Certified translation for Social Security offices
Certified translation for Social Security visits is $19 a page, delivered within 24 hours with the signed certification. The two documents Brazilians bring to the SSA most: the birth certificate for a card, and the marriage certificate for a name change.
Getting or replacing a Social Security card
The SSA verifies age, identity, and status. When your evidence is Brazilian, the certidão de nascimento is the age-and-identity workhorse, and it needs to be readable to the claims representative: a complete certified English translation alongside the original.
Name change after marriage
Took a new surname in Brazil? The certidão de casamento records both names, and the translation shows both fields exactly as written, so the SSA can connect the name on your card to the name on your documents. Divorced and reverting? The averbação carries that change.
Bring the pair
SSA offices work from original documents plus what makes them legible. Bring the Brazilian original and the certified translation together; the certification page identifies the translator, which is what makes the translation usable evidence.
Your translation is handled and signed personally by Ivy, a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, and it comes with the signed Certificate of Accuracy USCIS requires under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3).
Common questions
Does the SSA accept photocopies of the translation?
Bring the translation as delivered, with its signed certification. For the underlying documents, SSA policy prefers originals or certified copies from the issuing office, so carry your Brazilian original.
Is one page enough for a certidão?
Usually 1 to 2 pages of 250 words each, so $19 to $38 per document, with the exact total shown before you pay.
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