Romanian Legal Translation Services

A Romanian Legal Translation Company That Knows Both Codes

Romanian looks deceptively familiar to anyone who reads French, Italian or Spanish, and that familiarity is precisely where legal translations go wrong. Romanian legal vocabulary borrowed heavily from French in the 19th century, then evolved on its own terms, so a term that resembles its French cousin often carries a different meaning under Romanian law. Since 2011, Romania's unified Civil Code has merged civil and commercial law into a single framework, which means a translator working from outdated references will mislabel the very concepts a contract depends on.

This is the level at which Jurilingua works. For over four decades we have translated exclusively legal and financial documents, and our Romanian team pairs linguists trained in Romanian law with revisers who know American practice. The firm holds corporate membership in the American Translators Association, GALA and the North American Translation Alliance, and every project follows a documented quality process aligned with ISO 17100 requirements. It is the difference between a translation that reads well and one that holds up in a dispute.

One Language, Two Jurisdictions: Romania and Moldova

A detail that regularly trips up American filings: Romanian is the official language of two countries. Documents from Bucharest and documents from Chișinău look similar on the surface but come from different legal systems, different registries and different certification traditions. Older Moldovan records may even appear in Cyrillic script. Jurilingua translates both, identifies the issuing jurisdiction correctly in the certification, and spares your case the confusion that a mislabeled source country creates.

On the Romanian side, we work constantly with the paperwork of a fast-growing EU economy. American companies outsourcing software development to Cluj-Napoca and Iași send us master service agreements and employment files. Investors acquiring Romanian businesses need ONRC extracts, articles of incorporation and the certificat constatator translated for due diligence. And because Romania has been an EU member since 2007, much of this work involves EU-derived terminology, from GDPR processing agreements to consumer protection clauses, which our translators render with the official English equivalents rather than improvised ones.

For families and individuals, the flow runs the other way: civil status certificates, criminal record checks and school diplomas heading into immigration files. We serve large Romanian communities in New York, Chicago, Sacramento, Atlanta and Portland, alongside every other city through our online service.

Certified for US Authorities, Prepared for Romanian Ones

Romania appoints authorized translators (traducători autorizați) through its Ministry of Justice, and Romanian institutions generally insist on them. American agencies work differently: USCIS and the courts require a certified translation with a signed statement of accuracy from a competent translator. Jurilingua produces the correct format for each destination. Documents leaving Romania for a US filing receive our US-compliant certification; documents heading to a Romanian notary or court are prepared so they can be authorized and apostilled on the Romanian side without rework. Romania is a party to the Hague Apostille Convention, and we translate the apostille along with the underlying record so the file arrives complete.

Our certified Romanian translations are backed by the same guarantee we offer in every language: if a receiving authority questions our certification, we make it right at no charge. Rates are published openly on our pricing page, and the fastest way to a firm number is our free quote form.

Built Around the People Who Send Us Romanian Documents

Most of our Romanian work arrives from four directions. Litigators hand us discovery in Romanian and get back English versions their experts can quote, supported by our broader translation services for law firms. In-house teams at companies with Romanian operations send HR policies and codes of conduct, an area covered in depth by our HR translation practice. Banks and funds evaluating Romanian assets need financial translation that keeps IFRS terminology intact. And immigration attorneys rely on our immigration document specialists for filings where a rejected translation would cost their client months.

Behind all of it stands the same team: translators profiled on our translators page, credentials detailed under accreditations and memberships, and a track record you can read in what clients say about us.