Why being in Delhi actually matters for this work
For most translation, where the company sits is irrelevant — a scan arrives, a translation goes back. For the authentication that follows, Delhi is genuinely the place where a good deal of it happens.
Apostille is issued centrally. The Ministry of External Affairs handles apostille for the whole country, and it operates from Delhi. Documents from anywhere in India converge here for that step.
Most foreign missions are here. The diplomatic enclave at Chanakyapuri holds the large majority of embassies and high commissions in India. For destinations outside the Hague Convention — which includes most Gulf states — embassy attestation is the required route, and that attestation is done at the mission in Delhi.
That means the chain for a document going to, say, Saudi Arabia or Kuwait runs through offices a short distance from ours. It does not make the government's timelines faster, and anyone claiming it does is overselling. What it does mean is that the physical movement of documents between steps is not adding days to your schedule, and that queries can be dealt with in person rather than by post. Where a deadline is already tight, our page on urgent and same-day work sets out which steps in that chain can be compressed and which cannot.
Coming in person
You are welcome to bring documents to the office. It is worth it when a document is fragile, unusually faded, or bound in a way that photographs badly — an old registrar's ledger extract, a stitched marksheet booklet, a document with an embossed seal that a phone camera flattens into nothing.
For everything else, a clear photograph is genuinely sufficient to quote from and usually sufficient to work from. Do not make a journey across the city to do something WhatsApp does in a minute.
If you are coming in, message first with a photograph. We will tell you whether the trip is necessary, and if it is, what to bring — the passport page in particular, since name mismatches are the most common reason a translated document is later refused.
If you are not in Delhi
Most of our work is for people elsewhere in India, and nothing about the service is worse for them. Documents arrive as photographs, translations go back as PDFs, and signed hard copies travel by courier where the receiving authority insists on paper.
We do not maintain offices in other cities and we do not pretend to. If you want someone you can walk in and see, and you are in Chennai or Kochi, you should use somebody in Chennai or Kochi. If what you need is the document done correctly and certified in the format your authority requires, distance is not a factor. We have set out how working with us from elsewhere in India actually works — what travels by courier, and why the state your document was issued in matters more than the one you live in.