Country-specific documents
Country-Specific Document Translation
Most countries do not issue the documents Australian agencies describe. Instead of a 'birth certificate' you may hold a koseki, a hukou, a libro de familia or a certidão de inteiro teor. These pages explain each document in its own terms — what it contains, who issues it, and how we translate it — so you can be confident you are submitting the right record. $59 per page, your complete order back within 24 hours.
Why the local document name matters
A translation is only useful if the Australian officer reading it can follow the original. That means reproducing the register structure, the issuing authority and every annotation, not just the facts.
- Registry layouts differ by country — we reproduce the structure, not just the content
- Marginal annotations often carry the fact you were asked to prove
- Non-Gregorian calendars are converted with the original date retained
- Names in non-Latin scripts are reproduced as they appear on the document
- Seals, stamps, apostilles and legalisation pages are translated or described
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Every translation on these pages is produced by a NAATI-certified translator and delivered as a certified PDF with the translator's statement, so it can be uploaded directly with your application. We will also tell you when you do not need us — several countries issue documents in English or in multilingual format that may be accepted as issued.
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Frequently asked questions
Documents by country of issue
Italy
- Estratto dell'atto di nascitaItaly's birth extract and full birth act — the documents most often used for Italian citizenship, passport and family matters in Australia.
- Certificato dei carichi pendentiItaly's pending-proceedings certificate — the carichi pendenti — and how it differs from the casellario giudiziale record.
- Certificato del Casellario GiudizialeItaly's judicial-record certificate, and how it differs from the certificato dei carichi pendenti.
Spain
China
- 户口簿China's household registration booklet — the record that ties family members, addresses and identity history together.
- 公证书The bilingual notarial certificates Chinese applicants actually hold for birth, marriage, single status and police clearance.
- 学位证 / 毕业证China's separate degree and graduation certificates, plus the CHSI and CSSD online verification reports.
- 结婚证China's red marriage booklet and its notarised equivalent — the evidence used in partner and family applications.
South Korea
Philippines
- PSA Certificate of Live BirthPSA-issued civil documents — including CENOMAR and annotated records — where handwritten entries or local-language annotations need certified English.
- NBI ClearanceThe Philippine police clearance — issued in English, but often needing certified handling of annotations or supporting records.
Brazil
India
- आधार / जन्म प्रमाण पत्रIndian identity and civil records issued in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi and other regional languages.
- ਜਨਮ ਸਰਟੀਫਿਕੇਟ (Punjab, India)Birth records registered in Punjab, India — including the separate non-availability certificate — translated as issued.
- ਵਿਆਹ ਸਰਟੀਫਿਕੇਟ (Punjab, India)Marriage records registered in Punjab, India, where the Act named on the certificate matters.
- ਯੂਨੀਵਰਸਿਟੀ ਰਿਕਾਰਡ (Punjab, India)Academic records issued by universities in Punjab, India, and what a translation does and does not replace.
- பிறப்புச் சான்றிதழ் (Tamil Nadu, India)Birth records registered in Tamil Nadu, India — distinct from Sri Lankan Tamil records.
- கல்வி ஆவணங்கள் (Tamil Nadu, India)Academic records from Tamil Nadu institutions, and the difference between translating one and obtaining one.
- Police Clearance Certificate (India)India's Police Clearance Certificate through the Passport Seva context, and how it differs from state or district police certificates.
Vietnam
Indonesia
Iran
Colombia
France
- Livret de FamilleFrance's family record book and civil-status acts issued by the mairie.
- Extrait de casier judiciaire (bulletin n°3)France's criminal-record extract — the bulletin n°3 — and how to identify and prepare it for English translation.
- Acte de naissance (copie intégrale, extrait avec filiation, extrait sans filiation)The three French birth-record formats compared, so you request the one your Australian recipient actually needs.
Portugal
Sri Lanka
Croatia
- Uvjerenje da se ne vodi kazneni postupakCroatia's court certificate about ongoing criminal proceedings, and how it differs from a criminal-record certificate.
- Potvrda / uvjerenje iz kaznene evidencijeCroatia's ministry-issued criminal-record certificate, issued in Croatian for use abroad.
- Rodni list / Izvadak iz matice rođenihCroatia issues the rodni list, register extracts and a Vienna Convention extract as separate documents.
Japan
Mexico
- Acta de NacimientoMexico's civil registry act — issued online with a CURP, folio and digital verification chain.
- Constancia de Antecedentes Penales FederalesMexico's federal criminal-record constancia, distinct from the state-issued records people often search for as carta de no antecedentes penales.
Peru
Argentina
Chile
Cambodia
- សៀវភៅគ្រួសារ / សៀវភៅស្នាក់នៅCambodia's family record book and residence book — two different documents with two different official names.
- Cambodian birth certificate (civil registration certificate)Cambodia's civil birth-registration certificate, and how it differs from a hospital birth notification or a family book.
- Letter of Criminal Record (Cambodia, Ministry of Justice)Cambodia's criminal-record letter, issued in the Ministry of Justice context rather than by a police force.
Venezuela
- Acta de NacimientoVenezuela's birth record, issued as an acta or partida de nacimiento by the municipal civil registry, translated exactly as issued.
- Certificado de Antecedentes PenalesVenezuela's national penal-record certificate, translated as issued for Australian character and police-evidence requests.
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