Bank statement translation
Bank statement translation into English
For statements issued by a bank outside Australia that need to be read here. We translate the whole statement, line by line and balance by balance, and deliver it digitally, with NAATI certification as an option for visa files.
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Visa applications
Do bank statements need translating for a visa?
Yes, if the statement is not in English. Home Affairs says: “All documents not in English must be translated into English. Translators in Australia must be accredited by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters.” For a file translated in Australia, that points to the NAATI certification option.
Source: Home Affairs, translating documents (page last updated 16 September 2026)
Where it is asked for
Who asks to see a translated bank statement
A statement in another language usually needs an English version before anyone in Australia can act on it.
Visa financial evidence
Visa applications often ask for evidence of funds, income or support, and bank statements are the usual way to show it. For a file translated in Australia, Home Affairs points to one kind of translator: “All documents not in English must be translated into English. Translators in Australia must be accredited by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters.”
Source: Home Affairs, translating documents (page last updated 16 September 2026)
Rental applications and lenders
Property managers and lenders commonly ask for recent statements to see income arriving and rent or repayments going out. If your history sits with a bank overseas, a translation lets them read it without guessing at a column heading.
Business and legal matters
Accountants, business partners and lawyers may need to trace payments through an overseas account. A line-by-line translation gives them the same record you have, in English: every entry and every figure, in the order the bank printed them.
What a careful job includes
Translated as a statement, not a summary
The account and its holder
The account holder’s name is romanised to match the spelling in their passport. Account number, branch, statement period, currency and the opening and closing balances are carried across exactly as printed, so the translation can be matched to the original at a glance.
Every transaction line
Each entry keeps its date, description, amount and running balance, in the same order as the original. Dates are converted where the calendar differs, with the original kept alongside. An officer can run a finger down both documents and reconcile them line by line.
Stamps, footers and every page
Headers, footers, page numbers and marginal notes are translated in the statement’s own order, and a bank stamp is marked where it appears, with its wording translated. Terminology stays consistent across a multi-page statement, so the same fee is called the same thing on page one and page nine. Home Affairs asks applicants to “Scan or photograph all documents (English and non-English) in colour”, so upload your own colour scan of the statement next to the translation. With the NAATI option, the PDF also carries a copy of the pages you sent, stamped by the translator.
For a visa file translated in Australia, Home Affairs’ wording points to a NAATI-accredited translator, which is the NAATI certification option. It is prepared by a NAATI-certified translator and carries their name, practitioner number and certification statement, with a digital stamp and a scannable QR code. How the option works is set out on our NAATI translation, ordered online page. If your checklist asks for anything more on the translation, send us its wording before you order. Statements lodged with a partner visa are covered on our partner visa document translation page.
Pricing
The full price on screen before you order
Translation is $39.99 per page into English, delivered digitally. Add NAATI certification for $59.99 per page, prepared by a NAATI-certified translator with a digital stamp carrying a scannable QR code.
A statement is priced by the page, so upload the whole document on the order page and the total appears before you pay. Sending statements with other evidence? See partner visa document translation or the general services page.
Common questions
Questions about translating a bank statement
Yes. Bank statement is one of the document types on the order page, and a statement in another language is translated into English in full, every page you send. What a translation cannot do is vouch for the account. The translation renders what the statement says; we do not check the figures, confirm a balance with the bank or judge whether the funds meet anyone’s threshold. If an office wants your bank to confirm your funds, that letter has to come from the bank itself, and it can then be translated like any other document.
Order it online. On the order page, choose the statement’s language, pick Bank statement as the document type and set the number of pages, then choose Standard or NAATI certification and a delivery speed; the full price shows before you pay. Upload one file per page, so if online banking gave you the whole statement as one PDF, save or print each page to its own PDF first. The translation comes back by email as a searchable PDF. Up to four pages can be ordered online; a longer statement starts with an enquiry.
