Cartilla de vacunación
Vaccination card or booklet
Cartillas, carnés, tarjetas, and digital IMSS reprints — the dose table is translated row by row.
Certified Spanish Medical Records Translation
Cartilla de vacunaciónHistoria clínicaInforme médico
Certified English translation for USCIS, immigration medical exams, schools, insurers, and treating physicians.
Ready within 24 hours
Complete translation
Every dose, entry, and unit preserved
Dose dates · abbreviations · lab units · stamps and seals
Certified package
Signed and Stamped Certificate of Accuracy
Company letterhead · translator signature · company stamp
USCISMeets all translation requirementsPrepared in accordance with 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3)
How much does a Spanish medical records translation cost?
1
any length · no word capone or more · PDF, image · up to 25 MB ea.
Your total$24.95
We check your files and confirm the total before you pay
4.9/5 · 2,400+ reviews65+ languages240,000+ documents since 2014
Your filing package
What is included in a certified Spanish medical records translation?
Your package holds three files: your Spanish source copy, the complete English translation, and the signed and stamped Certificate of Translation Accuracy.
- Every dose row, entry, stamp, seal, and legible handwritten note translated
- Cartilla, historia clínica, and informe médico named apart, never merged
- Dose dates from the esquema de vacunación and lab values reproduced digit for digit
- Abbreviations expanded in English with the Spanish original in brackets
- Review the translation and request corrections before certification
Get my certified translation
Files checked and total confirmed before payment
Documents we translate
Which Spanish medical documents can we translate?
One record is enough to start. Upload what you hold, and we confirm the document type, the page count, the price, and the delivery time before you pay.
Historia clínica
Clinical chart or hospital file
Historias, expedientes, resúmenes clínicos, and discharge summaries of any length.
Related records
Other Spanish medical documents
Informes médicos, lab results, prescriptions, constancias, and medical certificates.
Real Spanish-language casework
What can complicate a Spanish medical record translation?
Neither of these is a medical record. Both are Spanish-language records from our files. They show two checks that decide medical packets too: how a digital record without a wet seal stays verifiable, and what to do when a stamp lands on the text.
Spain · electronic record
An official Spanish record had no wet signature or seal
We kept the electronic-signature reference and the verification block, and a translator’s note explained the digital-only record. IMSS cartilla reprints get the same treatment.
Read the case
Mexico · stamp over text
An official stamp landed on top of the printed text
We translated the visible text, described the stamp, and marked what it covered as partially legible instead of guessing. Stamped cartilla entries follow the same rule.
Read the caseCountry-specific evidence
Do I need the cartilla, the historia clínica, or an informe médico?
Which record proves what depends on the country and on who is asking. We name the record you hold — cartilla, historia, expediente, or informe — instead of forcing everything into one template.
Mexico
Cartilla Nacional de Salud — five booklets, one dose table
Mexico issues the cartilla in five age-group versions, all built around the esquema de vacunación. Clinics stamp each dose row, and the table often continues on the back of the page.
Since 2026, IMSS offers a digital reprint of the cartilla online. A printout carries a folio and verification data instead of a wet stamp, so we preserve those and describe the format in a translator’s note.
Bring the translated cartilla to your I-693 appointment. CDC instructions make English translations the applicant’s responsibility, and the doctor can only credit doses dated month, day, and year.
Colombia
Historia clínica by law, carné de vacunación in hand
Colombian regulation defines the historia clínica as a private, chronological record and gives the patient the right to a copy from the EPS or IPS. Copies arrive as long printouts with entry codes on every page.
Childhood doses live on the PAI carné de vacunación, often handwritten. School enrollment and the immigration medical exam frequently need both records, kept clearly apart in English.
Venezuela
Informe médico on the physician’s own letterhead
Venezuelan evidence often arrives as an informe médico typed on letterhead, signed with M.P.P.S. and colegio de médicos numbers, and finished with wet stamps. Those registration lines are the authenticity trail, so each one is translated and labeled.
In humanitarian and family filings the informe can be core evidence. We keep clinical statements exactly as written and mark anything unreadable as illegible rather than smoothing it over.
Spain
Regional health services, increasingly digital
Spanish care runs through regional health services, and informes clínicos are issued per community — increasingly as digital PDFs with a verification code instead of a wet seal. We copy the code and translate the wording around it.
Childhood vaccinations sit in the documento de salud infantil, and formats differ by community. For U.S. schools we translate the dose table with dates reproduced exactly as printed.
How it works
How do I get Spanish medical records translated into English?
Upload your record first. We confirm what it is, the page count, and the price. Then a specialist translates it, a second reviewer checks it, and we certify.
- 01
Upload every page with an entry
Send cartilla spreads, both sides of loose sheets, lab pages, and any RFE, school checklist, or insurer letter that names what they asked for.
Document identified · total confirmed - 02
We translate the clinical data
A Spanish specialist translates dose tables, abbreviations, and units exactly. A second reviewer checks names, dates, vaccine names, and every figure against the source.
Translated · independently checked
- 03CertTranslateCertifiedTranslation
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 Spanish medical records translation cost?
No 250-word cap on dense dose tables.
Certified price
$24.95/ page
Get my certified translation
No payment until file review
Client reviews
What do clients say about their Spanish medical document translations?
4.9 / 52,400+ client reviews
Google Trustpilot Direct feedback
Araceli M.
Phoenix, AZ
“I brought the translated cartilla to my green card medical exam and the doctor credited my childhood vaccines from it. Every dose and date was in the table.”
Mexico · Cartilla for I-693
Doses credited at the exam
Yolanda R.
Houston, TX
“Eight pages of constancias and vaccination records from Mexico. They counted the pages I actually had, no word-count games, and delivered overnight.”
