Certified Passport Translation

Mexican passports often include bilingual fields, but supporting visa and endorsement pages may still require full certified translation.

Name components and accent marks must be preserved exactly to avoid mismatch against civil records and USCIS forms.

Entry and exit stamp notes are translated when those pages are submitted as timeline evidence.

If an older passport is expired, it can still be translated when it supports travel history or identity continuity.

Mexico is a Hague Apostille Convention member, so apostille is the standard legalization route when non-U.S. authorities request it.

Our QA process checks passport number, issuing authority, and date fields character by character before delivery.

Chinese passports frequently involve transliteration differences between source script, pinyin, and other identity documents.

We preserve source spelling and flag potential mismatches against provided U.S. filing records before final delivery.

Relevant visa page annotations and entry notes are translated in full when they are part of the submission packet.

MRZ lines are not treated as decorative text; we verify core identity fields against bio page entries for consistency.

China is a Hague Apostille Convention member, so apostille is commonly used when legalization is required outside USCIS workflows.

If multiple passports are submitted, each document scope is separated clearly so reviewers can track chronology.

Indian passports often include clear English bio fields, but associated visa endorsements and handwritten notes may still require translation.

We translate submitted non-English entries exactly and keep passport identifiers unchanged across all translated pages.

If place names or parent names vary across documents, we preserve source wording and flag consistency risks for review.

Expired passport pages can still be translated when they are needed to show prior identity or travel history.

India is a Hague Apostille Convention member, so apostille is typically used for non-U.S. legalization requests.

Destination-specific notarization is added only when required, so users avoid unnecessary extra steps.

Russian passports may present patronymic structures and transliteration variants that must remain source-accurate in translation.

We do not normalize names silently to match other records, because silent edits create compliance risk.

Relevant visa pages and border annotations are translated when they support filing timeline evidence.

Official stamps and handwritten officer notes are included, with [illegible] markings only where source text cannot be read confidently.

Russia is a Hague Apostille Convention member, so apostille is generally used when legalization is requested for non-U.S. filing destinations.

Document numbering and issuance entries are double-checked before certification release.

Arabic-script passports require careful transliteration alignment with existing passport and immigration record spelling.

We translate right-to-left field content in a structured format that keeps labels and values clearly mapped for reviewers.

Visa and endorsement pages with Arabic notes are translated fully when those pages are included in submission scope.

Emergency travel documents and temporary identity papers from the same authority can also be translated in certified format.

Saudi Arabia is a Hague Apostille Convention member, so apostille is typically used when legalization is required by non-U.S. authorities.

Our QA checks include name order consistency and date-field verification across every translated page.

Brazilian passports print labels in Portuguese, English, and Spanish under the Mercosul layout. That makes the page look translated when the values behind those labels are not.

The naturalidade field gives a municipality and a state abbreviation, such as São Paulo/SP. Both are kept, because that pairing matches the passport to the cartório that registered the birth.

The Sobrenome field can hold two to four family names. Brazilian order usually runs the mother’s family name before the father’s, and all of them are carried across as printed.

A married name on the passport often differs from the certidão de nascimento. The averbação in the record’s margin connects the two, so send it alongside.

Philippine passports are issued in English. For most filings there is nothing on the data page for a translator to render.

The supporting record usually needs the work instead. That means a PSA birth or marriage certificate with Tagalog or Cebuano annotations, or an older local registry entry.

If an office asks for a certified translation of an English passport, confirm which document they meant. Ordering one anyway rarely helps.

Where a passport arrives with records in another Philippine language, we translate those and certify the set together. The names then agree across it.

Salvadoran passports print the DUI, the national identity number the rest of the packet is matched against.

The DUI is copied digit for digit and labelled apart from the passport number. Two long identifiers on one page are easy to transpose.

Both surnames stay in the order the passport prints them. Collapsing apellido paterno and apellido materno into one name stops a packet matching itself.

Expired books are still translated where they evidence prior status or travel. The validity dates are stated as printed, not presented as current.

Cuban passports are extended periodically rather than replaced. The extension endorsements are printed in Spanish on their own pages.

A filing that turns on travel or status history usually needs those endorsement pages too. Send them with the data page.

