Certified translation template: what USCIS accepts

The certification statement USCIS accepts

USCIS has no official form for this. The certification is a short signed statement, and USCIS's own sample language runs about like this: “I, [name], certify that I am fluent in English and Portuguese, that I am competent to translate between them, and that the attached English translation is a complete and accurate translation of the document titled [name].” Under it goes the signer's full name, signature, date, and contact. Any wording that carries those claims satisfies 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3). Full rule in plain English: USCIS translation requirements.

What the template cannot do

Now what the template cannot do. It certifies a translation. It cannot make one. Complete means every stamp, seal, and margin note rendered in English, back of the page included, names and dates matching the rest of your file. Most people hunting for a “template” are really trying to fill one in over a birth certificate they translated themselves, and a Brazilian certidão is exactly where the traps hide: livro and folha numbers, registry stamps, averbações added years later. A borrowed template sits happily on top of a translation that is missing all of it.

The signature is the real risk, not the wording

And the signature is the real risk, not the wording. Fill in a template over your own case and you have signed a statement that your own evidence is accurate. The rule allows it. Officers still read a self-signed packet differently, because the person vouching for it is the person who wins if it is believed. That is the file that draws a Request for Evidence, or worse. How that plays out is in USCIS RFE for translation.

So the template is free and worth exactly that. A certified page here is $19, back in 24 hours, with a Certificate of Accuracy written and signed by Ivy Pires, backed by the USCIS acceptance guarantee. Want to see a finished one first? The certified translation sample shows the whole thing, annotated.

The person doing your translation is Ivy, a native Portuguese speaker from Brazil. She signs the Certificate of Accuracy on every order, which is the certification 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) requires.