Arabic Adoption Documents Translation
Arabic adoption documents translation for an I-600 orphan petition, a state re-adoption, a visa interview or a guardianship file. Most Arab countries have no adoption in the US sense; a court grants كفالة, guardianship, and the papers that follow differ by country. We translate kafala judgments, abandonment rulings, orphanage records and new birth records into certified English, and US home studies into Arabic.
- Up to 250 words per page
- $25 per page
- Standard turnaround
- From 24 hours
- Certificate of accuracy
- Signed & stamped
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Written for Arabic adoption documents records
Kafala is not adoption, and the translation has to say so
Islamic law does not sever a child's lineage, so the court order an American family brings home from Rabat or Cairo is a guardianship, and USCIS and the state court read it as one.
Morocco: the kafala judgment and the abandonment ruling
Morocco is the usual source. The file starts with a حكم بالإهمال, the ruling that declares the child abandoned, then the orphanage's record, then the kafala order from the قاضي شؤون القاصرين naming the kafil parents. Morocco is not a Hague country, so the case goes through the I-600 orphan process, the consulate in Casablanca issues the visa, and the family petitions a US court afterward to adopt. The judgments are in Arabic and the birth extract is bilingual with French; we translate both so no office receives half a file.
Lebanon, Tunisia and Iraq
Lebanon allows full adoption for Christians through the church courts, the المحاكم الروحية, which issue a decree the civil registry then records on the child's entry. Tunisia has permitted adoption since 1958 by judgment of the cantonal judge, and the child takes the adopter's surname. Iraq's juvenile court orders ضم, the joining of a foundling to a married couple after a trial period. Each produces a different document and a different word, and we keep the Arabic term with a plain English gloss rather than writing "adoption" over all three.
Egypt and the Gulf: fostering through a ministry
Egypt forbids adoption, and a family that takes in a child does so under the Ministry of Social Solidarity's alternative family program, with a قرار احتضان and a file from the children's home. Saudi Arabia and the UAE run fostering schemes of the same kind. These papers come to us for a US guardianship petition, a dependent visa or a school enrollment rather than an I-600, and the translation calls the arrangement what the Arabic calls it, because the relationship it creates is the very thing a US judge or officer is deciding.
Who is asking for your Arabic adoption documents translation?
The translation is the same. What changes is whether the recipient wants anything added to it.
USCIS
USCIS asks for a complete English translation and a signed certification from the translator. No notarization is needed.
Family courts and state registrars
A state court recognizing a foreign adoption, or a vital records office issuing a US birth certificate, accepts a certified translation of the decree, notarized where the clerk asks for it.
Central authorities and courts abroad
Adopting from another country, your home study and background checks usually need an apostille and a translation into that country's language.
Before you upload
Three things that save a day of back and forth on a Arabic adoption documents.
Send the full adoption file in one order
The court decree, the consent of the birth parents, the home study and the child's new birth certificate are read together. One order keeps the names and dates consistent across all of them.
Include the stamps and the finality note
A foreign adoption decree is complete only with the court seal and the note that it is final. Scan the back of each page and any attached certificates.
Give us the child's name as it will be registered
Tell us the spelling the child's passport or visa application uses. The translation keeps the name as the record writes it and notes the English spelling.
Details and pricing
What is included in a Arabic adoption documents translation
One price per page covers the translation and its certification. A page is up to 250 words, and the quote tells you the page count before you pay.
Everything on the adoption documents is translated, including stamps, seals and handwritten notes. Tell us the English spelling you use for each name when you order.
Certified Translation
Word-for-word translation with a certificate of accuracy for official use.
$25
USD / page
up to 250 words per page
Included
- Signed & stamped certification of translation accuracy
- Certified by a professional translator
- Digital delivery via PDF
- Review and approve final translation
- 100% Guaranteed Acceptance
- Standard turnaround starting at 24 hours
Optional services
- Expedited turnaround
- Priority handling when your deadline is shorter than the standard turnaround.
- By deadline
- Notarization
- A notary public signs and stamps the certification statement.
- $20 per order
- Physical copy
- A wet-ink original of your translation, mailed by express courier.
- $35 per order
- Apostille
- Authenticates the notary’s signature and seal for use in Hague Convention countries.
- $180 per document
What the certificate of accuracy states
Your translation arrives with a Certification of Translation Accuracy issued by ImmiTranslate. It is the page the receiving organization checks first.
- The translation is complete and accurate.
- The document title and the language pair.
- The translator is competent in both languages.
- A signature and the ImmiTranslate certification stamp.
- Our American Translators Association corporate membership.
Our translation process
Our goal is to make the translation process as simple as possible for you. Our service is streamlined specifically for documents of this nature.
Arabic Adoption Documents FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- Does USCIS treat a kafala order as an adoption?
- Your agency or an immigration attorney answers that for your case. What we see is that files from Morocco go through the I-600 orphan route, where the abandonment ruling and the kafala order prove the child's status, and the adoption itself happens later in a US state court. Our translation renders كفالة as kafala, with guardianship in brackets, and never as adoption, because an officer who reads "adoption decree" on a guardianship order has been misled by the translator.
- We need our home study and USCIS approval in Arabic for the Moroccan court. Can you do that?
- Yes, we translate into Arabic, and into French if the orphanage or the court prefers it; ask your Moroccan lawyer which. US documents going to Morocco are apostilled first, since Morocco joined the Apostille Convention in 2016, and the court may require the final translation from a traducteur assermenté in Morocco. We are not sworn translators there. Our version is what you, your agency and the lawyer work from, and it saves the sworn translator starting from scratch.
- I grew up under kafala in Egypt or Morocco and must prove the relationship for a US visa. What do I translate?
- The fostering or kafala decision, your birth record, and the family record of the people who raised you. A Moroccan foundling's birth record carries a fictitious father's name assigned by the registry, and an Egyptian family record will not list a fostered child at all. We translate each as written and add a note explaining why the names do not match, so the consular officer sees a documented history rather than a gap.
- How much does a certified translation cost?
- Certified translation is $25 per page, with a page counted as up to 250 words. Notarization, a mailed physical copy and an apostille are optional and priced separately.
- How long does a certified translation take?
- Standard turnaround starts at 24 hours and depends on the length and language of your documents. If you have a deadline, include it in your quote request.
Other Arabic documents we translate
Adoption documents translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's adoption documents records.
Sending it with an application? Read the USCIS translation requirements, Apostille service before you order.