Uzbek translator in Tbilisi

Last reviewed: 13 November 2026 · facts checked against official sources

We translate from Uzbek into Georgian and from Georgian into Uzbek: passports and ID cards, birth, marriage and divorce certificates, criminal record certificates, school certificates and diplomas, company documents, contracts, powers of attorney and medical records, in Latin and Cyrillic script and, where needed, with a Russian version as well. We have the translation notarized: the notary confirms that the translator's signature is genuine. The standard turnaround is 1 working day, and a notarized translation of a document received during working hours can be done as an express order in 1-2 hours. The key rule: Uzbekistan has been a party to the Hague Apostille Convention since 2012, so consular legalisation is no longer needed, and the apostille is always placed on the original in the country that issued the document. Upload a scan of the document on the website, also from Tashkent, or bring the original to our office at 115 Davit Aghmashenebeli Avenue.

Uzbek in Georgia: who needs translation

Uzbek has been one of the fastest-growing languages in recent years. After 2017, Uzbekistan's economic opening, direct Tashkent-Tbilisi flights and growing bilateral trade created several flows into Georgia: students on medical, dental, business and computer science programmes, workers in construction and services, entrepreneurs, patients, tourists and Uzbek-Georgian families. A citizen of Uzbekistan can enter Georgia without a visa, but study, work, residence, marriage and setting up a company always require a notarized Georgian translation.

Two alphabets, the apostrophe and names

Latin and Cyrillic in one package

Uzbekistan announced the switch to the Latin alphabet in 1993, changed the alphabet in 1995, refined it again in 2019-2021 and postponed the deadline for the full transition several times. As a result, the biometric passport and ID card are in Latin script, a birth certificate or diploma issued before the 2000s is in Cyrillic, and court and notarial deeds use one or the other depending on the region and authority. Old certificates often have handwritten entries and bilingual stamps, in Uzbek Cyrillic and Russian. In the translation we keep the script of the original and confirm in a translator's note that the Cyrillic and Latin entries refer to the same person, so that a Georgian authority does not take "Каримов" and "Karimov" for two different people. An illegible fragment is marked as "illegible" and never filled in by guesswork.

The apostrophe problem: Oʻ and Gʻ

The Uzbek Latin alphabet writes two letters with an apostrophe-like mark: Oʻ and Gʻ. Officially this is the character U+02BB (ʻ), but passport, bank and computer systems render it with different characters or drop it altogether, so the same surname, for example To‘rayev, may be printed four different ways in four documents. The Georgian residence card and bank systems rely on the machine-readable zone of the passport, where the apostrophe is not written and O‘ simply becomes O. So we keep the Latin spelling as in that zone, create the Georgian transcription by sound (Oʻ as "o", Gʻ as the Georgian "gh") and confirm in a note that the variants are identical. In our experience, this one detail removes the most common reason for rejecting Uzbek documents.

o‘g‘li, qizi and JSHSHIR

An Uzbek name follows one of three models: the Soviet Russian one (Karimov, patronymic Rustamovich), the Uzbek one (Rustam o‘g‘li, "son of Rustam", Rustam qizi, "daughter of Rustam") and a mixed one, where members of the same family are recorded under different models. We keep the form of the patronymic unchanged, because a certified translation repeats the original and does not "correct" it; if an old certificate says Rustamovich and the passport says Rustam o‘g‘li, we add an explanation to the translation. New Uzbek documents contain a 14-digit personal number, JSHSHIR (in Russian ПИНФЛ), whose first digit reflects sex and century and the next six the date of birth. Georgian banks and the Public Registry often identify an Uzbek client by this number, so the editor compares it, the passport series and the form numbers with the original character by character: correcting one digit after notarization means notarizing again.

Notarized translation into and from Uzbek

What the notary certifies

A Georgian notary does not assess the linguistic accuracy of the translation. The translator presents the original or a copy, the full translation, an identity document and a qualification document; the notary binds the copy of the original and the translation, numbers the pages and places a certification on the last page, confirming that the translator's signature is genuine. For a bilingual document the certification names both source languages, Uzbek and Russian, so the translator must know both languages and both scripts. A specialist in Turkish or Kazakh cannot stand in for an Uzbek translator: the Persian-Arabic layer of Uzbek legal vocabulary, the Latin digraphs (sh, ch) and the Cyrillic letters (Ў, Қ, Ғ, Ҳ) follow their own rules. The Uzbek notary system, like the Georgian one, belongs to the continental tradition, so a Georgian notarial certificate is a familiar format for Uzbek authorities.

