Shanghai petioners: Where did you get your documents translated?

[pinoy0320]

Hello,

 

I live in Shanghai and I need to get my wife's local documents translated for the application. Does anyone know a reliable source to get them done here?

 

Best regards,

Julian

[Randy W]

Chinese Notarial Documents - see DOS China Reciprocity Schedule

NOTE: If the link is broken, try http://travel.state..../fees_3272.html or go to http://travel.state.gov/ and search for "Reciprocity by Country" (they seem to change this periodically)

Most of the documents needed can be obtained from one of China's Notarial Offices (Gong Zheng Chu). All Chinese documentation to be used abroad is processed through the notary offices and issued in the form of notarial certificates. Notarial offices are located in all major Chinese cities and in rural county seats

The documents required are the GongZhengShu 公证书

Sample application for documents (your province or hukou may vary):

http://www.bnpo.gov....72115331419.doc

http://www.bnpo.gov....ide/detail1.asp

A discussion of the huji (or hukou 户口) system can be found at Hukou System. Chinese residents should go to their hukou for all notarial documents (birth, divorce, and/or single certificate, and police records). For the police record, one obtained at the hukou will cover all of China.

A notarial document will be in the standard white notarial booklet, have an official red seal, an English translation, and an attestation to the true translation.

Note that police records and single certificates are valid for one year from the date of notarization. Others are valid indefinitely.

Marriage certification for I-130 or K-3 must be in the same format.

If ANY document is unobtainable, you should submit a statement of WHY it is unobtainable, and what effort you made to obtain it.

Sample letter of attestation (for a non-professional translation of a non-required document (such as a relationship letter):

 

Telephone:

E-mail:

Qualifications of the translator:


I, hereby, attest that to the best of my knowledge and ability, the translation of the consent and/or other relevant document(s) from [specify language] to English for the attached document is complete and accurate.

__________________________________
Signature of Translator


_____________________________
Date of Translation

[dnoblett]

Typically you get a translation when you get them at the Notary office.

 

Police cert, Birth Cert, Marriage Cert, (Divorce Cert(s), death cert(s) showing any prior marriage(s) being terminated prior to current marriage) all typically are translated at the notary office and bound together as a white book.

 

Note many of these docs (Birth Cert and Police record) are needed later in the process (NVC or at the interview). Marriage, divorce certs and death certs are needed when filing the I-130