Haitian Contract Translation
Haitian contract translation of an acte de vente notarié, a bail, a promesse de vente or an employment kontra into certified English for a US court, a bank, a probate or a divorce, and of US agreements into French or Haitian Creole for a Haitian notaire, a court in Port-au-Prince or a Haitian worker in Florida who needs to know what they are signing.
- 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 legal contract records
French on the notarial act, Kreyòl on the shop floor
Haiti has two official languages, and contracts split along a line: anything a notaire or a court will see is French, and anything meant to be read by ordinary parties increasingly is Kreyòl.
The acte de vente and the land file behind it
A Haitian property sale is an acte de vente drawn by a notaire, registered at the Direction Générale des Impôts with an enregistrement stamp, and supported by a procès-verbal d'arpentage from a licensed arpenteur that describes the parcel by its neighbours and its boundary marks. The parties are identified by their CIN or NIF numbers and by where they are domiciled, and the parcel sits on an habitation in a section communale. Habitation is a rural locality, not a house, and a translation that turns habitation Duclos into the Duclos dwelling has misplaced the land. We keep these as place names and explain the terms once.
English into Kreyòl for Haitian workers and tenants
Employers and landlords in Florida, Massachusetts and New York send us leases, employment agreements, arbitration clauses, non-competes and settlement agreements to put into Haitian Creole so a worker or tenant signs knowing the terms. The translation is written in the official orthography, not in French-flavoured spelling, and where Creole has no settled word for a legal term it keeps the English term with a Creole explanation on first use rather than inventing one. Kontra, lokatè, pwopriyetè and temwen are plain Creole; arbitration and indemnification are not, and the reader is told what they do.
Which language the Haitian side wants
A US contract or power of attorney going to Haiti needs French if a notaire will act on it or a court will enforce it. It needs Creole if the point is that a family member, a cooperative or a church committee in Haiti reads and agrees to it. Creole has been an official language since Article 5 of the 1987 Constitution, and a kontra written in Kreyòl by a microfinance lender or a cooperative is a real contract, and when one reaches us for a US dispute we translate it as Creole, not as careless French.
Who is asking for your Haitian Creole legal contract translation?
The translation is the same. What changes is whether the recipient wants anything added to it.
Courts
A contract offered as evidence in a US court is filed with a complete English translation and a signed certification from the translator. Add notarization if the local rules ask for it.
USCIS
Employment contracts and leases filed with a visa petition need a complete English translation and a signed certification from the translator. No notarization is needed.
Banks and lenders
An underwriter reviewing a foreign lease, a purchase agreement or a loan contract accepts a certified translation they can read next to the original.
Before you upload
Three things that save a day of back and forth on a Haitian Creole legal contract.
Send the signed version with every annex
Schedules, annexes and the signature page are part of the contract. Upload the executed copy so the translation shows the signatures, initials and dates.
Tell us the terms you already use
If your company translates a term a certain way, or a party name has an official English form, put it in the order notes. The translation follows your list.
Say where the translation is going
A contract going to a court, a lender or USCIS needs a complete translation with a signed certification. Say in the order notes who will read it.
Details and pricing
What is included in a Haitian Creole legal contract 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 legal contract 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 Legal Contract FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- I signed a promesse de vente in Haiti. Is that the same as owning the land?
- Not yet. A promesse de vente commits the seller to sell, usually against a deposit, and the sale itself is the acte de vente signed before the notaire and registered. The translation keeps each document's own title, so a US court or lender reading the English does not treat a promise to sell as a completed transfer of the land.
- Do you translate a Haitian contract into English for a divorce or an estate in the US?
- Often. A property division in a Florida or New York divorce, or a probate of a Haitian parent's estate, turns on who owned land in Haiti, and the proof is the acte de vente, a contrat de mariage drawn before a notaire, or a donation. The translation states the matrimonial regime the parties chose in the terms the acte uses, with the English equivalent beside it, and leaves the legal effect to the attorneys.
- Can the Creole version of our contract be the one the worker signs?
- That is a question for your attorney, and most employers sign the English version and attach the Creole one with a clause saying the English controls. What we provide is a certified translation of the final English text, dated and signed, so that if the worker later says they did not understand a clause, the employer can show what was handed over and what it said in the worker's language.
- 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
Legal contract translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's legal contract records.
Sending it with an application? Read the Certified translations, Notarized translations, Inheritance claim translations before you order.