Power of attorney translation in Dubai

A power of attorney is only useful if the receiving authority can work with it. Most of the POAs we handle fall into the categories below. The wording differs in each, and so does what the authority looks for.

Send whichever of these you have. A phone photo is enough to start, as long as it is readable.

• The POA itself - draft or signed, all pages, and the reverse of any page carrying a stamp.
• Passport copies for the principal and the agent, so we use the spelling you will be submitting under.
• Where the document will be used: which notary, court, bank, authority, or registry.
• Whether it has already been notarised, attested, or legalised.
• Your deadline, if you have one, including any appointment already booked.

We read it, tell you what it needs, and confirm the price and a realistic timeline before any work starts. If you would rather hand over the original in person:

Arabic ↔ English power of attorney translation for notary, court, property, banking, company, and personal use.

The translation preserves the powers, conditions and limitations written in the POA. A lawyer or notary should advise whether that wording covers the intended legal purpose. A power widened, narrowed or blurred in translation no longer matches the source.

So we read the document before we quote. We check the names against the passports, the powers granted clause by clause, the dates, the stamps, and where you intend to submit it. Then we tell you what it needs and what it will cost.

These checks happen before the quote, not after delivery. They are the point at which a POA problem is cheapest to fix.

• Names, against the passport. The principal, the agent, and anyone else named. We use the passport spelling, and we ask which spelling to use when someone holds two passports, has a previous name, or appears differently on an Emirates ID.
• Arabic transliteration. If your name already appears in Arabic on an Emirates ID, a title deed, a trade license, or an earlier POA, that is the spelling we match.
• The powers granted, clause by clause. What the agent may do and what they may not - and any point where the wording is silent or ambiguous, such as whether the agent may appoint a substitute or whether a monetary limit applies. Where the scope reads unclear, we flag it for you or your lawyer rather than resolve it ourselves.
• Identifiers. Title deed and plot numbers, unit numbers, account numbers and IBANs, trade license numbers, case numbers, passport numbers. Digits are transcribed, never reformatted.
• Dates and validity. Issue date, any expiry or validity period, and any Hijri and Gregorian dates that have to agree.
• Signature and stamp status. Whether the copy is a draft or executed, whether it has already been notarised, and whether stamps sit on the reverse of a page.
• Where it is going. A notary, a court, a bank, the land department, a free zone authority, a registrar, or an embassy. The destination decides the format, and often the order of steps.
• Source language. Certified legal translation is Arabic ↔ English, handled in-house by the licensed translator. For other languages, send the document first and we confirm availability.

A POA usually has to be notarised as well as translated, and those are two separate steps. Notarisation is done by a UAE notary public or the relevant authority. We prepare the certified translation in the form the notary expects, and we say so plainly when the next stop is the notary rather than us.

The sequence depends on whether the POA is a draft to be signed or a document already signed abroad, and on the receiving authority’s instructions. Ask that authority which notarisation or attestation steps apply. A translation can only include stamps already present in the source; Arkan does not perform those authority steps.

attestation guidance sets out the full stamp sequence.

• The Arabic spelling of a name does not match the spelling already on the Emirates ID, the title deed, or an earlier document in the same file.
• A general POA is presented where the authority wants the specific act, the specific property, or the specific account named.
• The translation was produced from the draft, and the signed version came back with changes nobody passed on.
• The certified translation was made before the attestation stamps were added, so the stamps do not appear in it.
• The validity period ran out between signing and submission.
• Stamps or endorsements on the back of a page were never scanned, so the translation reads as incomplete.
• The source wording about appointing a substitute, receiving funds or signing before a particular registry is unclear or incomplete.

These are the details we check against the source before the translation is prepared.

We are a legal translation office, so it is worth being clear about the edges. We translate the power of attorney and certify it where certification is required. We tell you what we noticed while reading it - a name that does not match, a power whose wording is unclear, a stamp that appears to be missing - and we ask rather than assume.

We do not draft the POA, advise you on which powers to grant, or judge whether the document is legally sufficient for what you are trying to do. That is a lawyer’s work.

We do not notarise; that is the notary public. And we do not decide what a receiving authority will accept - no translation office can.

What we do is prepare the document to the requirements of the authority you name.

If a correction is needed because of our mistake, we correct it promptly and at no extra charge. If the source document changes, new information is supplied, or the receiving authority asks for a different format, we explain the required update and confirm any cost before proceeding.

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