Is the passport number or MRZ changed?

Never. Numbers, dates and the machine-readable zone pass through exactly; only field labels and non-Latin text are translated or transliterated.

Can it translate visa stamps?

Yes, where the stamp text is legible — dates, entry points and visa classes are translated in place. Heavily overlapping stamps have the usual OCR limits.

Do I photograph the passport or scan it?

Either. Save the images as a PDF and upload; flatten the page and avoid glare on the laminate for best OCR.

Is a certified translation required?

Depends on the institution — banks often accept an accurate translation; courts and notaries may require certification. Reglyph's layout-faithful output is the standard starting draft either way.

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Passport Translation

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Passport translations come up when a document from one country has to work inside another's bureaucracy: opening a bank account abroad, notarizing a contract, registering a foreign marriage, or attaching old visa stamps to an immigration history. The bio page is a rigid grid of fields, and that's how officials read it. Reglyph reproduces the page with English field labels and transliterated values in the same positions, and can translate stamp and visa pages that document your travel history.

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What banks and notaries expect

Institutions usually want the bio page translated in its original format, with numbers and machine-readable lines untouched. Passport numbers, dates and the MRZ strip are carried over exactly — only labels and place names are translated. Some notaries additionally require a sworn or certified translation; Reglyph's output is the draft that makes that step fast.

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Who needs passports translated

The situations people most often bring passports to us for — each one keeps the original layout, seals and tables.

Opening bank accounts abroad

Notarized contracts and property deals

Registering foreign marriages or births

Documenting travel history from stamps

How long are these documents?

A bio page is one page, but immigration histories often need the stamp pages too — a well-traveled passport can add 10–30 pages of stamps and visas worth translating as one set.