住民票住民票の写し
Certified Japanese residence-record translation for USCIS, consular, tax, and family-status use.
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Japanese residence record
Household and address fields preserved
Residents · relationships · addresses · move dates · registry notes
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
A residence record is printed to order. The counter asks what to include, so two sheets from the same office can carry different fields. Check the heading of yours against these four.
A copy listing every member registered at the address, with the relationship column showing how each one stands to the head of the household.
This is the version that answers a question about a family rather than a person. It also shows who else the address belongs to, which is the point when an office is checking a household.
Usually what offices ask for. Ask for the relationship column and, when a filing traces family, the register-of-origin line as well.
The same record printed for one named resident. It confirms that person’s address and dates and says nothing about anyone else at it.
It is the version handed over when nobody says otherwise, and the one that comes back short when the office wanted the household.
Depends on what was asked. Fine for an address check; request the whole-household copy if a relationship is what you are proving.
The record a municipality keeps after a resident leaves it — by moving to another city, moving abroad, or dying. It shows the address as it stood and the date the registration ended.
People who have already left Japan usually need this one, because the address they are asked to evidence is no longer current anywhere.
Depends on what was asked. Request it from the municipality you left, not from the one you moved to.
An attestation that named facts match the register, printed onto a form the requester brings in. Employers ask for it, because it confirms only the handful of items on their own sheet.
It answers a specific question and shows nothing beyond it, so its content is set by whoever designed the form rather than by the register.
A different record. We translate it as issued; if the office named the residence record itself, request that as well.
Whichever version you request, the counter also asks whether to print the register-of-origin line, the relationship column, and the individual number. Ask for the first two when family or status is at issue, and leave the number off unless it was specifically requested.
Real Japanese casework
Three anonymised orders. None of them is a residence record, and all three turned on the habit this document rewards: rendering what the sheet says instead of what a reader expects.
Foreign residents
The Latin spelling came from the person’s own passport rather than from the katakana, which is how we handle any non-Japanese resident written into a municipal record.
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Addresses
The foreign locations were restored to their real names instead of respelled from the Japanese sound — the same rule that governs every address line we translate.
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No false equivalents
The fields only make sense inside the Japanese system that prints them, so each one was rendered and left recognisable rather than mapped onto a US equivalent that does not exist.
Read the caseHow 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.
Scan the whole sheet, edge to edge, including the issuing office and seal printed along the foot.
Wei Lin translates the record and a second linguist checks the address, the dates, and the relationship column against the scan.
Read the draft against your own sheet and tell us what to change. Certification is the last step, not the first.
One printed sheet 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 juminhyo translation costs $24.95 per printed sheet, and most residence records are issued on one.
Start my order| What you are sending | Certified total |
|---|---|
| One residence record | $24.95The usual single sheet |
| A household that runs to two sheets | $49.90Larger households continue overleaf |
| Residence record and removed record | $49.90Current address plus the one you left |
| Residence record with a family register | $49.90The pair offices most often ask for |
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
Aiko S.
Portland, OR
“My sheet had been printed without the register-of-origin line and I had no idea it was optional. They spotted it from the scan and told me exactly what to ask the ward office for.”
Spousal filing
Reissued with the missing line
Tom R.
Denver, CO
“I had already left Japan, so my old address existed only as a removed record. The translation made clear what that is, and the office took it without a question.”
Returning from Japan
Removed record accepted
Priya N.
Jersey City, NJ
“Mine had the individual number printed on it. They flagged that nobody had asked for it and offered a copy without it, which is not something I expected to be told.”
Employment file
Number left off, as asked
Questions before ordering
If your record does not match one of these situations, send it anyway. Support replies in 15–30 minutes during support hours.
It is Japan’s record of where a person lives, kept by the city or ward office of that address. It holds the address, the household, the date of moving in, and — when asked for — the register of origin, so it answers where someone resides rather than who their family is.
Yes, when the sheet is translated in full and carries a signed certification. Officers use it to confirm an address and a household against the rest of a filing. Every sheet is built to the AcceptReady™ standard we publish, and a correction traced to the translation is made at no cost.
One records where you live, the other records who your family is. The residence record follows an address and changes each time you move; the family register follows a lineage and stays with the municipality of the register of origin.
It can be, and it is not a printing error. That line is optional at the counter, so a sheet without it was simply requested without it — ask the office for a copy that includes it if your filing turns on family.
Usually not. That number is Japan’s internal identifier and no US filing asks for it, so unless someone specifically requested it you are better off with a copy printed without it.
A removed record, held by the municipality you moved away from. It shows the address as it stood and the date your registration there ended, and we translate it with that status stated plainly.
It is $24.95 per printed sheet, and most records fit on one. A crowded sheet is still a single page, because pages are counted as issued rather than by word count.
In the order Japan prints it, with the ward, district, block, and building numbers left in place. A reader comparing the translation with the original finds the same sequence, which is what an officer checking an address needs.
It can. Records for foreign residents carry nationality and residence-status lines, and those are printed only when requested, so check that yours shows them before a filing that depends on status.
Yes, if the whole sheet is in frame and every character is readable. Lay it flat, keep shadow off the printed area, and include the foot of the page where the office name and seal sit.
Not for a typical USCIS filing — the rule there asks for certification, which every order already carries. A notary is worth adding when a court, a consulate, or a foreign registry has named it, and that step is $19.95 per order.
Typically within 24 hours for a single sheet. Rush and Super Rush are available when a deadline is closer, and the delivery time is shown before you pay.
Four things, and you can check all four yourself. Compare any line of the original juminhyo 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.
What we check before certification
These four come up on immigration filings, employment files, and consular submissions. Each is checked against your scan before the certificate is signed.
Our check: We read which fields your copy carries and tell you before payment when the one your filing needs was left off at the counter.
Our check: The sequence stays as Japan prints it, so the translated address can be laid beside the source line by line.
Our check: Terms with no equivalent are rendered and kept recognisable, with a note rather than a substitution that quietly changes the record.
Our check: They are what make the sheet official and current, so they are translated and marked in place along with the date the copy was issued.
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 residence record answers where a person lives and who lives with them. It is read alongside identity documents, and the reader is checking that the address in the filing is the address on the record.
Because it is printed to order, the useful question is not how to translate it but whether the copy you hold carries the lines the reader is looking for.
A petition that turns on living together is supported by a copy showing every member registered at the address.
Consulates check address history for the period a person lived in Japan, which is where the removed record earns its place.
Employers verify a named set of facts, which is why the attestation form exists alongside the record itself.
Districts and universities confirm an address and the household a student belongs to before enrolling them.
Document glossary
The parts of a Japanese residence record that decide how the translation has to read.
Reference library
Guidance and source links last rechecked .
Ready when you are
Upload the sheet as issued, foot of the page included. If a line your filing needs was left off at the counter, you will hear about it before anything is charged.
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