Documents for Czechia

Czechia is the second destination after Poland with the pleasant exception: the apostille is mostly not needed, thanks to a bilateral legal-assistance treaty. The question that actually needs answering is the translation format: a court translator in Czechia or a notarized translation from Ukraine.

How it works in practice

• Soudní překladatel (a court translator from the Czech register) — required by courts, matrika offices for marriage and child registration, the foreigners’ police (OAMP) in some procedures, and notaries.
• A notarized translation from Ukraine — accepted by most employers, schools, hospitals, and banks. It’s noticeably cheaper, so the golden rule: ask your institution in writing which format it needs — then order.

Many institutions accept documents as scans at the first stage: we send the PDF the moment it’s ready, with the paper original following by post.

The most frequent documents: birth and marriage certificates, diplomas (nostrification), police clearance, powers of attorney.

Documents the other way: from Czechia to Ukraine

Czech documents — matrika extracts, court decisions, corporate extracts — used in Ukraine likewise mostly need no apostille under the same treaty; a notarized Ukrainian translation is required. We produce it in Kyiv from scans; the package ships by Nova Poshta.

A power of attorney from Czechia for use in Ukraine follows “template from a Ukrainian notary → certification at a Czech notary → back-translation” — shown in detail in our cross-border PoA case.

How MovaPro helps

We’ll tell you whether your case needs an apostille and which translation format your institution accepts; produce a notarized translation in Kyiv; and handle the apostille where needed. Scans by email or messenger, a quote within 15 minutes.