How long does a NAATI translation take, and what slows it down?

In-depth Answer

Real turnaround depends on three variables: source legibility, content complexity, and page count.

Standard-format civil records with clean scans are the most predictable; legal, medical and curriculum material needs more review time.

Nearly all avoidable delay originates at file preparation — phone photos shot at an angle with clipped edges, resolution too low to read digits confidently, missing pages, or fronts sent without the reverse side that carries the registration record.

The other common cause is changing a name spelling after work has begun, which forces a consistency re-check of the whole set.

What genuinely speeds things up: send high-resolution colour scans of every page plus the passport bio page at first contact, and state the real lodgement deadline so the job can be sequenced correctly.

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