Marriage Certificate
Translation

Marriage Certificate Translation
for Immigration

Marriage certificate translation is required for virtually all spousal immigration applications — including IR-1/CR-1 immigrant visas, K-1 fiancé visas, I-130 petitions, and green card applications based on marriage. USCIS requires a certified English translation of your foreign marriage certificate that includes the translator's signed accuracy certification.

Selládo provides certified translations of marriage certificates from every country, delivered within 24 hours and certified per 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3).

Built for spousal visas and
marriage-based green cards

When your immigration case is based on marriage, the marriage certificate is the single most scrutinized document in the file. Officers compare dates, places, registry numbers, and the spelling of both spouses' names against every other document you submit. Our translations mirror the exact layout of your original certificate — including seals, stamps, folio numbers, and marginal annotations — and come with a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy that satisfies 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), so nothing in the translation gives the officer a reason to pause your case with a Request for Evidence.

Because spousal cases rarely involve just one document, we translate the complete package in a single order: divorce decrees or death certificates from prior marriages, singleness certificates (constancias de soltería), birth certificates, and police records. One translator handles the whole set, keeping names, dates, and terminology consistent across every document.

Civil, religious, and foreign formats —
we translate them all

We translate actas de matrimonio from Mexico's Registro Civil, partidas de matrimonio from Central and South America, certidões de casamento from Brazil, Dominican actas issued by the Junta Central Electoral, and marriage records from Spain, Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, the Philippines, China, Ukraine, and 190+ other countries. Older handwritten libro entries and certificates carrying apostilles are translated in full, apostille page included.

A note from experience: USCIS normally treats the civil registry certificate as primary evidence of marriage. If you only have a church certificate, we will translate it — and we'll also tell you upfront that you may need the civil version, before you spend money on the wrong document. That kind of guidance is included, free, over WhatsApp.

Where you'll need this
translation

A certified marriage certificate translation is required for the I-130 spousal petition, adjustment of status (I-485) based on marriage, CR-1/IR-1 immigrant visas and consular processing, K-1 fiancé cases after the wedding, removal of conditions (I-751), naturalization under the 3-year marriage rule (N-400), military spouse benefits and DEERS enrollment, name-change procedures at the Social Security office and DMV, health insurance and pension claims, and marriage recognition abroad. Each use has slightly different expectations — tell us where you're filing and we'll format the certification accordingly at no extra charge.

How it works