What documents need translation?

[jakelake 222]

Other than the marriage certificate, what other required documents would need to be translated before sending to NVC?

Does the beneficiary's birth certificate need to be translated to English?

What about the police certificate?

 

 

[Thesmiths2016 117]

4 hours ago, jakelake said:

Other than the marriage certificate, what other required documents would need to be translated before sending to NVC?

Does the beneficiary's birth certificate need to be translated to English?

What about the police certificate?

 

 

Have a look on the travel.state.gov website. Or even easier just type "submit supporting documents" into google and partway down the results you'll see the relevant travel.state.gov page. 

Go there and use the drop down box to select your country and it should give you requirements for all documents. 

 

If you are still unsure after that, ask your embassy, as NVC are just document checkers for their requirements. However I would assume all documents in a foreign language should be translated ... otherwise how would they be able to check what they are?

[jakelake 222]

The reason that I posted my question is that I already googled and sent an email to the embassy and got no results.

I was hoping that someone with a more definitive response would answer.

[rac717 7]

 We live abroad in Argentina (well, I moved back to US recently to establish domicile) and I just confirmed with NVC that only documents not in English OR native language of country in which you are applying need to be translated.  So in our case, nothing needed to be translated.

[jakelake 222]

1 hour ago, rac717 said:

 We live abroad in Argentina (well, I moved back to US recently to establish domicile) and I just confirmed with NVC that only documents not in English OR native language of country in which you are applying need to be translated.  So in our case, nothing needed to be translated.

I just called to confirm. The documents are in French and since they would be transferred to Haiti where the interview would be held, then there would be no need to translate them.

NVC basically has templates of what these documents look like and don't necessarily need to understand what is on them since the US Embassy in Haiti would read them.

I think that I will call again in a few weeks just to see if I get the same response.

[Pavel1982 104]

Any document that is not in English needs to translate and certified by notary .You have to submit both copies(one in your native language and one in English) to NVC

[jakelake 222]

17 hours ago, mrahman14 said:

Any document that is not in English needs to translate and certified by notary .You have to submit both copies(one in your native language and one in English) to NVC

I just called NVC again and I was informed that I don't need to send in translated copies of birth certificate.

Maybe your case is different if your interview will not be in Bangladesh?

[Pavel1982 104]

Please follow the instruction from NVC. That is the best course of action. Thank you

[Pavel1982 104]

I am not sure if it because interview in Bangladesh but I do remember from few years back when I had applied for my mom , I had to translate everything to English and notarized. Similar thing happened when my friend applied for his spouse last year, he had to translate everything in English and submit to NVC . But as you say, it might varies country to country.

Edited April 27, 2017 by mrahman14

[jakelake 222]

On ‎4‎/‎27‎/‎2017 at 10:39 AM, mrahman14 said:

Please follow the instruction from NVC. That is the best course of action. Thank you

I think that anybody with some sort of common sense would follow the instructions of NVC.

You essentially did not even provide any helpful information.

[Troy P 34]

We had everything in creole or french translated. Police & Birth...You have to send a copy again for AOS and it also says translated documents.

[Ryan H 3,812]

2 hours ago, Troy P said:

We had everything in creole or french translated. Police & Birth...You have to send a copy again for AOS and it also says translated documents.

 

AOS is not applicable in this case.