Certidão averbada
Marriage certificate carrying the divorce
For Brazil this is usually the document you need. One page is enough to start.
Certified Portuguese Divorce Certificate Translation
Certidão de casamento com averbação de divórcioSentença de divórcioEscritura pública de divórcio
Certified English translation for USCIS, spouse and fiancé(e) petitions, naturalization filings, courts, and other marital-history review.
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Complete submitted record
Finality and court structure preserved
Case caption · ruling · finality · seals · registration notes
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USCISMeets all translation requirementsPrepared in accordance with 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3)
How much does a Portuguese divorce certificate translation cost?
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Your filing package
What is included in a certified Portuguese divorce translation?
You get three files: a scan of your Portuguese record, the full English translation, and a signed and stamped Certificate of Translation Accuracy.
- Every printed field, seal, stamp, and margin entry translated
- The averbação translated in full, not summarized as “divorced”
- Certidão, sentença, and escritura pública kept apart, never merged into one
- The property regime named as the record names it, not guessed
- Review the translation and request corrections before certification
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Documents we translate
Which Portuguese divorce documents can we translate?
Have one document? That is enough to start. Upload the record you want translated. We confirm the page count, the price, and the delivery time before you pay.
Sentença / escritura
Court ruling or notarial deed
We translate short rulings and full multi-page decisions alike, property and custody parts included.
Related records
Other Portuguese-language divorce papers
Apostilles, CNJ verification pages, older certidões, and Portuguese assentos with averbamentos.
Real Portuguese-language casework
What can complicate a Portuguese divorce or civil-record translation?
The first case follows an averbação from the other direction, when a U.S. decree had to be written into a Brazilian record. The other two are the documents a divorce lands on: the marriage certificate and its property regime, and a certidão carrying margin entries.
Brazil · averbação
A U.S. decree had to be written into a Brazilian record
We translated the decree and its apostille for the cartório, keeping the court, the case number, and the finality wording in the form the averbação needs.
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Brazil · property regime
The property regime was a printed field, not a footnote
We rendered comunhão parcial de bens as the regime it is rather than a loose phrase, because that line decides what a divorce actually divides.
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Portugal · averbamentos
The margin entries changed what the record said
We translated every averbamento in place and in order, so the name on the certificate and the name on the passport could be read as one person.
Read the caseWhich record proves the divorce
Is there a Brazilian divorce certificate?
No, and that surprises most filers. Brazil writes the divorce into the marriage record instead of issuing a separate certificate. Portugal works the same way. We name the record you actually hold.
Brazil
Certidão de casamento com averbação de divórcio
The proof is your marriage certificate, re-issued by the cartório after the divorce is written into it. That annotation is the averbação, and the updated certidão is what a Brazilian consulate accepts as proof.
This is why the copy in your drawer may not work. A certidão printed before the averbação still shows the marriage standing, however old the divorce is.
Check the issue date on your certidão before ordering. If it predates the averbação, ask the cartório for a fresh copy first, then send us that one.
Brazil · how it was granted
Sentença de divórcio or escritura pública
A contested divorce ends in a judge’s sentença. A consensual one can be signed at a cartório as an escritura pública. That route has been open since 2007, where there are no minor or incapable children and both spouses have a lawyer.
Either document grants the divorce; the averbação records it. We translate whichever you hold and keep the route visible, because the two are not interchangeable.
Portugal
Averbamento on the marriage record
A divorce by mutual consent is decided at the Conservatória do Registo Civil rather than in court. Once decreed, it is noted on the marriage entry automatically.
So the proof is again a certidão de casamento, this time carrying an averbamento. Ask for the cópia integral, which prints every margin entry rather than a summary.
Apostille
Electronic seals and verification codes
A Brazilian certidão usually carries a matrícula number and a digital seal. Apostilles for Brazil are issued online through the CNJ. Portugal runs its own apostille system.
We reproduce the codes and translate the wording around them. What we do not do is certify that a code verifies; that check belongs to the office you file with.
How it works
How do I get a Portuguese divorce document translated into English?
Upload the record first. We name the document, confirm the full page set and the price, then translate, check, and certify it.
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Upload every page you have
Send the certidão, the sentença or escritura, the apostille, and any back sides. Add the USCIS notice or checklist that names what they asked for.
Document identified · total confirmed - 02
We translate the record and the margins
A Portuguese specialist translates the registry or court text. A second reviewer checks the names, the dates, the property regime, and every margin entry.
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Review and receive the certified set
Ask for fixes before we certify. You then get the source copy, the full English translation, and the signed and stamped Certificate of Translation Accuracy.
Certified · typically within 24 hours
How much does a Portuguese divorce translation cost?
No 250-word cap on dense registry pages.
Certified price
$24.95/ page
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Client reviews
What do clients say about their Portuguese divorce translations?
4.9 / 52,400+ client reviews
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Fernanda L.
Deerfield Beach, FL
“My proof of divorce was the marriage certificate with the averbação written in the margin. They translated the whole annotation, not just a line saying I was divorced.”
Brazil · Certidão with averbação
Annotation translated in full
Pedro S.
