Birth Certificate
Translation

Certified Birth Certificate
Translation for USCIS

Birth certificate translation is one of the most common requirements for U.S. immigration applications, including green cards, citizenship, visa petitions, and family reunification. USCIS requires a certified English translation of your foreign birth certificate that includes a signed accuracy certificate from the translator.

Selládo provides certified translations of birth certificates from every country — including Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba, China, India, Philippines, and all others. Our translations are USCIS-ready and delivered within 24 hours.

What's included in your
certified translation

Every birth certificate translation from Selládo includes a word-for-word English translation that mirrors the layout of your original document, a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy on company letterhead stating the translator's competence in both languages as required by 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), and a print-ready PDF delivered by email or WhatsApp. We reproduce official elements — registry seals, stamps, signatures, marginal annotations, and reference numbers — so the receiving officer can match every field of the translation to your original at a glance.

If your receiving agency asks for more than a standard certification, we also offer notarized translation ($44.95 per page) and can handle the apostille of your U.S. documents in the same order, so you never have to coordinate between multiple providers. Selládo's lead translator, Antonio Salazar, is listed in the American Translators Association (ATA) Language Services Directory.

Any format, from
any civil registry

Birth certificates vary enormously from country to country, and we translate them all: Mexican actas de nacimiento issued by the Registro Civil (including older handwritten libro copies and modern CURP-format certificates), Colombian registros civiles de nacimiento, Dominican actas issued by the Junta Central Electoral, Brazilian certidões de nascimento, long-form and extract formats from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba, Venezuela, and Peru, as well as certificates from China, India, the Philippines, Haiti, Ukraine, Vietnam, and every other country.

Older documents are our specialty. Handwritten entries, faded typewriter print, church-issued baptismal records used as secondary evidence, and certificates with amendments or marginal notes are translated in full — stamps, seals and marginal notes included — and any truly illegible text is marked following the professional standard USCIS officers expect.

When you need a certified
birth certificate translation

You will be asked for a certified English translation of your birth certificate for a green card application (Form I-485), naturalization (Form N-400), a family petition (Form I-130), consular processing and immigrant visas, asylum cases, a U.S. passport application for a child born abroad, school and university enrollment, marriage license applications, Social Security and REAL ID appointments, and dual citizenship processes. Submitting a foreign-language document without a compliant translation is one of the most common reasons USCIS issues a Request for Evidence (RFE), which can delay a case by months — our certification format is designed to prevent exactly that.

Learn more: How to Translate a Birth Certificate for USCIS

How it works