K1 Birth certificate Translation

[IBE2CA 34]

Can someone answer or point me to the pages showing if my fiance will need her birth certificate and or Police records translated into English at the Bogota Embassy interview?

[GaryK 39]

3 hours ago, IBE2CA said:

Can someone answer or point me to the pages showing if my fiance will need her birth certificate and or Police records translated into English at the Bogota Embassy interview?

As a rule of thumb, translate everything.  You can line your hamster cage with the documents you don't end up using.

[payxibka 10,045]

3 hours ago, IBE2CA said:

Can someone answer or point me to the pages showing if my fiance will need her birth certificate and or Police records translated into English at the Bogota Embassy interview?

If evidence is in a language other than the "mother tongue " of the interviewing location needs a translation 

[HP+IC 292]

Check the instructions at the embassy's website. They are country-specific. The usual rule is 'do translate everything not in English and not in the official language of the host country'. That said, if the beneficiary has their BC in, say, German, they have to have it translated for Bogota.

[IBE2CA 34]

On 4/17/2019 at 4:29 AM, HP+IC said:

Check the instructions at the embassy's website. They are country-specific. The usual rule is 'do translate everything not in English and not in the official language of the host country'. That said, if the beneficiary has their BC in, say, German, they have to have it translated for Bogota.

So...If the birth certificate is from Colombia (in Spanish) and the interview is in Bogota, CO.- Spanish is OK? Or,  does it need to be translated to English for the US Embassy Councilor?

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,092]

3 hours ago, IBE2CA said:

So...If the birth certificate is from Colombia (in Spanish) and the interview is in Bogota, CO.- Spanish is OK? Or,  does it need to be translated to English for the US Embassy Councilor?

It's almost certainly okay for the K-1 interview in Bogota (in the sense that I'm not going to look it up, but almost every embassy/consulate accepts documents in the local official language and English).

 

I'd normally mention that any documents that you'll also need for AOS (which does include the beneficiary's birth certificate) will need translations then, but finding someone to translate Spanish language documents in California is probably not difficult.