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.
How much does a Portuguese passport translation cost?+−
The certified translation is priced per physical page. A data page on its own is one page, and each stamp or annotation page you add is another.
Do I need the whole passport translated?+−
Almost never. Most filings want the data page, and some add a visa or entry stamp as evidence of status or travel. Send what you have and we will tell you which pages to drop before you pay.
Will my Portuguese passport translation be accepted by USCIS?+−
The delivery includes your source-document scan, a complete English translation, and a signed and stamped Certificate of Translation Accuracy. 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.
My Brazilian passport already prints English. Do I still need a translation?+−
Usually yes — the Mercosul layout translates the labels, not the values. The naturalidade, the issuing-authority code, and every stamp behind the data page stay Portuguese, and a certification covers the page as you submit it.
Which of my surnames is the last name?+−
All of them, and the passport settles it. The Sobrenome field holds the whole chain, and Brazilian order usually runs the mother’s family name before the father’s, which is the reverse of the Spanish convention. We carry the field across as printed rather than picking one name for a US form.
My passport shows my married name but my certidão shows my maiden name.+−
That is normal in Brazil and worth explaining rather than hiding. A name change on marriage is recorded as an averbação in the margin of the birth record, so the certidão keeps the name at birth. Send both and we translate each as printed, with the link between them visible.
Is the place of birth translated as Brazil?+−
No — as the municipality and state the passport prints, such as Salvador/BA. Collapsing that into a country name removes the detail an officer uses to match the passport against the birth registration.
Do you handle Portuguese, Angolan, and Mozambican passports too?+−
Yes, and each on its own layout. The Portuguese e-passport follows the EU format with a civil identification number, while Angolan, Mozambican, and Cape Verdean issues carry less English and more handwritten detail.
Do you translate the machine-readable lines?+−
Yes, both of them, in full. They repeat the name, number, nationality, and dates in a fixed format that a reviewer may compare against the printed fields.
My passport is expired. Can you still translate it?+−
Yes, and expired Portuguese-language passports are common evidence of prior status or travel. The translation states the validity dates as printed rather than presenting the document as current.
How long does a Portuguese passport translation take?+−
A data page is usually delivered within 24 hours after we receive a clear scan. Adding several stamp or annotation pages extends that slightly, and we confirm the window before work begins.
Is there a word cap on a page?+−
No. We bill the physical page you upload, never a 250-word unit. A stamp-covered page stays one billed page.
Do you need my physical passport?+−
No. A clear scan or phone photo of the pages you need is enough, and the passport never leaves you. Photograph the page flat, in even light, with all four corners visible.