For an Australian partner visa, yes, if the statement is not in English. The Home Affairs partner visa checklists list “joint bank account statements” as evidence and say “Have all documents translated into English.” Lenders, property managers and accountants set their own rules, so ask whoever will read it. English column headings over transaction descriptions in another language still leave an English reader guessing, and a certified translation renders the whole page, keeping the English parts as printed. Documents already partly in English explains how those pages are handled.
It depends on who will read it. Standard, at $39.99 a page, is a full translation with no certification statement and no stamp, which may be all a property manager, accountant or business partner needs to follow the figures. NAATI certification adds $59.99 a page: a NAATI-certified translator signs a certification statement and applies a digital stamp with a QR code the reader can scan. If you have been asked for a “certified” translation, choose the NAATI option, because Standard carries no certification statement. If nobody has said, ask before you order.
We arrange translations into English from more than 150 languages, including French, German, Spanish, Greek and Hindi, and every language on the order page costs the same per page. If yours is not listed, send an enquiry first and we will confirm we can cover it before you pay anything. Whatever the language, amounts stay in the currency the bank printed and are not converted into Australian dollars. See also French to English translation and German to English translation.
Every page is priced the same, so the total follows the length: $39.99 a page, plus $59.99 a page with NAATI certification. Normal delivery is included, and Urgent or ASAP is one charge on the order, not a charge per page. Each side carrying text, a stamp or a seal counts as a page, including a back page of the bank’s standard notes, so ask the office which months it wants before you translate a whole year. Up to four pages can be ordered online; a longer statement goes through an enquiry, and our quote stays open for seven days.
At the fastest, ASAP aims for within 4 hours for $99, where a translator for the language is available. Urgent is 12–24 hours for $49, and Normal, within 3 days, is included. These are estimates, not a fixed time of arrival; if one is going to be missed, we tell you as soon as we know. We do not deliver on Sundays: a delivery that would fall on a Sunday arrives on the Monday. A page we cannot read pauses the clock, and a statement over four pages is quoted with its own delivery window. If a lender, agent or lodgement date is waiting, tell us the deadline before you order.
Send a copy that opens without the password instead. A translator cannot work from a file they cannot open, so a locked PDF holds the order up while we ask you for a readable one. Open the statement yourself first. If your PDF reader lets you print or save a page to a new PDF, that copy usually has no password; a screenshot of each page also works if the smallest print is still readable when you zoom in. Upload one file per page, and there is no need to send us the password. Photographing a document for translation covers the rest.
Yes, if a statement covering those months is still what the office asks for. The translation itself has no expiry date, but the statement records a fixed period, and an office asking for recent statements will want the latest ones, which are new documents and a new order. Check with the office before you order again. If the earlier translation will do, email us your order number and we re-send it at no charge, unless you have asked us to delete it.
Usually not. TIS National’s Free Translating Service lists the personal documents it accepts, and bank statements are not on that list, although pay slips are, under employment evidence. It also says “Document translations required for visa or citizenship applications, and documents issued by private citizens, are not eligible.” That rules out a statement going into a visa file as financial evidence. An unlisted document may still be accepted if you can show it will help you take part in employment, education or the community, so ask TIS if that is your purpose. Who the free service covers sets out its other tests.
That depends on the tool, and we cannot speak for any of them: its own terms set how it stores or reuses an upload, so read them before your account number and balances go in. With us, your pages stay on your device until you place the order, then reach us over an encrypted connection. A Standard translation is done by a translator or with AI translation tools; any AI tool is used only with model training switched off. The translator receives the pages but not the contact details on your order. Document images are deleted within 90 days of delivery, or sooner if you ask; the finished translation is kept for re-sending until you ask us to delete it. How we handle your documents sets out the rest.
They can give you the gist for your own reading, but not a copy a visa officer or lender should rely on. A statement is a table, and tables are easy to scramble: a row can shift so an amount sits beside the wrong transaction, and abbreviated transaction codes and shortened payee names can come back as guesses. No translator has checked the result against your original or put their name to it. When a visa officer or lender will work from the figures, choose the NAATI certified option: a NAATI-certified translator checks the translation against your original and certifies it.