thai word, ask them how they counted.

Thailand has stayed outside that quick stamp system, so there is no apostille to get. Papers usually go the older road instead, through the Thai foreign ministry and then an embassy, and that takes weeks rather than days. Many files sent to offices here need no stamp at all, only a signed translation. Tell us who is receiving it and we will say plainly what is needed, because paying for stamps nobody asked for is the most common waste we see.

Send all of them. That book lists everyone in the household, and different pages carry different people, different dates and sometimes an old address that matters. People photograph the front page only, then an officer asks for the rest and another week goes by. It costs less to quote the whole book at once than to come back for the missing pages later. We will tell you if any page truly does not need doing.

Usually yes, with the paper that records the change. In Thailand a wife may keep her own surname or take her husband's, so an office here cannot assume which you did. If your school papers carry one surname and your passport carries another, the marriage record or the change slip is what joins them. Send it with everything else and we will translate the set together so all your papers agree.

Yes, and this is one of our steadier jobs. Design software has no gaps to guide it in Thai, so it cuts a line wherever it runs out of room, sometimes in the middle of a word. To you it looks fine. To a Thai reader it looks broken. We go through the file and set every break by hand, then a Thai reader checks the finished art work before it goes to print.

For that particular stamp, the work usually has to be done and lodged there, and we will tell you so rather than take the job. What we can do is prepare a clean English version for your Singapore side, and give you a clear list of what the Bangkok route will ask for. Many people need both: one file for an office here, one for an office there. We handle our half and point you straight at the other.

That is ordinary work here. District clerks write quickly and older pages fade, so a fair share of what we receive is handwritten. Send the sharpest photo you can, laid flat in daylight with all four corners in frame. Where a word truly cannot be read, we mark it unclear and say where it sits rather than guessing. On a name or a date, a guess is worse than a gap every single time.

Yes, and most jobs begin that way. Ask them to lay each sheet flat, shoot in daylight, and catch the edges and the back. Do not crop, because seals and small notes sit close to the border of the page. Your originals stay in Thailand. The only work needing a real original in this office is a certified true copy, and we will warn you long before that becomes urgent.