Mexico · 8-page records bundle
Counted as real pages
Andrés P.
Orlando, FL
“The insurer needed my Colombian historia clínica in English. Every lab value and abbreviation stayed traceable, and the claim went through without questions.”
Colombia · Historia clínica
Claim file accepted
Questions before ordering
What does USCIS require for translated Spanish medical records?
The translation rule is always the same: any Spanish-language document in a U.S. filing needs a complete certified English translation. Which medical record you need underneath depends on who is asking.
How much does a Spanish medical records translation cost?+−
The price is $24.95 per physical page, with no word cap. A cartilla runs one to four pages; hospital records go longer. We confirm the count before you pay.
How long does a Spanish medical records translation take?+−
Most one- to three-page orders arrive within 24 hours. For long hospital files, and for records with dense handwriting, we confirm a delivery time before we start.
Will my Spanish medical records 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.
Does USCIS need my cartilla de vacunación translated into English?+−
USCIS rarely reads your cartilla — the civil surgeon completing Form I-693 does. CDC instructions make reliable English translations of vaccination records the applicant’s responsibility, not the clinic’s. Bring the translation to the exam appointment.
Does USCIS require notarization or an apostille for medical records?+−
USCIS generally asks for a certified English translation, not a notarized one and not an apostille. A school, insurer, or foreign authority may set its own rules, so follow that recipient’s checklist.
What if my cartilla is handwritten or hard to read?+−
Readable handwriting is translated in full. Anything genuinely unreadable is marked as illegible rather than guessed — a certified translation never invents a date or a dose. If a page is too faint, we ask for a better copy first.
Do you translate medical records from every Spanish-speaking country?+−
Yes. We handle cartillas, historias clínicas, carnés, and informes from Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and every other Spanish-speaking country, matched to the format each system actually uses.
What happens if some dose rows have no dates?+−
The doctor can only credit doses dated month, day, and year, under CDC instructions. We translate exactly what the record shows and mark incomplete rows transparently. The civil surgeon then decides between repeating a dose and testing immunity.
My cartilla is a digital IMSS reprint without a stamp. Can you translate it?+−
Yes. The 2026 IMSS reprint carries a folio and verification data instead of a wet stamp. We translate the record, preserve the verification block, and add a translator’s note describing the digital format.
Should I translate the full historia clínica or just the resumen clínico?+−
Translate the record you were asked to file. A resumen clínico is often enough for a new physician; insurers and courts usually name the full set they want. If you are unsure, send both and we will price them separately.
What we check before certification
What can make a translated medical record unclear to a reviewer?
These issues come up again and again in Spanish medical packets. The translation should show the doses, the dates, and the chronology exactly, not leave the reviewer to reconstruct them.
01
Dose rows with incomplete dates left unflagged
Our check: We translate the dates the record shows and mark incomplete ones transparently. The civil surgeon needs month, day, and year to credit a dose.
02
Clinical abbreviations guessed into the wrong English
Our check: Each abbreviation is expanded in English with the Spanish original in brackets — TA, FC, and c/8 h stay traceable to the source.
03
A digital record submitted without its verification block
Our check: IMSS reprints and Spanish regional PDFs authenticate by code, not seal. We preserve the code and describe the format in a translator’s note.
04
Patient name spelled differently across the packet
Our check: Before we certify, we cross-check the name on the cartilla or historia against the passport spelling used in the rest of your filing.
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 we certify. If a reviewer later asks for a translation-related correction, the revision is free.
Start my translationCommon filing contexts
When do I need a certified medical records translation?
The immigration medical exam is the most common trigger: the civil surgeon reviews written vaccination records, and the English translation is the applicant’s job to bring.
Send the Spanish record together with its certified English translation. The translation must not replace the source, shorten it, or quietly fix it.
I-693
Immigration medical exam
The civil surgeon credits vaccine doses from written records. Fully dated, translated entries keep doses from being repeated.
I-485
Adjustment and humanitarian evidence
Medical evidence filed with USCIS needs a complete certified English translation of every Spanish-language page.
Schools
Enrollment and pediatric intake
Districts and pediatricians map dose histories against state checklists. A translated cartilla answers them in their own format.
Claims / court
Insurance and legal review
Insurers and courts read treatment chronology as evidence. Certified translation keeps every value auditable against the source.
Document glossary
What do common Spanish medical terms mean in English?
These terms often appear together, but they name different documents, offices, or parts of the record.
- Cartilla de vacunación
- The vaccination booklet — in Mexico, part of the Cartilla Nacional de Salud.
- Esquema de vacunación
- The dose schedule: vaccine, dose number, and date per row.
- Dosis / refuerzo
- Dose and booster — the entries a civil surgeon credits.
- Historia clínica
- The chronological clinical record; a defined legal document in Colombia.
- Expediente clínico
- The Mexican clinical file kept by hospitals and clinics.
- Resumen clínico
- The clinical summary hospitals release on request.
- Informe médico
- A physician’s report on letterhead, common as standalone evidence.
- Cédula profesional
- The professional license number that authenticates a Mexican clinician.
Reference library
Where can I verify medical document requirements?
Guidance and source links last rechecked .
More from CertTranslate
Official references
- Vaccination requirement for immigrants · USCIS Policy Manual
- Vaccination Technical Instructions for civil surgeons · CDC
- Form I-693, Report of Immigration Medical Examination · USCIS
- Cartillas Nacionales de Salud · Secretaría de Salud (Mexico)
- Resolución 1995 de 1999 — historia clínica · Ministerio de Salud (Colombia)
Ready when you are
Ready to translate your Spanish medical records into English?
Send what you have: the cartilla, the historia clínica, the informe, or the whole folder. We confirm the record type, the page count, the price, and the delivery time.
Get my certified translation
No payment until file review