Should I Translate Backs of Documents?

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A couple of the documents I need to get translated have writing on the back. Please see attached files. Should I have these back portions translated too?

Thanks!

[Bobby+Umit 161]

A couple of the documents I need to get translated have writing on the back. Please see attached files. Should I have these back portions translated too?

Thanks!

Yes.

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Yes.

Okay, thanks!

[pushbrk 13,386]

A couple of the documents I need to get translated have writing on the back. Please see attached files. Should I have these back portions translated too?

Thanks!

It depends on what is on the backs of the documents. If it's just an apostille, no. If it is material to the document itself, yes.

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It depends on what is on the backs of the documents. If it's just an apostille, no. If it is material to the document itself, yes.

Thanks for the reply. Can you please look at the images I attached and tell me if you think they need translated? I'd appreciate it!

[Mike B. 231]

Thanks for the reply. Can you please look at the images I attached and tell me if you think they need translated? I'd appreciate it!

I have no idea what it says at all, and neither will the person who reviews your packet, so I'd translate it. I think the idea behind sending copies of the front and back of documents (as well as every single page of your passport) is that the entire document has to be present in order for it to be a true copy of a legal document. If that's the case, then you should translate the entire document. If they weren't interested in what the back says, they wouldn't ask for it in the first place.

My wife's birth certificate had a bunch of stuff on the back certifying that the registrar who signed it was listed in the national identity registry, was an authorized agent of the state, etc. I translated all of it.

[pushbrk 13,386]

I have no idea what it says at all, and neither will the person who reviews your packet, so I'd translate it. I think the idea behind sending copies of the front and back of documents (as well as every single page of your passport) is that the entire document has to be present in order for it to be a true copy of a legal document. If that's the case, then you should translate the entire document. If they weren't interested in what the back says, they wouldn't ask for it in the first place.

My wife's birth certificate had a bunch of stuff on the back certifying that the registrar who signed it was listed in the national identity registry, was an authorized agent of the state, etc. I translated all of it.

The only document where both sides are specifically requested is a US Birth Certificate as some of them have critical information on the back sides. Many don't. A copy of every page of the US passport, is in lieu of a birth certificate and the every page requirement is for a different reason entirely.

I cannot read the backs of these documents but have seen others from Ukraine that only contain an apostille. There is no need to translate an apostille but this doesn't appear to be one. The ones I've seen contain the word "apostille" in the Roman alphabet. Until you know what the back actually says, by somebody reading it for you, you won't know if it needs an official translation or not.

Edited April 15, 2010 by pushbrk

[Mike B. 231]

The only document where both sides are specifically requested is a US Birth Certificate as some of them have critical information on the back sides. Many don't. A copy of every page of the US passport, is in lieu of a birth certificate and the every page requirement is for a different reason entirely.

I cannot read the backs of these documents but have seen others from Ukraine that only contain an apostille. There is no need to translate an apostille but this doesn't appear to be one. The ones I've seen contain the word "apostille" in the Roman alphabet. Until you know what the back actually says, by somebody reading it for you, you won't know if it needs an official translation or not.

Eh, I mistakenly thought that this was in the AOS forum instead of the K-1 forum. I don't remember if you even need the fiancee's birth certificate at all for the I-129F. Sorry about that.

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Okay I appreciate everyone's help!

[Varyag 0]

Okay I appreciate everyone's help!

The green one says (in Russian)

"Birth Certificate" (on the front)

The back page "MT Goznak" (Goznak printing house in Moscow)

[Varyag 0]

The other document is written in Ukrainian, it seems like a notarization of some kind in Kiev and Kiev region... I think I get the gist of it, but it still looks like gibberish to me, ask your fiancee to translate it for you...

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Thanks Varyag. I think I'll go ahead and translate the backs just in case. Better safe than sorry I suppose!