intricacion

English translation: complicated / intricate

02:43 May 3, 2018
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Tourism & Travel / immigration
Spanish term or phrase: intricacion
is intricacion or intrincacion or intricado used at all in Mexican Spanish to refer to some part of the immigration process to the USA? Like some part of the paperwork or some kind of visa one might be able to obtain?
Kathleen Monaghan
United States
Local time: 19:01
English translation:complicated / intricate
Explanation:
Difficult to know what you're asking without the actual text you want to translate, but this could be what you want.


intrincado
adj Que es enredado o enmarañado: “La ranchería estaba enclavada en la intrincada sierra de Guerrero”, “Impresiona como una novela de intrincada trabazón y propósitos ambiciosos”

http://dem.colmex.mx/moduls/Buscador.aspx

I imagine they mean it's a very complicated, intricate or even tortuous process.
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Robert Carter
Mexico
Local time: 17:01
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Summary of answers provided
2 +1complicated / intricate
Robert Carter
3(bureaucratic) red tape
Barbara Cochran, MFA
3intricacy - the complexity of - tangle - complication
JohnMcDove


Discussion entries: 6





  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
intrincado
complicated / intricate


Explanation:
Difficult to know what you're asking without the actual text you want to translate, but this could be what you want.


intrincado
adj Que es enredado o enmarañado: “La ranchería estaba enclavada en la intrincada sierra de Guerrero”, “Impresiona como una novela de intrincada trabazón y propósitos ambiciosos”

http://dem.colmex.mx/moduls/Buscador.aspx

I imagine they mean it's a very complicated, intricate or even tortuous process.

Robert Carter
Mexico
Local time: 17:01
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  David Hollywood: the question is so wobbly, do you really think so?
24 mins
  -> I agree, David, hence my low CR. Perhaps it's "complications" or "intricacy", or perhaps the word is actually "internación"?

agree  JohnMcDove: I realize you noted "intricacy" here in your reply to David. Yes, context or no context, "intricacies" is what the Spanish word means. That's the simplicity of it-- what a paradox! ;-)
13 hrs
  -> Gracias, John :-)
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42 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
(bureaucratic) red tape


Explanation:
All the interviews, paperwork, etc. that has to be filled out or presented.

Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 19:01
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
intricacy - the complexity of - tangle - complication


Explanation:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/intricacy

As given by Oxford,
tangle, web, morass, jungle, snarl, twist, turn, complexity, confusion, complication, entanglement, convolution


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Note added at 1 hr (2018-05-03 04:22:05 GMT)
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By the by,
Welcome to proZ.com, Katleen!

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Note added at 1 hr (2018-05-03 04:23:18 GMT)
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KatHleen!

(Sorry, I got caught in the intricacies of my Spaniard spellings...)

JohnMcDove
United States
Local time: 16:01
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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