Certified English translations of full birth certificates for INZ residence, partnership and visitor visa applications, with every name, stamp and margin note carried across.
Birth certificate translation for New Zealand is usually one of the first jobs on a residence checklist: Immigration New Zealand (INZ) wants a full birth certificate for each person in the application, in English or with a certified English translation. VisaDocTranslation translates the whole certificate, including registrar stamps, marginal notes and the parents' details INZ specifically looks for.
The same certificate tends to reappear later in the file, next to a passport and ID translation and, for couples, a marriage certificate translation. It pays to get the spellings consistent from the start.
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Yes, if it isn't in English. INZ asks for a certified English translation of every non-English document in a residence application, and for visitor visas it asks for a full English translation by someone other than you, your family or your immigration adviser.
INZ doesn't translate documents itself, and it won't accept a translation made by the applicant, a relative or the adviser helping with the application. What it wants is a translation certified as correct by someone competent in both languages, signed or stamped by the translator or translation business, and on the business's letterhead where possible. You submit it together with a copy of the original certificate, so the case officer can check one against the other.
Ours are prepared by professional translators working to ISO 17100, then checked before delivery. The translation follows the layout of the original, boxes and all, so a case officer comparing the two isn't left playing spot-the-difference with a registry form from 1987.
A full birth certificate shows your full name, date of birth, place of birth and the names of both parents. INZ asks for this version rather than a short extract that leaves the parents out.
Many registries issue more than one kind of certificate: a short abstract for everyday use and a fuller record for legal purposes. INZ wants the full one, because the parents' names are how it links family members across an application. A certificate that forgets to mention the parents is, as far as INZ is concerned, only half a birth certificate.
If your birth was never registered, or the registry can't issue a full certificate, INZ accepts a non-availability or birth-not-registered certificate instead, together with your passport or certificate of identity and one other identity document. We translate those too, at the same per-page rate. If your certificate is handwritten or decades old, our guide to handwritten and old document translation explains how faint or illegible entries are marked.
Choose the standard option for residence visas, including Skilled Migrant, partnership and parent categories. Choose the named-translator option if the birth certificate supports a visitor visa or a university application.
The two options differ in who signs. The standard option is a company-certified translation with a signed statement of accuracy on letterhead, which is what INZ describes for residence applications. The named-translator option is signed personally by a professional translator and lists their full name, contact details and qualifications, which matches the details INZ asks visitor visa applicants to give about whoever translated their documents.
Both options are in the facts box on this page with their delivery times. If your family is filing more than one application, say a visitor visa now and residence later, order the option for the application you're submitting first.
Order a certified translation of each child's full birth certificate showing your name as a parent. INZ uses these to confirm your relationship to every dependent child included in the application.
When you include children in a residence application, INZ asks for proof of identity (usually a passport) and proof that they're yours. The full birth certificate does the second job, which is why it needs to show your name as well as the child's. Where a certificate can't do that, INZ also considers adoption papers or household registration documents; our passport and ID translation page covers registers such as the hukou and koseki.
Upload every certificate in one order and we'll keep the family name spelled the same way throughout. If a parent's name is transliterated differently on the certificate and in the passport, mention it in the order notes. Tell us your preferred spelling when you order so the translation matches your passport.
Both options are delivered by the next UK working day. The standard option also offers rush delivery within 8 hours at £29.99 per page.
A typical birth certificate is a single page, so the cost is usually one page at £16.79 for the standard option or £41.99 for the named translator. Every document includes 2 free revisions, which is handy if your adviser spots a spelling they'd like matched to a passport. Translations arrive as a PDF by email, ready to upload to your online application.
Start on the online quote form, or go back to the New Zealand immigration translation overview for the other documents INZ is likely to ask for.
No. INZ does not accept translations made by the applicant, any member of their family or the immigration adviser helping with the application. The translation has to come from an independent translator.
INZ asks for the translation to be submitted together with the original document or a copy of it. For online applications that usually means uploading a clear scan of the original next to the English translation.
INZ asks for a full birth certificate showing your parents' names. If you only have a short extract, request the full version from the issuing registry before ordering the translation, so you only pay to translate the document INZ needs.
Yes. Every stamp, seal, signature, marginal note and handwritten entry is translated or described, so the English version accounts for everything on the original.
The standard option at £16.79 per page. The Skilled Migrant Category is a residence visa, and residence applications are covered by the standard company-certified translation.
The named-translator option at £41.99 per page. Visitor visa applicants have to give INZ the translator's full name, contact details and qualifications, and this option includes them.
Every document includes 2 free revisions. If you or your adviser spot something to change, such as a name spelling, send it to us and we'll update the translation.
INZ's translation rules ask for a certified translation signed or stamped by the translator or translation business, not a notarised one. If your application checklist asks for anything extra, check before ordering.
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