Portuguese Adoption Documents Translation
Portuguese adoption documents translation for an immigrant visa, a US court or a re-adoption in a US state, from the file a Brazilian Vara da Infância e Juventude produces: the sentença de adoção, the mandado to the cartório, the new certidão de nascimento and the reports of the equipe técnica. We also translate US home studies and dossiers into Portuguese for Brazil.
- 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 Portuguese (Brazil) adoption documents records
From the Vara da Infância to the consulate in Rio
Brazilian adoptions run through the courts under the Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente, and intercountry adoptions add a state commission and a federal central authority. The documents are specific, and the names of the offices matter to the US consulate.
The sentença and the new certidão
The judgment is a sentença de adoção from a Vara da Infância e Juventude. It orders a mandado to the Registro Civil cancelling the original birth entry and opening a new one in the adoptive parents' names. The new certidão de nascimento shows the adoptive parents and grandparents and makes no reference to the adoption, which is exactly what a US consular officer wants explained. We translate the sentença with its case number, the mandado and both certidões, and add a note that links the two names of the child.
Intercountry adoptions through the CEJAI and the ACAF
Brazil is a Hague Adoption Convention country. A US family is first approved by the Comissão Estadual Judiciária de Adoção Internacional of the child's state and by the federal Autoridade Central Administrativa Federal. The file holds the laudo de habilitação, the termo de guarda provisória issued for the convivência period in Brazil, and the certificate of conformity under article 23 of the Convention. Each of these goes to the US Consulate in Rio de Janeiro with the I-800 and the visa application, in English.
The estudo psicossocial and the parecer
Before the judge decides, the equipe interprofissional of the court, a psicólogo and an assistente social, writes an estudo psicossocial on the child and the family, and the Ministério Público gives its parecer. These reports run to several pages of professional language, with the child's history, the birth family's situation and the grounds for the destituição do poder familiar. Our translation keeps that history intact and in the same register, since a court doing a re-adoption, or the adoptee years later, reads it as the only account of what happened.
Who is asking for your Portuguese (Brazil) 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 Portuguese (Brazil) 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 Portuguese (Brazil) 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.
Portuguese (Brazil) Adoption Documents FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- We are adopting from Brazil. Which direction do you translate?
- Both. Your home study, police clearances, medical reports and financial statements go into Portuguese for the CEJAI and the ACAF; the Brazilian judgment, the new certidão and the reports come back into English for USCIS and the consulate. Inside Brazil the commission generally wants the Portuguese dossier as a tradução juramentada from a Brazilian tradutor público. Ask your agency which papers need that sworn version and which can go as our certified translation.
- The child's Brazilian birth certificate has no mention of the adoption. Will USCIS question it?
- The consular officer knows how Brazilian adoptions are recorded, but the file has to connect the old name and the new one. The sentença and the mandado do that: they name the child as born and as adopted, and give the date the adoption became final. We translate them together with the certidão, so the chain from the original register to the new one is in English in one place.
- Can you translate a stepparent adoption for a green card?
- Yes. A Brazilian stepparent who adopted a spouse's child holds a sentença de adoção unilateral, which replaces one parent on the birth record and keeps the other. USCIS then asks when the adoption became final and when the child began living with the adoptive parent, because the two-year legal custody and residence rules apply. Both dates sit in the sentença and the averbação, and we translate them with the exact wording of the decree.
- 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 Portuguese (Brazil) 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, Notarized translations before you order.