The passport carries both surnames. The translation keeps them in the printed order rather than choosing one to fit a US form.

Cuban civil records are commonly filed beside the passport. We check names and dates across the whole set before certifying.

Dominican passports carry the cédula number beside the passport number. A reviewer who mistakes one for the other reads the document as inconsistent.

Each identifier is labelled for what it is. The cédula is never filed as a passport number, or the reverse.

Both surnames are kept in the printed order. That matches the acta de nacimiento the passport is usually submitted with.

Entry and exit stamps are translated with their port and date. Travel history is read straight off them.

Vietnamese names run family name first — Nguyễn Văn A. A form expecting given-name-first order can turn one person into two.

We keep the printed order and label each element. The passport then agrees with the academic and civil records beside it.

Diacritics carry meaning in Vietnamese and are dropped from the machine-readable lines. One page can show the same name two ways.

The printed form is reproduced with its diacritics. The encoded lines are transcribed separately rather than merged into one spelling.

Guatemalan passports print the CUI, the personal identification code carried across RENAP civil records.

The CUI is transcribed exactly and labelled separately. RENAP records are compared against it directly.

Both surnames stay in the printed order. Department and municipio names are rendered as printed rather than approximated.

Where the packet includes a RENAP birth certificate, names and dates are checked across both documents before certification.

Korean passports romanize the name from Hangul. The same family name is registered as Kim or Gim, Lee or Yi, depending on the standard applied.

The passport spelling is the one a reviewer treats as controlling. We copy it exactly and flag where a diploma or transcript uses another.

Korea proves civil status with the 기본증명서 and 가족관계증명서 rather than a Western-style certificate. Those usually accompany the passport.

Name order is family name first on the Korean side. The printed arrangement is kept rather than rearranged into Western sequence.

A Colombian passport is read against the registro civil de nacimiento held at a notaría. The NUIP ties the two together.

The cédula and the passport number are labelled separately. Both are long numeric identifiers on the same page.

Both surnames are carried in the printed order. That is how the registro civil records them.

Endorsement pages are translated when a filing asks for status or travel history rather than identity alone.

Haitian passports encode the year of birth with two digits. A value like 35 reads as either 1935 or 2035.

We take the century from the printed date field rather than the encoded line. Where the two genuinely disagree, we say so.

Legalization stamps run across several pages in French. A filing that wants the complete record needs those as well as the data page.

Haitian packets often pair the passport with Archives Nationales civil records. The same name can appear there with different spelling or accents.

Since 2016 the Ukrainian ID-card passport prints no residence address at all. Registration moved into the state register and is issued as a separate certificate.

An office asking a card holder for proof of address wants the довідка про реєстрацію. No translation of the card itself can supply it.

The older booklet passport is Ukrainian throughout. It records registration, marriage, and children as stamps across its pages.

Passport spellings follow the 2010 romanization standard. Serhii on the passport and Sergey on a Soviet-era record are the same person.

A German passport prints the surname with its umlaut and expands it in the encoded lines. MÜLLER and MUELLER both appear on the same page.

US forms then often produce a third spelling by dropping the diaeresis. The relationship between the printed forms has to be stated rather than assumed.

Where the family name has changed, the name at birth sits in its own Geburtsname field. That is the field matching the Geburtsurkunde.

German law allows a doctoral degree in the name field. A surname line reading DR MUSTERMANN is a degree beside a name, not a compound surname.

Egyptian documents carry a fourteen-digit national number encoding the date and governorate of birth. It is compared directly against the birth certificate.

One wrong digit makes the two documents disagree. The number is transcribed character by character and labelled apart from the passport number.

The full name chain is printed in Arabic. Its middle elements are the father’s and grandfather’s given names, not middle names.

Where a page carries both Arabic and a Latin transliteration, both are shown. We do not pick the one matching the rest of the packet.

Polish passports carry the PESEL, the national identification number that encodes the date of birth.

Polish diacritics such as ł, ą, and ż are flattened in the encoded lines. The printed name and the encoded one differ on a single page.

The printed spelling is reproduced with its diacritics. That is the form the USC civil records use.

Where a filing includes an odpis zupełny or odpis skrócony, names and places are checked across both documents.