Apostille in Uzbekistan: who issues it

The Hague Convention has been in force for Uzbekistan since 15 April 2012. Under a resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers, the authority that issues the apostille depends on the type of document:

• justice bodies: documents of justice and civil registry bodies, including birth, marriage and divorce certificates
• the authorised education body: school certificates, diplomas, academic transcripts
• the Prosecutor General's Office: documents of prosecution, investigation and inquiry bodies
• the Supreme Court: court decisions
• the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: other official documents

Applications can also be filed through the single interactive public services portal. An apostille is placed only in the issuing country, so it is impossible to "add" an apostille to an Uzbek document in Georgia. For some documents the 1993 CIS Minsk Convention or another legal assistance treaty may make further certification unnecessary, but that is the receiving authority's decision; banks, employers and many authorities ask for an apostille in practice, so we recommend having it attached in Uzbekistan before the document crosses the border.

Apostille on a Georgian document for Uzbekistan

The apostille on a Georgian original is issued by the Public Service Development Agency, and applications are also accepted at the Public Service Hall (apostille in Georgia). The order is:

1. The apostille is attached to the Georgian original.
2. The document is translated into Uzbek or Russian including the apostille.
3. The notary certifies the authenticity of the translator's signature.

In Georgia an apostille is not placed on a notarized translation or a notarized copy, nor on identity documents, driving licences or private company documents, except those of medical and educational institutions. There is an alternative: the Agency itself translates a document that is subject to an apostille and apostilles its own translation, while some Uzbek authorities or notaries ask for certification by a local translator; in that case our translation remains the basis and the local translator certifies the finished text (document route).

A power of attorney when you cannot travel to Tashkent

A common case: a citizen of Uzbekistan is already in Georgia, but the birth certificate has no apostille yet. Only an Uzbek authority can issue it, so a power of attorney for a relative is drawn up at a Georgian notary, the notarial power of attorney receives an apostille at the Public Service Hall, it is then translated into Uzbek including the apostille, the translator's signature is notarized and the package is sent to Tashkent (power of attorney translation). Uzbek notaries expect a specific list of powers, for example "hujjatlarni olish va topshirish" (receiving and submitting documents), so we draft the Georgian text from the start in a way that makes the Uzbek version match the local standard.

Electronic certificates from my.gov.uz

Certificates ordered on the public services portal, on family composition, place of residence or criminal record, are often issued with a QR code and an electronic signature, without a physical stamp. The printout is bound at the notary just like a copy of a paper original, and in the translation we state the electronic signature details and the verification link so that the Georgian authority sees that the absence of a stamp is the format, not a defect. We also translate the fields of an electronic apostille in full.

Typical scenarios

• Residence permit: notarized translation of the passport, the criminal record certificate and the document supporting the grounds; the Uzbek criminal record certificate comes from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and has a limited validity, so we plan the apostille and the translation in one cycle (criminal record certificate translation)
• Marriage in Georgia: a certificate that the person is not married in Uzbekistan, from the civil registry body (FHDYo), with an apostille and a notarized Georgian translation
• Company: the registration certificate, charter and founders' decision of an MChJ for the Public Registry, with the name transliterated and the legal form explained (extract from the Registry of Entrepreneurs)
• Children: birth certificate, vaccination card and a parent's consent to travel, where the fields for the accompanying person and countries are carried over unchanged

Why translations come back

In other providers' translations we most often see: a random apostrophe character that makes the name differ from the passport; no note on the identity of the Cyrillic and Latin entries; o‘g‘li "corrected" into the Russian -ovich; a wrong digit in the JSHSHIR; only the Russian text of a bilingual stamp translated; ma’lumotnoma translated as "information", although it is an official certificate; apostille fields left untranslated. Each of these can be fixed without translating the document again, and if the problem lies in the original, for example a missing apostille, we explain in writing what you need to bring from Uzbekistan. One document often goes to several authorities, and each authority keeps its certified copy, so have as many copies certified from the start as you have recipients.

