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CIOL membership - necessary for "certified translations" in the UK?
Thread poster: GP Translations
GP Translations Mexico Local time: 07:05 Spanish to English + ...
Apr 30, 2020
Hi, These days, I am working as a part-time freelancer who receives work (mainly birth certificates, university transcripts, etc) on a very ad hoc basis. As such I am not earning very much at all from this work. I have the DipTrans from CIOL and I was wondering how essential it is to have a full membership to the CIOL to carry out these translations and for them to satisfy official institutions. Is self-certification enough or do institutions check credentials for example on Find-a-linguis... See more
Hi, These days, I am working as a part-time freelancer who receives work (mainly birth certificates, university transcripts, etc) on a very ad hoc basis. As such I am not earning very much at all from this work. I have the DipTrans from CIOL and I was wondering how essential it is to have a full membership to the CIOL to carry out these translations and for them to satisfy official institutions. Is self-certification enough or do institutions check credentials for example on Find-a-linguist? ▲ Collapse
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