ReglyphBirth Certificate Translation
Translate a scanned birth certificate to English with every field exactly where the original put it.
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The birth certificate is the single most-requested document in immigration and citizenship paperwork — USCIS petitions, passport applications, school enrollment, dual-citizenship claims through a parent or grandparent. Reviewing officers hold the translation next to the original, so Reglyph rebuilds the certificate in English on the original layout: registrar fields, margins, seals and reference numbers all stay put.
What USCIS and passport offices require
US immigration requires a complete English translation with a translator's certification of accuracy — summaries or extract translations are rejected. Long-form (full) certificates are usually expected rather than short-form extracts. Reglyph translates the full document in its original format; certification is then a quick review-and-sign step for a qualified translator.
Drag to compare — every table, figure, and number stays in place.
Who needs birth certificates translated
The situations people most often bring birth certificates to us for — each one keeps the original layout, seals and tables.
How long are these documents?
One certificate is a page or two, but descent-based citizenship claims often need a chain of them — yours, a parent's, a grandparent's — plus marriage records linking the names. Translating the chain in one job keeps names and places rendered identically across every document.
Birth Certificate Translation — frequently asked
- Does USCIS accept machine translation?
- USCIS requires the translation to carry a translator's certification. Use Reglyph for the complete layout-faithful translation, then have a qualified translator review and sign it — the standard fast path.
- Long-form or short-form certificate?
- Agencies generally want the long form (full registry copy). Translate the version you'll submit; if you only hold a short-form extract, check whether your agency accepts it before translating.
- Can I translate a Spanish birth certificate to English?
- Yes — Spanish is the most common case. See the Spanish to English page for language-specific details like accented names and acta formats.
- The original is a photo taken with my phone — okay?
- Yes. Save the photo as a PDF and upload it; Reglyph OCRs image-only input as standard.
Choose your plan
Simple, scan-friendly pricing. Pages are pages — no multiplier for scanned files.
- $0.50 / page
- 10 scanned pages, never expire
- Up to 100 MB per file
- $0.13 / page
- 120 pages every month
- Up to 100 MB per file
- Pages reset each month
- $0.06 / page
- 700 pages every month
- Unused pages roll over (up to 2,100)
- Big files up to 300 MB
Birth certificates in other languages
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