Complete English translations of foreign marriage and civil partnership certificates for join-family visas, spousal residence permission and Irish citizenship by marriage.
A certified marriage certificate translation for Ireland gives Immigration Service Delivery (ISD) a complete English version of your certificate, with the translator's signed confirmation of accuracy, the date and their contact details. VisaDocTranslation prepares it at €19.19 per page, in euro, delivered by the next working day.
In an Irish family application the marriage certificate does the heavy lifting: it's the document that turns your spouse into your sponsor. It deserves a translation that matches the original line for line, stamps and all. For the rest of the file, see our certified translation for Ireland page.
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Yes, if the certificate isn't in English or Irish. ISD asks for a full translation that includes the translator's confirmation of accuracy, the date, their full name and signature, and their contact details.
Join-family applications, whether you're joining an Irish citizen or a non-EEA family member living here, rest on proving the relationship, and the marriage certificate is the headline evidence. ISD's checklist asks for the original and the certified translation together, and it returns original marriage, birth and death certificates once it's finished with them. (Bank statements, less sentimentally, it keeps.)
If you married in an EU or EEA country or Switzerland, ISD also accepts the Extract of a European marriage certificate issued under the convention on multilingual extracts from civil status records, and an EU certificate with a Multilingual Standard Form doesn't need a translation.
For join-family visas, ISD asks that marriage certificates issued outside the EEA or Switzerland are attested or apostilled by the foreign ministry of the issuing country. Certificates issued within the EEA or Switzerland don't need that step.
Arrange the apostille before you order, so we translate the certificate and its apostille together. ISD's join-family checklists also ask that translations made outside the EEA or Switzerland are themselves attested or apostilled in the country where the translation was done. Our translations are made in the UK, so if that line applies to your application, message us on WhatsApp or email before you order to ask whether an apostilled translation is available.
An apostille is, in effect, a certificate certifying that your certificate is a real certificate. Our page on apostille translation explains how the two pieces fit together.
If your marriage or civil partnership certificate isn't in English or Irish, the Citizenship Division asks for a translation by a professional translation service, signed and with the translator's contact details, uploaded with a copy of the original.
Citizenship through marriage to an Irish citizen has its own rules. You must show you've lived on the island of Ireland for the 12 months immediately before applying and for two other years in the previous four, and you provide documents in joint names covering the three months before the application. Most of that evidence is Irish and already in English; the marriage certificate is often the one document that needs translating.
The application is online, so you upload our PDF directly. If your birth certificate is also foreign, translate it in the same order so names line up across both documents.
€19.19 per page for next-working-day delivery, or €35.99 per page for rush delivery within 8 hours. Most marriage certificates are one or two pages.
Every page includes the translation, the signed certification statement and a quality check, and every document includes 2 free revisions. Two-page certificates are common where the reverse carries registry notes, a later annotation or the apostille, and we translate all of it, because a 'full' translation with a missing back page isn't one.
You'll see the total on the quote form before you pay, charged in euro.
Usually, yes. A certified translation stays a valid translation of that certificate; what can change between applications is whether the receiving body wants a recently issued copy of the certificate itself, so check each checklist.
Couples typically use the same translation for the first visa, the residence permission that follows and, later, citizenship by marriage. Keep the PDF safe: printing it again is free, ordering it again isn't.
If an earlier marriage ended in divorce, ISD and the Registrar will usually want to see that decree too. Our divorce certificate translation for Ireland page covers what they look for.
It's not a good idea. ISD expects a translation from a professional translator or translation company, with a signed confirmation of accuracy, the date and contact details. A translation by the couple or a relative is likely to be questioned.
If every entry already appears in English, you may not need one. If only the headings are bilingual and the entries are in another language, the entries still need translating. If in doubt, check with ISD.
Yes. ISD accepts the Extract of a European marriage certificate issued under the convention on multilingual extracts as proof of a marriage within the EEA or Switzerland, without a separate translation.
ISD says original marriage, birth and death certificates are returned. Other documents, such as bank statements and letters of invitation, are not, so keep copies of everything you send.
Yes. Civil partnership certificates and registered partnership records are translated in exactly the same way as marriage certificates, with the same signed certification.
Yes. Whether a religious certificate is enough on its own depends on the country where you married and the application you're making, so check with ISD which certificate it expects.
Standard orders are delivered by the next working day and rush orders within 8 hours, as a PDF by email that you can upload or print.
Yes. Tell us the passport spellings when you order and we'll use them throughout. Every document includes 2 free revisions if anything needs changing after delivery.
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