Birth Certificate Translation for UK Visa Applications

It comes up almost everywhere. Spouse visa: yours and your partner's. Dependent applications: child plus both parents. Settlement, citizenship, and registry-office marriage notices all want a birth certificate as evidence. UKVI accepts the original only if it's in English or Welsh. Otherwise: certified translation, every time.

The same translated PDF works in many places. UKVI, the Home Office, HMCTS for civil and family courts, UK registry offices for marriages and civil partnerships, and UCAS for student admissions all accept it. One translation, many destinations.

Most birth certificates fit on one page. £12.99, done. The price includes the statement of accuracy, translator credentials, and digital PDF delivery. There is nothing else to pay.

A few countries issue longer formats. Chinese notarised birth extracts are often two pages. Indian state certificates can run to two pages depending on annotations. The French livret de famille is a multi-page family booklet. Same per-page rate either way.

We assign translators by country and certificate format, not just by language. The reason is practical. A Pakistani NADRA certificate, a Bangladeshi municipal certificate, and an Indian state certificate share roughly the same script and language space. But the layouts, stamps, and registration office terms are quite different. Mistaking a Punjab district seal for a Bihar one is the kind of small error that triggers UKVI queries.

For Chinese certificates we cover simplified and traditional. For Arabic, all 22 Arab-League country formats. For African French-speaking certificates we handle the bilingual French-Arabic and French-local-language formats common in Morocco, Algeria, Senegal, and the DRC.