Complete certified English translation for probate, inheritance, USCIS, and insurance matters.
Ready within 24 hours
Civil record
Every certificate field preserved
Identity data · cause of death · registrar notes · seals
Certified package
Signed and Stamped Certificate of Accuracy
Company letterhead · translator signature · company stamp
We check your files and confirm the total before you pay
Your finished package
Your delivery includes the source-document scan, a complete English translation, and a signed and stamped Certificate of Translation Accuracy.
Files checked and total confirmed before payment
Each pair below is its own page, built around that country’s registry forms, medical wording, and annotation rules. Same $24.95 flat page rate on all of them.
Native Spanish speakers · Mexico, Colombia, Spain & 20+ countries · USCIS, probate & insurance ready
Acte de décès expertise · Marginal notes handled · Estate and USCIS ready
Native Portuguese speakers · Brazil & Portugal death records · Causa mortis with CID-10 precision
How it works
Upload once. We check the files and confirm the total before payment. Then our team translates, reviews, and certifies the complete package to the AcceptReady™ standard we publish.
Send every page, both sides, including any medical annex, continuation sheet, or apostille already attached. If you are unsure what the office wants, send it all and we will say what is needed.
A translator renders every field, including the medical wording. A second reviewer checks the name, the date and place of death, and the registry entry against the source.
Corrections are free at this stage. Once approved, the certified files arrive as a searchable PDF you can forward straight to a court, insurer, or registry.
One physical page means one billed page.
No 250-word cap and no dense-page rebilling.
Certified price
$24.95/ page
No payment until file review
Cost
A certified death certificate translation costs $24.95 per physical page. A single-sheet record is $24.95; adding a medical annex or a filled reverse brings most orders to $49.90 or $74.85.
Start my order| What you are sending | Certified total |
|---|---|
| Certificate, 1 page | $24.95a standard single-sheet record |
| Certificate, front and back | $49.90when the reverse carries the registry entry |
| Certificate plus medical annex | $74.85cause-of-death detail issued on its own sheet |
| 4 or more pages | $24.95 per pagelong-form records and attached continuation sheets |
A note on “100% acceptance”
If a service promises “100% acceptance,” be careful — no one controls USCIS’s decision. What actually protects you is the written remedy: we revise free, or refund in full.
Client reviews
Elena T.
San Antonio, TX
“They translated every section, including cause-of-death details and side notes. Probate accepted the packet without asking for corrections.”
Probate filing · Cause-of-death detail
No corrections requested
Priya N.
Jersey City, NJ
“They caught a missing annex page before translation and saved us from an incomplete submission.”
Insurance claim · Missing annex
Caught before translation
Rami H.
Detroit, MI
“Very respectful and precise. The translation kept medical terms intact and our attorney filed it immediately.”
Estate file · Medical terminology
Filed immediately
Questions before ordering
If your document does not match one of these situations, send it anyway. Support replies in 15–30 minutes during support hours.
A certified death certificate translation costs $24.95 per physical page. A single-sheet record is $24.95, and a certificate with its medical annex is $49.90. There is no word cap, and we confirm the page count and total before you pay.
A one- or two-page record is usually delivered within 24 hours of a clear upload. Certificates with a separate medical annex or older handwriting take longer, and we name the window before work begins.
Probate courts, insurers, and USCIS all ask for a complete translation of the whole document with a signed certification, and that is what we deliver alongside the source scan. If a receiving authority rejects the translation for a translation-related reason, we revise it free. If it is still rejected, we refund the translation cost.
Yes, in the wording the certificate uses, including Latin or clinical terms. Insurers and courts read that line as recorded fact, so replacing it with everyday language changes what the document says.
We translate death certificates from 65+ languages into English. The pairs with a dedicated page are listed above. If yours is not there, upload the document anyway — the rate and the process are the same.
Usually yes, if you are filing an insurance or pension claim, because that sheet carries the detail the assessor is looking for. Send it with the certificate and we will tell you whether your filing needs it.
The informant is the person who reported the death to the registry, often a relative. Probate reads that section to see who was connected to the deceased, so it is translated in full rather than skipped as administrative detail.
Probate courts and insurers ask for notarization more often than USCIS does. We add it for $19.95 per order without changing the translated text, so it is worth checking your court’s own list first.
No. A page is one physical page of the source document. Many services cap a page at 250 words and rebill a dense page as two or three; we bill the page you upload.
Yes. You can read the finished translation and request unlimited free corrections before we certify it. If an authority later asks for a translation-related change, we correct the certified file at no charge.
No. A clear scan or phone photo is enough, and the original stays with you — you will likely need it again for other offices. The receiving authority reviews the copy together with the certified translation.
A US filing does not need one. A foreign registry closing an estate or updating a civil record abroad usually does, and we add a physical apostille for $190 per order when the certificate was issued by a US state.
