Portuguese Asylum Documents Translation
Portuguese asylum documents translation for a USCIS asylum office or an immigration court, from the papers a Brazilian case is built on: a boletim de ocorrência, a medida protetiva under the Lei Maria da Penha, a laudo from the IML, a pastor's or neighbor's declaração, and threatening messages. We also translate records from Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau.
- 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) asylum documents records
Police reports, protective orders and forensic laudos from Brazil
Most Portuguese-language asylum files we see come from Brazil, where the claim often rests on threats from a facção, a violent partner or an agent of the state. Each record has a fixed form, and a US adjudicator reads it for what it does and does not say.
Boletim de ocorrência
The police report is the boletim de ocorrência registered at a delegacia of the state Polícia Civil, or a registro de ocorrência in Rio de Janeiro. Many are now filed online through a Delegacia Eletrônica and arrive as a PDF with no stamp. The heading lists the natureza da ocorrência, the legal classification such as ameaça under article 147 of the Código Penal, and the histórico is the victim's own account typed by the clerk. We translate the classification with its article number and the histórico in its own register, since an officer at the asylum office compares it to the I-589 declaration line by line.
Medida protetiva de urgência
A woman fleeing a partner usually holds a decisão granting medidas protetivas de urgência under Law 11.340/2006, the Lei Maria da Penha. The order names the aggressor, sets a distance in meters and forbids contact, and is served by an oficial de justiça whose certidão is stapled to it. The translation keeps the article numbers, the judge's name and the vara, and renders the service certificate in full, because it proves the aggressor knew of the order.
IML laudos and private declarações
Injuries are documented by an exame de corpo de delito at the Instituto Médico Legal, a state forensic institute, whose laudo answers numbered quesitos such as whether the injury caused incapacity for more than thirty days. Letters from a pastor, a community leader or a relative arrive as a declaração with the signature recognized at a cartório. We translate the quesitos as questions and answers and the notarial clause as its own paragraph, so the court sees who certified what.
Who is asking for your Portuguese (Brazil) asylum documents translation?
The translation is the same. What changes is whether the recipient wants anything added to it.
USCIS asylum offices
USCIS asks for a complete English translation of every foreign-language document and a signed certification from the translator. No notarization is needed.
Immigration courts
An immigration judge expects each exhibit translated in full and certified, filed with the original. Courts refuse summaries, so every page you file is translated whole.
IRCC
Refugee claims in Canada accept a certified translation with the translator's affidavit. Order the certified translation and add notarization if your application guide asks for it.
Before you upload
Three things that save a day of back and forth on a Portuguese (Brazil) asylum documents.
Send every page, including the envelopes
Police reports, threat letters, medical reports and newspaper clippings each count. Postmarks and envelopes show when and where a letter was sent, so scan them too.
Keep handwritten pages readable
Letters and notes are often handwritten. Photograph each page flat in good light, and tell us any names or places that are hard to make out.
Give us the names as your application spells them
Your I-589 fixes the English spelling of your name and of each family member. Tell us that spelling so every document in the file matches.
Details and pricing
What is included in a Portuguese (Brazil) asylum 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 asylum 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) Asylum Documents FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- I filed the boletim weeks after the attack. Does the date matter?
- The adjudicator will notice it. A boletim de ocorrência prints two dates: the data do fato, when the events happened, and the date and time the report was registered. We translate both with their labels, so the officer can see the delay was in reporting, not in the events, and can set it against the reason for the delay given in your I-589 declaration.
- Do you translate records from Angola or Mozambique for an asylum claim?
- Yes. Police and court papers from Luanda, Maputo or Bissau are written in Portuguese, but the vocabulary and the office names follow the old Portuguese model: an auto de notícia, a Comando Provincial, a Tribunal Provincial. We assign them to a translator who works with that country's documents. Older records may be typed on carbon paper or handwritten, and we mark an illegible passage as illegible rather than guess at it.
- I have a certidão de óbito for a relative who was killed. Does the cause of death matter?
- Yes. A Brazilian death certificate states the causa da morte as the doctor or the IML wrote it, for example ferimento por projétil de arma de fogo, and sometimes notes that the body was released by the IML, which itself points to a violent death. We translate the cause word for word and keep any observação, because the adjudicator uses the certificate to corroborate the account in your declaration.
- 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
Asylum documents translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's asylum documents records.
Sending it with an application? Read the USCIS translation requirements, Certified translations before you order.