Full English translations of foreign birth certificates for join-family visas, Irish citizenship applications and marriage notification with the Civil Registration Service.
A certified birth certificate translation for Ireland is a complete English version of your foreign birth certificate, signed and dated by the translator, that Immigration Service Delivery (ISD), the Citizenship Division and the Civil Registration Service can read alongside the original. VisaDocTranslation prepares it at €19.19 per page, charged in euro and delivered by the next working day.
Birth certificates turn up in more Irish applications than almost any other document: join-family visas, a child's residence permission, naturalisation and the three-month marriage notification. One good translation usually covers all of them, which is about as close as Irish paperwork gets to a bargain. Our certified translation for Ireland page covers the wider picture.
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Yes, if it isn't in English or Irish. ISD asks for a full translation that includes the translator's confirmation that it is accurate, the date, the translator's full name and signature, and their contact details. Every VisaDocTranslation translation includes all four.
The word ISD uses is 'full', and it means it. The translation covers the registration number, the registrar's notes, the annotations added years later and the stamp in the corner that nobody has been able to read since the day it was pressed. A summary of 'the important bits' is exactly the kind of thing that gets an application parked while ISD writes back for more.
If the certificate was issued in an EU country, ask the issuing office for a Multilingual Standard Form (MSF). ISD says that where an MSF comes with an EU-issued birth, marriage, death or divorce certificate, no translation is needed. For everything else, upload the whole certificate, front and back, and we translate every page.
For join-family visas, ISD asks that birth certificates issued outside the EEA or Switzerland are attested or apostilled by the foreign ministry of the country that issued them. That step happens on the original document, in the issuing country, before the translation.
Arrange the apostille first and send us the certificate with it attached, so the apostille is translated as part of the same document. Translating a certificate and then watching it come back with a fresh stamp on the reverse means paying twice for one piece of paper.
The same join-family checklists add a step for the translation itself: translations made outside the EEA or Switzerland should also be attested or apostilled by the foreign ministry of the country where the translation was done. Our translations are made in the UK, so if your checklist includes that line, message us on WhatsApp or email before you order to ask whether an apostilled translation is available for your documents. The citizenship application, by contrast, asks for a certified translation uploaded with a copy of the original.
Each partner brings their birth certificate to the marriage notification appointment, and documents that aren't in English or Irish must come with translations. A certificate issued outside the EU may also need an apostille or legalisation, so check with your local Civil Registration Service before the appointment.
Ireland requires at least three months' notice of an intention to marry, given in person to a Registrar. It is a long wait for a short appointment, so arriving with a complete set matters more than usual: originals, colour photocopies and a translation of anything not in English or Irish.
If one of you is also applying to ISD, bring the same translated birth certificate you'll use there; there's no need for two versions. Planning the rest of the wedding paperwork? Our page on marriage certificate translation for Ireland picks up where this one ends.
€19.19 per page with next-working-day delivery, or €35.99 per page for rush delivery within 8 hours. Most birth certificates are one page; long-form extracts and certificates with an apostille attached often run to two.
The price covers the translation, the signed certification statement and a quality check against the original, and every document includes 2 free revisions. If a name needs to match the spelling in your passport exactly, tell us when you order; if spellings differ between your documents, our guide to names spelled differently across documents explains how translators handle it.
Old handwritten registers are welcome too; our notes on handwritten and older documents explain what to send. Upload everything on the quote form and you'll see the total before you pay.
Usually, yes. A certified translation is the same document whichever Irish body receives it, and ISD, the Citizenship Division and the Civil Registration Service all accept translations from a professional translation service.
Applicants often reuse a birth certificate translation across a visa, a residence permission renewal and, years later, naturalisation. The citizenship application is online, so you upload the certified translation alongside a copy of the original; join-family visa applications want hard copies, so you print it. Our PDF works both ways.
If your file also includes a parent's marriage certificate or a passport or national ID card, upload them in the same order so names and dates are translated consistently across the set.
Not if you supply a Multilingual Standard Form (MSF) with it. ISD says a translation isn't required for an EU-issued birth certificate accompanied by an MSF. Without one, a full certified translation is needed.
No. ISD and the Citizenship Division expect a translation from a professional translator or translation company, with a confirmation of accuracy, the date, a signature and contact details. A translation by the applicant or a relative is likely to be queried.
The citizenship guidance asks for translations carried out by a professional translation service and accompanied by the translator's contact details and signature, uploaded with a copy of the original. Our certified translations include those details.
Yes. If the apostille is attached to or printed on the certificate, upload it with the document and we translate it in the same order, so the original and its apostille read as one document in English.
Irish immigration and citizenship guidance generally asks for a certified translation, not a notarised one. If a particular office asks you for something more, check exactly what it needs before you order.
Standard orders are delivered by the next working day and rush orders within 8 hours, as a PDF by email. Working days follow the UK calendar.
Tell us how your name appears in your passport when you order and we'll use that spelling consistently. If anything still needs adjusting after delivery, every document includes 2 free revisions.
Yes. Long-form certificates, extracts from civil registers and handwritten records are all translated in full, including marginal notes, stamps and signatures.
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