Four things, and you can check all four yourself. Compare any line of the original death certificate with the translation, including the text inside stamps. Put the two documents side by side — same page count, same order, tables and stamps in the same places. Read the Certificate of Accuracy for the complete-and-accurate statement, the competence statement, the signature, date, and company stamp. Then confirm the wording matches what your receiving office publishes. Those four checks are the AcceptReady™ standard, and CertTranslate publishes it in full. Read the AcceptReady™ standard.
Most frequent problems we correct
These four recur in estate and claim files, both in documents we translate and in translations families ask us to review.
Our check: We reproduce the clinical wording as recorded, because an insurer or court reads that line as the registered fact rather than as a description.
Our check: We check the certificate for references to an attached sheet and ask for it, since a claim assessed without it usually comes back.
Our check: We translate it in full, because probate uses that section to establish who reported the death and how they were related.
Our check: We tell you when the document looks like an abbreviated extract, so you can request the fuller copy before a court or insurer asks for it.
The standard behind these checks
AcceptReady™ is CertTranslate's published standard for certified translations: complete word-for-word translation, mirrored page layout, signed and stamped Certificate of Accuracy on letterhead, and matched to the receiver's published requirements.
How to check each one yourselfChecked before certification. If an authority later requests a translation-related correction, revisions remain free.
Start my translationCommon filing contexts
A death certificate closes things: an estate, a policy, a pension, a civil-status record. Each of those readers checks the same three facts — who, when, and what the registry recorded as the cause.
The key is consistency: the name and dates should match the birth and marriage records filed alongside it, and every page referenced on the certificate should be in the packet.
A court needs the identity fields, the date, and the informant section to open or close an estate.
Assessors read the cause-of-death wording directly, which is why the medical annex is usually filed with it.
Applications for a widow’s, widower’s, or surviving spouse’s benefit ask for proof of the death itself.
A petition may need to show a petitioner or beneficiary has died, and a foreign registry may need to record it.
Document glossary
The parts of a death record that decide how a certified translation is built, whatever language the original is in.
Mexican death certificates can include civil registry data, medical cause-of-death text, and official annotation lines on the same page.
We translate cause-of-death terminology completely and do not summarize medical statements.
Registrar seals, issuance identifiers, and side notes are translated when visible in submission scope.
If additional extract pages are included, each page is translated in sequence to preserve record integrity.
Mexico is a Hague Apostille Convention member, so apostille is generally used when non-U.S. authorities request legalization after translation.
This is a common probate workflow and our checklist validates identity, date, and registry field consistency before release.
Philippine death records may include both civil details and narrative entries that require structured full translation.
Cause-of-death sections are translated fully, including medical terminology, without softening language.
If submitted records include ecclesiastical or local registry references, those sections are translated as part of the certified output.
Handwritten and stamped notes are translated where legible and marked [illegible] only when unreadable.
The Philippines is a Hague Apostille Convention member, so apostille is typically used when legalization is requested by non-U.S. destinations.
Scope confirmation before production helps prevent missing-page issues in estate and benefits submissions.
Indian death certificates can vary by issuing authority and may include supplemental remarks or classification details.
We translate all submitted fields exactly, including cause-of-death entries and official notes.
Religious or local registration information is translated in full when present in the source record.
India is a Hague Apostille Convention member, so apostille is commonly used when foreign authorities request legalization.
If the certificate is used for probate or cross-border filings, we verify whether notarization or apostille may be needed separately.
Field-level QA checks name, date, and registration identifiers before certification.
Arabic death records may include right-to-left field structure plus formal registration and religious references.
We provide clear label-to-value mapping in English while preserving source ordering and meaning.
Cause-of-death language is translated exactly and professionally with no editorial reinterpretation.
Official stamps and registrar statements are included because they can be material in probate and legal review.
Egypt is not a Hague Apostille Convention member, so legalization typically requires consular authentication instead of apostille.
If destination requires notarization or legalization, those requirements are handled as separate compliance steps after translation.
Russian death records may include civil registry text, institutional references, and formal cause-of-death terminology.
We preserve source language fidelity and do not simplify legally or medically relevant statements.
Name spelling, patronymic structure, and date fields are translated exactly as issued to avoid identity mismatch.
If records include additional legal annotations, each annotation is translated and positioned clearly.
Russia is a Hague Apostille Convention member, so apostille is generally used when non-U.S. authorities request legalization.
Final QA validates document identifiers and sensitive sections before certification release.
“When cause-of-death text is sensitive, the translator still must remain exact. Certified translation is factual representation, not interpretation or narrative editing.”
Reference library
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Ready when you are
Upload the certificate with any medical annex or continuation sheet. We confirm the page count, price, and delivery time before you pay.
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