Haitian Name Change Translation
Haitian name change translation for the case nearly every Haitian family runs into: the name on the acte de naissance, the passport, the school diploma and the church letter are not spelled the same, and USCIS, a DMV or a university wants to know why. We translate the jugement de rectification, the corrected extrait, and the affidavits that explain the difference, and US name-change orders into French for Haiti.
- 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 Haitian Creole change of name records
In Haiti a name is corrected, not changed
Haitians rarely choose a new name. They inherit several spellings of the old one, and the paper trail that reconciles them is what needs translating.
The jugement de rectification
When a Haitian needs the record itself fixed, an avocat applies to the Tribunal de Première Instance for a jugement de rectification d'acte de l'état civil, the commissaire du gouvernement gives an opinion, and the judgment orders the officier de l'état civil to note the correction in the margin of the register. The Archives Nationales then issue an extrait that carries the corrected name, sometimes with the mention marginale printed at the foot. We translate the judgment with its reasoning, the dispositif that states the exact old and new spelling, and the extrait, so the three agree to the letter.
Why the spellings drift
The register wrote Jn Baptiste, the school wrote Jean-Baptiste, the church wrote Janbatis in Creole, and the ONI identity card dropped the hyphen. Haitian documents list the surname first, so a US clerk reads DORVIL Marie Claude as a first name Dorvil. A child may carry the mother's surname on the acte and the father's in daily life. The translation keeps each document's spelling exactly and adds a translator's note the first time a variant appears, saying which other document carries which form, without choosing a winner.
A US order going the other way
A Haitian citizen who changed a name in a US court, or who wants a Haitian passport that matches a US marriage, takes the Florida circuit court order or the marriage certificate to the Haitian consulate, which reads French. We translate the order into French, with the court's title and the judge's name as printed, and the consulate can then legalize it for use by the Archives or the ONI in Haiti. For a family or church in Haiti that only needs to know the new name, a Creole version does the job, and we write that too.
Who is asking for your Haitian Creole change of name 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.
US passports and the Department of State
The Department of State wants the translation notarized. Add notarization at checkout and we handle the rest.
Banks, DMVs and Social Security
Offices updating your record to the new name accept a certified translation of the order, read next to the original. Some DMVs want it notarized as well, so check with your office first.
Before you upload
Three things that save a day of back and forth on a Haitian Creole change of name.
Send the court order or the registry act
A name change is proved by the judge's order, the deed poll or the registry entry that recorded it. Upload the document that made the change, not only an ID in the new name.
Show both names in the scan
The page that lists the old name and the new one is the page every recipient wants. Include the seal, the registration number and the back of the page.
Give us the English spelling of both names
Tell us how each name appears on your passport or other documents. The translation keeps the names as the order writes them and notes the spelling you use.
Details and pricing
What is included in a Haitian Creole change of name 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 change of name 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.
Haitian Creole Change Of Name FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- USCIS issued an RFE because my name differs across my Haitian documents. What do you translate?
- Everything that shows the variants and everything that explains them. That is usually the acte or extrait, the passport page, the diploma, and then an affidavit from you or a relative stating that the spellings refer to one person, which may be written in French or in Kreyòl, and a jugement de rectification if you obtained one. We translate each exactly as spelled and cross-reference the variants in notes, which is what the officer needs to connect the records.
- Do I need a jugement de rectification, or will an affidavit be enough?
- For a spelling variant, such as Jn for Jean or a dropped hyphen, a same-person affidavit with the translated records usually satisfies USCIS. When the extrait itself is wrong, a wrong date, a misspelled surname or a missing parent, only a jugement de rectification fixes it, and the Haitian passport office issues passports in the name the extrait shows. The officer decides what is enough.
- The name in my Creole school report is spelled nothing like my acte. Will you match them?
- We will keep both and show they are one person. Creole spells names by sound, so Pierre becomes Pyè and Joseph becomes Jozèf in a school report or a church letter written in Kreyòl, while the acte and the passport keep the French form. The translation gives the name as the document spells it, with the French form in a note on first use, so the registrar or officer sees the correspondence without us rewriting any document.
- 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 Haitian Creole documents we translate
Change of name translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's change of name records.
Sending it with an application? Read the USCIS translation requirements, Notarized translations before you order.