Translation in both directions

From Uzbek into Georgian

An official Uzbek document combines three vocabulary layers: Turkic roots, Persian-Arabic loans that form the core of legal and administrative vocabulary (guvohnoma - certificate, ma’lumotnoma - official certificate, ishonchnoma - power of attorney, shartnoma - contract), and Soviet-era Russian terms, often in the Russian column of the same document. In Georgian both correspond to one established term. Uzbek is agglutinative, with the verb at the end of the sentence, and a word-for-word translation produces constructions that make no sense in Georgian. That is why in this direction the translation is done by a native speaker of Georgian who reads Uzbek in both scripts, and the editing by a native speaker of Uzbek.

From Georgian into Uzbek: Uzbek or Russian

Uzbek is the state language of Uzbekistan: it is mandatory in court proceedings, civil registration, public procurement, company registration and a growing number of public services, while at many banks and private companies Russian is enough. Tell us the receiving authority and we will tell you whether you need one translation or both. As standard we translate into modern Latin script, and into Cyrillic if a regional body asks for it. In this direction the translation is done by a native speaker of Uzbek, and a Georgian editor checks that the legal nuances of the Georgian original have been understood correctly. Georgian institutions such as the Public Service Hall or the Public Registry are rendered in Uzbek by description or a functional equivalent, and Georgian names, since the Uzbek alphabet cannot exactly render certain Georgian sounds, follow the Latin spelling in the international passport.

Dates, currency and addresses

Uzbek documents write dates as day.month.year, often with the month spelled out. The currency is the som (so‘m, UZS), large amounts are written in millions, and in the translation we also keep the amount in words, without conversion. Addresses include the name of the mahalla (neighbourhood self-government), which has no Georgian counterpart: we keep the original and add a short explanation in brackets.

Education: Uzbek students at Georgian universities

Enrolment requires a school certificate or a lyceum or college diploma, which uses a five-point scale, and a transfer student needs an academic transcript in which the workload is often shown in hours rather than ECTS credits. The National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement requires a notarized Georgian translation of any foreign-language document, and we add an explanation of the grading system as a note, without conversion. The medical certificate (of the form 086 type) and the vaccination card do not follow the structure of the Georgian health certificate, so the translation shows which fields correspond (Form 100 translation). In the opposite direction, recognition of a Georgian diploma in Uzbekistan is carried out by the State Inspection for Supervision of Quality in Education, which usually asks for the apostilled original and a certified Uzbek or Russian translation; we reproduce the structure of the supplement table exactly and explain the 100-point system and ECTS (diploma and supplement translation). Licensing as a doctor in Uzbekistan involves an additional procedure for holders of foreign diplomas, so check the exact requirements with the Inspection before applying.

Legal and medical translation

Law and corporate terms

Uzbek law belongs to the continental tradition and after the Soviet period followed a reform path similar to Georgia's, so many concepts have direct equivalents: MChJ (mas’uliyati cheklangan jamiyat) is an LLC, YaTT (yakka tartibdagi tadbirkor) an individual entrepreneur, ustav a charter. The difficulty lies in institutions that exist in one country but not the other: free economic zones, the company identification number STIR, economic courts, the Tashkent International Arbitration Centre (TIAC). We translate such concepts keeping the original and adding an explanation. The terms in bilingual stamps and columns do not always match exactly, and such a discrepancy is recorded in a note.

Contracts, exports and employment

A contract with an Uzbek partner is often drawn up in two columns, Georgian-Uzbek or Georgian-Russian (contract translation). A clause making both texts equally authentic means that any discrepancy between the columns becomes a problem in a dispute, so as a separate step we compare article numbering, deadlines, amounts, penalty percentages, force majeure and the place of dispute resolution, as well as the consistency of the apostrophe in the company's Latin name so that it matches the registry entry. For exports of Georgian wine, mineral water and food, certificates of conformity, laboratory reports and label text are translated into Uzbek, while standard designations, including O‘zDSt, stay unchanged. Uzbekistan's Agency for Labour Migration requires an Uzbek-language employment contract in organised employment programmes, while the Georgian employer needs a Georgian one, so we prepare the contract in two languages; Uzbekistan's Labour Code has applied in a new version since 2023, and we point out in notes the clauses that differ from the Georgian code.

Court decisions

A decision of an Uzbek court on divorce, maintenance or inheritance is needed in Georgia for family or enforcement matters. In the translation we keep the full name of the court, the case number, the note of entry into legal force and the exact wording of the operative part. The apostille on a court decision is issued by the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan. New decisions are in Latin-script Uzbek, older ones in Cyrillic or Russian.

