Home Office Refusal Letter Translation Into Your Language

Letters we translate into your language

Most translation companies only translate into English. We also work the other way, from English into the language you read best. Home Office letters are long, formal and full of legal terms. Reading them in a second language, under stress, is hard.

Reasons for refusal letter translation

A reasons for refusal letter explains, paragraph by paragraph, why the caseworker did not accept parts of your account. It may refer to your interview answers, to country information and to legal tests. Our translators keep the paragraph numbers exactly as in the English. That way, when your solicitor says "look at paragraph 47", you can find it.

Asylum interview record translation

Many people want to check their interview record. Did the interpreter capture what you said? Are dates and names correct? An asylum interview record translation lets you read every question and answer in your own language. If you spot something that looks wrong, tell your legal representative. We translate the record as it is written; we do not change or comment on it.

Grant letter translation

Good news also needs to be understood. A grant letter translation explains the length of your permission, the conditions attached and what you need to do next, such as setting up your eVisa. Some families also want the grant letter in their language to share with relatives.

Why a full translation matters before you appeal

If your claim is refused and you have a right of appeal, the time limit is short. GOV.UK (opens in a new tab) says you normally have 14 days from receiving the decision if you are in the UK, and 28 days if you are outside the UK. Your refusal letter states the deadline that applies to you.

In that time you need to understand each reason, talk to your solicitor and give instructions. A summary from a friend, or a machine translation, can miss the point of a paragraph. A full human translation lets you:

• see every reason the Home Office gave, not just the conclusion;
• check which of your documents the caseworker mentioned, and which they did not;
• prepare questions for your solicitor or adviser before your meeting;
• explain the decision to family members who cannot read English.

We translate; we do not advise

We are translators, not lawyers. We will not tell you whether the decision is right, whether to appeal or what to say. For advice, speak to a solicitor or an adviser regulated by the Immigration Advice Authority (IAA, formerly the OISC). If you appeal, our asylum appeal bundle translation service translates your evidence into English for the Tribunal.

Languages for Home Office letter translation

We translate English Home Office letters into the main languages spoken by people seeking asylum in the UK. Translators work into their own first language, so the text reads naturally.

• Urdu. We translate Home Office letters into Urdu in Nastaliq script. See Urdu asylum document translation.
• Arabic. Written in Modern Standard Arabic, easy to read for people from Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen or Libya. A Home Office decision letter translation into Arabic keeps legal terms consistent. See Arabic asylum document translation.
• Farsi. For readers from Iran. See Farsi asylum document translation.
• Tigrinya. In Ge'ez script, for Eritrean readers. See Tigrinya asylum document translation.
• Pashto and Dari. For Afghan readers; tell us which one you read. See Pashto and Dari asylum document translation.
• Kurdish. Sorani (Arabic script) or Kurmanji (Latin script). See Kurdish asylum document translation.
• Bengali. Standard written Bengali, which Sylheti speakers also normally read. See Bengali asylum document translation.

We also translate into Amharic, Somali, Albanian, Vietnamese and other languages. Legal terms such as "humanitarian protection", "credibility" or "internal relocation" are translated consistently, with the English term in brackets the first time it appears. This helps when you talk to your solicitor in English.

Delivery within 48 hours, or 24 hours urgent

A refusal letter usually arrives without warning, and the appeal clock starts at once. For the main languages (Urdu, Arabic, Farsi, Pashto, Dari, Kurdish Sorani, Bengali and Tigrinya), we deliver a full refusal letter within 48 hours of your order being confirmed, or within 24 hours on our urgent service.

How it works

1. Photograph or scan every page, or forward the PDF the Home Office sent you.
2. Tell us your language (and dialect or script, if it matters) and the appeal deadline in the letter.
3. We send a price and a delivery time. You pay only when you are happy.
4. You receive a PDF in your language by email. If you wish, we copy your solicitor or caseworker.

Price and timing examples

Price depends on the number of pages and the language. As a guide, a standard page costs from £18. A 30 to 40 page refusal letter is usually quoted as a fixed price, and for very long letters we can deliver the reasons section first and the rest soon after. Urgent delivery costs from £10 extra per document. Prices shown are starting prices and include VAT; we confirm your exact price in a written quote before any work starts. See our urgent asylum document translation page and our asylum document translation prices for more detail.

Your letter contains personal details about your claim. We treat it as confidential under UK GDPR. Only the people working on your order see it, and we delete the files after delivery.

Charities and law firms can order on behalf of clients and receive the invoice. UK registered charities, refugee community organisations and law centres, and people they refer, get 15% off all translations. See our translation services for immigration solicitors page for account terms.