Elizabeth, NJ
“Mine was a consensual divorce done at a cartório, not in court. The translation made clear it was a public deed, which is what my attorney wanted to see.”
Brazil · Escritura pública
Notarial route kept visible
Mariana R.
Framingham, MA
“The Portuguese certificate had several averbamentos added over the years. Each one was translated in place and in order, so the name history was easy to follow.”
Portugal · Cópia integral
Every margin entry in order
Questions before ordering
What does USCIS require for a translated Portuguese divorce document?
The translation rule is always the same: file the Portuguese-language evidence with a full certified English translation. Which record proves the divorce depends on the country and on how it was granted.
How much does a Portuguese divorce translation cost?+−
The price is $24.95 per physical page, with no word cap. A certidão is usually one page, even when the margin is dense. A court ruling can run several. We confirm the count before you pay.
How long does a Portuguese divorce translation take?+−
Most one- to three-page orders arrive within 24 hours. For long rulings, and for older certidões with handwritten margins, we confirm a delivery time before we start.
Will my Portuguese divorce translation be accepted by USCIS?+−
Your package holds the source copy, a full English translation, and a signed and stamped Certificate of Translation Accuracy. If USCIS raises a translation issue, we revise it free. That does not replace holding the right record in the first place.
Where is my Brazilian divorce certificate?+−
There is not one. Brazil writes the divorce into the marriage record as an averbação, so your proof is a certidão de casamento re-issued after that annotation was added.
My certidão does not mention the divorce. What now?+−
Your copy was almost certainly printed before the averbação was made. Ask the cartório for a current certidão. Translating the old one will not make the divorce appear on it.
Do I also need the sentença or the escritura?+−
Often not, if the averbada certidão proves what you were asked to prove. Send both when you have them and we will name each before you pay, so you only translate what your filing needs.
Which divorce date should match my USCIS form?+−
Use the date the form asks for, if the record backs it up. The ruling, the deed, and the averbação can carry different dates. The translation labels each one instead of picking for you.
What is comunhão parcial de bens, and does it matter?+−
It is the property regime the marriage ran under, printed as its own field. It decides what a divorce divides, so we translate it as a named regime rather than a loose phrase.
Does USCIS require notarization or an apostille?+−
USCIS generally asks for a certified English translation, not a notarized one and not an apostille. A court, consulate, or foreign office may set its own rules, so follow that recipient’s checklist.
Do you translate records from Angola, Mozambique, or Cape Verde?+−
Yes. Portuguese-language civil records from any country come through the same team. We name the issuing office as it appears rather than mapping it onto a Brazilian or Portuguese form.
What we check before certification
What can make a translated Portuguese divorce record unclear to USCIS?
These issues come up again and again in Portuguese-language marital-history packets. The translation should show the annotation, the dates, and the record type, not leave the officer to work them out.
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The averbação is reduced to the word “divorced”
Our check: We translate the annotation in full, with its date, its office, and the ruling or deed it refers to. That block is the evidence, not a label.
02
A certidão issued before the averbação is submitted
Our check: We compare the issue date against the annotation and tell you before work starts, because no translation can add a divorce the record does not carry.
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The property regime is dropped or loosely paraphrased
Our check: Comunhão parcial, comunhão universal, and separação de bens are distinct regimes. We name each one instead of writing around it.
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Margin entries are moved, reordered, or merged
Our check: We keep every averbamento in its own place and in the order the registry wrote it, so a name history reads as a sequence.
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 USCIS contexts
When do I need a certified Portuguese divorce translation?
USCIS reads divorce evidence to see whether an earlier marriage ended lawfully, and whether both people were then free to marry again.
Send the Portuguese-language record together with its certified English translation. The translation must not replace the source, shorten it, or quietly fix it.
I-130 / I-485
Spouse petition and adjustment
Proof that an earlier marriage ended supports the current marriage in a family-based case.
I-129F
K-1 fiancé(e) petition
Both parties must show that prior marriages ended and that they are legally free to marry.
N-400
Naturalization and name change
USCIS asks for records showing an earlier marriage ended lawfully. A name change on the form has to be evidenced too.
Visa / court
Consular or state-law review
Which civil record counts, and whether it needs a stamp, follows the destination’s own checklist.
Document glossary
What do common Portuguese divorce terms mean in English?
These terms often show up together, but they name different documents, offices, or stages of the divorce.
- Averbação / averbamento
- The annotation that writes a later event into a civil record.
- Certidão de casamento
- Marriage certificate; in Brazil it carries the divorce annotation.
- Sentença de divórcio
- The judge’s ruling granting the divorce.
- Escritura pública de divórcio
- Notarial deed used for a consensual divorce at a Brazilian cartório.
- Cartório
- The office that issues civil records and adds later notes to them.
- Conservatória do Registo Civil
- Portugal’s civil registry, which also decides mutual-consent divorces.
- Cópia integral
- A full copy that prints every margin entry rather than a summary.
- Comunhão parcial de bens
- Partial community property; it sets what a divorce splits.
Reference library
Where can I verify Portuguese divorce document requirements?
Guidance and source links last rechecked .
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