Medical translation

Uzbek medical documents keep the Soviet format: discharge summary (kasallik tarixidan ko‘chirma), outpatient card, medical certificate (tibbiy ma’lumotnoma), vaccination card. The text is often in Russian, while the headings, stamps and doctor's title are in Uzbek. We keep diagnoses with their ICD codes, medicines with their international non-proprietary and trade names, and doses and units unchanged. Uzbek patients come to Georgian clinics mainly for reproductive medicine, oncology, cardiac surgery and dentistry; after treatment the Georgian report, operation record and invoices are translated into Uzbek or Russian, and exact correspondence of diagnosis and procedure names is decisive for reimbursement. To register a pharmaceutical product in Uzbekistan, the leaflet and packaging text are prepared in Uzbek and Russian. Medical translations are checked by an editor with a medical background, and all documents are handled under a confidentiality agreement.

Simultaneous and consecutive interpreting

Uzbek or Russian

Ten years ago an Uzbek delegation spoke almost entirely in Russian. Today the younger generation finishes school in Latin-script Uzbek and many speak Russian only superficially, especially those from Fergana, Khorezm and Surkhandarya, while older businesspeople and officials often prefer Russian. That is why our interpreters work in both languages and establish at the very start of the meeting which language each participant prefers.

Formats

• Simultaneous: forums, tourism fairs, intergovernmental sessions; two interpreters in a booth, taking turns every 20-30 minutes
• Consecutive: negotiations, factory visits, meetings with investors
• Whispered: for one or two Uzbek-speaking participants, for example at a board meeting or an open day
• Remote: Zoom, Teams or an RSI platform with a separate language channel; Tashkent is one hour ahead of Tbilisi, so the working days almost coincide

In Uzbek the verb comes at the end of the sentence and negation is attached to the verb as a suffix, so the simultaneous interpreter learns the gist of a sentence only with its last word. The organiser should ask speakers for a moderate pace and add a few minutes to the timing. Uzbek simultaneous interpreters are few in Georgia, so a large event is planned several weeks ahead, if needed with a remote booth or a Russian or English relay channel.

At the notary, in court and at the clinic

If a participant in a notarial act does not speak the state language, the notary acts with an interpreter, and the interpreter signs the deed, confirming that the content was interpreted accurately and in full. Before the visit we clarify whether the interpreting should be in Uzbek or Russian: the choice should be based on the client's real language preference. In court, cases involving citizens of Uzbekistan most often concern labour disputes, road accidents and migration procedures; the interpreter renders what is said word for word, without softening it, and knows the procedural vocabulary of both countries (da’vogar - claimant, javobgar - defendant). At a clinic the interpreter also handles communication with family members, which matters in Uzbek culture when treatment decisions are made. For an employer who hires Uzbek workers in an organised way, we run occupational safety briefings with a portable system and also translate the materials in writing.

Dialects and etiquette

Literary Uzbek is based on the Tashkent and Fergana dialects, but Khorezm speech with its Oghuz features, the southern Kipchak varieties and the speech of Bukhara and Samarkand mixed with Tajik differ considerably; when something is unclear, the interpreter asks for clarification rather than guessing. Uzbek business etiquette includes the polite siz form, address by age (aka, opa) and courteous opening phrases, which the interpreter conveys through tone and does not cut.

Preparation and booking

Share with the interpreter in advance the programme, the list of speakers with their language preference, presentations and draft contracts, at least two or three days ahead. From these materials we prepare a glossary in Uzbek, Russian and Georgian. A visit to a notary or clinic is often possible on the same or the next day, with a minimum booking of one hour, while a simultaneous event should be booked two or three weeks ahead. In an emergency, at a hospital or a police station, the interpreter joins a phone call as a third party.

Official sources

• Public Service Development Agency: apostille and legalisation: which Georgian documents can receive an apostille, which cannot, and the processing times
• Hague Conference: Apostille Convention status table: the current list of countries: apostille or consular legalisation
• Resolution No. 732 of the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan (lex.uz): who apostilles Uzbek documents and how to apply

Frequently asked questions

Upload a scan of your Uzbek or Georgian document on the website or bring the original to our office at 115 Davit Aghmashenebeli Avenue: we will tell you where the apostille must be placed, which language and script the document should be translated into and when the notarized translation will be ready.