Translations for a UK Student visa

From offer to visa

Once a licensed university or college accepts you it issues a confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS). The CAS carries the course details, the fees already paid and, crucially, the qualifications the institution relied on when it made the offer. Your visa application then has to match the CAS: you show that you hold the qualifications it lists, that you have enough money for the first year’s fees and living costs, and, if you are under 18, that your parents consent. Turkish applicants usually meet all three with Turkish-language documents, which is why translation is part of nearly every student file we see.

The translation standard the Home Office applies

The Student route relies on the general GOV.UK rule for certified translations, quoted in the box: written confirmation that the translation is a true and accurate translation of the original document, the date, and the translator’s or translation company’s full name and contact details. Our certification includes all of these plus the signature of the person responsible and the company’s Ankara registry details, and appears on every page. There is no notary step, no apostille and no list of recognised translators.

Turkish documents in a student file

• Bank statements showing the required funds held for 28 consecutive days, ending no more than 31 days before the application date.
• Where the money is in a parent’s account: the parent’s statements, a signed consent letter from the parent (often prepared as a muvafakatname before a Turkish notary) and evidence of the relationship, normally your birth certificate or the family’s nüfus kayıt örneği.
• Qualifications named on the CAS: lise diploması and school transcript for undergraduates; lisans diploması and university transcript for postgraduates; a graduation certificate (mezuniyet belgesi) where the diploma has not yet been printed.
• For under-18s: the parental consent to travel, live and study in the UK, plus the parents’ identity documents.
• Occasionally a student certificate or sponsor letter from a Turkish scholarship body.

Where student applications stumble

• The 28-day window broken by a translation of a statement that starts on the wrong date or omits a page.
• Funds in a parent’s account with no translated birth certificate or consent letter, so the money is not counted.
• The degree title on the translated diploma differs from the one the university wrote on the CAS because the two were translated by different people.
• A temporary graduation certificate submitted as if it were the diploma without explaining what it is.
• Notary attestations on a muvafakatname left untranslated, so the letter looks unsigned.
• Turkish characters dropped from a name on one document and kept on another.

How we prepare it and what it costs

Tell us what the CAS says about your qualifications so our wording matches, and send every page of each statement. We translate in full, reproduce bank and notary stamps, keep names as in your passport and place each original behind its translation in a single certified PDF. A typical undergraduate bundle of one month of statements, a consent letter, a birth certificate and a lise diploması with transcript costs about £60–90 and is ready in 1–2 working days; express service halves the turnaround for 60% more. No UK VAT is charged. If you are still choosing a course, our UCAS page covers the earlier stage, and the Student visa checklist lists everything in order.