Greek Translation in Belgium: EU Nationals, Civil Status Records and Official Documents

Belgium is home to several tens of thousands of Greek nationals, EU citizens free to move and settle. Despite this freedom of movement, administrative procedures - municipal registration, diploma recognition, family reunification with third-country nationals - regularly require certified Greek translations. TranslateBE supports you for all your official Greek documents.

Why Translate Greek Documents in Belgium

Greek is the official language of Greece, an EU member state. Greek nationals in Belgium benefit from the rights conferred by Directive 2004/38/EC, but their official documents - civil status records, diplomas, criminal records - are issued in Greek and must be translated for Belgian authorities to process them. The main situations generating this need are:

• Registration in the municipal register: although EU nationals do not need a visa, registering in a Belgian municipality requires producing identity and civil status documents. If these are in Greek, a certified translation is often requested.
• Marriage in Belgium: a Greek national wishing to marry in Belgium must provide a certificate of marriageability (issued by a Greek town hall) translated into French or Dutch depending on the municipality.
• Diploma recognition (NARIC): Greek diplomas - medicine, law, architecture, engineering - must be translated to be submitted to NARIC Belgium (NARIC Wallonie-Bruxelles or NARIC Vlaanderen) for equivalence.
• International successions: Greek wills, notarial inventories, and succession deeds must be translated for Belgian notaries when inheritances involve assets or heirs in Greece.

Typical Greek Documents: Specificities for Belgian Authorities

Greek documents present some particularities that our translators master perfectly. Modern Greek uses the Greek alphabet, and Greek civil status records (ληξιαρχική πράξη) follow a standardised format since administrative reforms. Greek university diplomas may be issued by public institutions (national universities) or higher technological education institutions (TEI).

Certified Greek-French Translators in Belgium

Our translators specialised in Greek hold translation degrees and are registered on the Belgian national register of judicial experts. They master standard modern Greek (δημοτική) as well as the legal and administrative terminology specific to Greek institutions: Ministry of the Interior, municipal registers (δημοτολόγιο), Greek notary (συμβολαιογράφος).

Greece having joined the Hague Convention, Greek documents can be apostilled directly, which simplifies their international recognition. We assist you with this complementary procedure if necessary.