Marriage Certificate English Translation for U.S. Immigration
When do you need certified translation of your marriage license?
If you are already married and apply for your Green Card (permanent resident visa), then U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS, formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service – INS) asks you to submit “certified translation” of your marriage certificate.
Marriage certificate is also called marriage license, wedding certificate or wedding license, certificate of matrimony, and other names in different countries.
Certified translation of your marriage certificate/license from the following languages:
Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Assamese Azerbaijani Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Cambodian Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dari Dutch Estonian Farsi Finnish Flemish French Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Kazakh Korean Kyrgyz Laotian Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Maithili Malay Malayalam Marathi Moldovan Mongolian Norwegian Oriya Polish Portuguese Punjabi Pushto-Pashto Romanian Russian Singhalese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tagalog Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Turkmen Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese
Who issues marriage certificate?
Civil registration offices, registrars of vital records, churches, executive committees, and similar official agencies issue marriage licenses.
You need to have your marriage certificate “certified” in hard copy
The USCIS, U.S. Passport Agency, colleges, universities, and many other agencies and organizations require "Certification by Translator" issued by translation agency.
We provide Certification by Translator document on our corporate letterhead with our authorized signature and raised (embossed) corporate seal with a statement as required by the USCIS and other agencies and organizations.
Notarization, in addition to certification, is not required by USCIS or U.S. Passport Agency. However, you may need notarization if you are not in the United States and applying to consulate office of the American embassy.
