Turkish to English
Certified Death Certificate Translation, Turkish to English
A certified Turkish to English translation of a death certificate costs $24.95 per page, where one page is up to 250 words of the source document. A typical death certificate runs 1 to 2 pages, so most orders come to $24.95 to $49.90. Certified orders are delivered in 2 to 3 business days as a PDF containing the complete translation and a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy from the qualified professional translator who completed or reviewed the work, prepared for official use including USCIS filings.
Pricing
Exact prices, shown before you pay
Most death certificates are one page of up to 250 source words; certificates with a detailed medical cause of death section or attached registry transcriptions can reach two. Certified translation is $24.95 per page, so a typical order of 1 to 2 pages comes to $24.95 to $49.90. The exact total is measured from your real document and shown before payment.
Standard
$19.95 per page
3 to 5 business days
A professional translation with digital delivery.
Certified
$24.95 per page
2 to 3 business days
A certified translation accepted for official use.
Premium
$39.95 per page
1 to 2 business days
A certified translation, translated first.
One page is up to 250 words.
Requirements
What reviewers require for a certified death certificate translation
- A foreign language death certificate submitted to USCIS must be accompanied by a full English language translation certified by the translator as complete and accurate, with the translator's certification of competence to translate from that language into English (8 CFR 103.2(b)(3)).
- For immigrant visa processing, the Department of State requires certified translations of civil documents, including death certificates, that are not in English or in the official language of the country of application, with a signed translator statement of competence.
- The translation must be complete and word for word, covering the decedent's name, the date and place of death, the registering authority and registration data, informant details, seals, stamps, signature blocks, and any medical cause of death section if the certificate contains one.
- The decedent's name must be transliterated consistently and should match the name as it appears in the related file, for example the prior marriage certificate in an immigration case or the estate documents in a probate matter.
- Older or handwritten death registers frequently contain hard to read script. Illegible portions are marked [illegible] in the translation; a qualified professional translator does not reconstruct unreadable names, dates, or causes of death.
- Seals, stamps, and signatures on the certificate are described in brackets in the translation so every element of the original is accounted for.
- USCIS requires certification of the translation, not notarization. Courts, insurers, and other recipients set their own formal requirements, which can differ.
Common reasons translations get rejected
- Only the main data fields are translated and the medical section, stamps, or registry annotations are skipped, so the translation is not the full rendering the regulation requires.
- Illegible handwriting in older death registers is guessed at instead of being marked [illegible], producing a name or date that conflicts with other documents in the file.
- The decedent's name in the translation does not match the name on the related marriage certificate or estate papers because of inconsistent transliteration, so the reviewer cannot connect the death to the person in question.
- A burial permit, funeral home document, or medical certificate of death is translated and submitted in place of the civil registry death certificate that the process actually requires.
- In immigration cases, the death certificate proving a prior marriage ended is missing or untranslated, which blocks a finding that the current marriage is valid and triggers an RFE.
Good to know
About Turkish-language death certificates
The Turkish registry document for death is the Ölüm Kayıt Örneği (death registry extract); a physician-issued Ölüm Belgesi records the medical fact of death. Deaths are entered in the family's civil registry, so a Vukuatlı Nüfus Kayıt Örneği also shows the death event. A multilingual Formül C extract exists under ICCS Convention No. 16 but does not replace a certified English translation for US use.
Turkey's civil registry is centralized under the General Directorate of Civil Registration and Citizenship Affairs (Nüfus ve Vatandaşlık İşleri Genel Müdürlüğü, NVİ) within the Ministry of Interior (İçişleri Bakanlığı). Records live in the central MERNİS database (Merkezî Nüfus İdare Sistemi) and extracts are issued by district civil registry offices (ilçe nüfus müdürlüğü). The English agency name is confirmed on the US State Department reciprocity page for Turkey.
The standard Turkish vital-record document is the Nüfus Kayıt Örneği (civil registry extract), issued by the General Directorate of Civil Registration and Citizenship Affairs, through the e-Devlet portal (turkiye.gov.tr), and by Turkish embassies and consulates abroad. Registry-office copies bear a red Government of Türkiye seal at the bottom right and two signatures (preparer and approver), and are formatted as a chart printed landscape on A4 paper listing the holder and family members in columns. A more detailed version showing all recorded family events is the Vukuatlı Nüfus Kayıt Örneği.
How it works
From upload to certified delivery
Step 1
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Step 2
A professional translator translates it
A qualified professional translator translates your document.
Step 3
Reviewed for accuracy and certified
Your translation is reviewed for accuracy and certified with a signed certificate of accuracy.
Step 4
Receive your certified translation
You receive your certified translation, ready for official use.
Questions
Common questions
- Do I send the original death certificate with the translation?
- For USCIS you generally submit a clear photocopy of the certificate with the certified translation, and originals only if requested. For NVC, the scan of the foreign language certificate and the English translation are uploaded together in a single file, original first.
- The name on the death certificate is spelled differently from the name on our marriage certificate. Will that cause a problem?
- It can, because the reviewer must be able to connect the death to the right person. The translator keeps transliteration consistent across your documents where the source script allows, but cannot change what a record says; genuine discrepancies in the records themselves are addressed with supporting evidence or a correction from the issuing registry.
- Why does USCIS need a certified translation of my late spouse's death certificate?
- Two common reasons. If you are filing an I-360 widow or widower self-petition, the citizen spouse's death certificate is core evidence. If you or your current spouse were previously married, the death certificate proves that the earlier marriage ended, which filings such as the I-130, I-129F, and N-400 require. In both cases a foreign language certificate needs a full certified English translation under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3).
- The death certificate includes a cause of death section. Is that translated too?
- Yes. A certified translation must be complete, so any medical cause of death section on the certificate is rendered along with everything else. The translation never adds a cause of death the certificate does not state.
- My death certificate was issued in Turkey. What should I know before ordering?
- The Turkish registry document for death is the Ölüm Kayıt Örneği (death registry extract); a physician-issued Ölüm Belgesi records the medical fact of death. Deaths are entered in the family's civil registry, so a Vukuatlı Nüfus Kayıt Örneği also shows the death event. A multilingual Formül C extract exists under ICCS Convention No. 16 but does not replace a certified English translation for US use.
A translation error is ours to fix
If your certified translation is rejected because of a translation error we made, we correct it at no charge, and if the corrected translation is rejected again for that same error we refund what you paid for it. Our Refund Policy sets out the conditions and what it does not cover. Your documents are encrypted and kept confidential from start to finish.
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