Portuguese Death Certificate Translation
Portuguese death certificate translation to English for a widow's or widower's petition, a US probate court, a life insurer, a bank or Social Security, from the Brazilian certidão de óbito issued by a Cartório de Registro Civil. We also translate a US death certificate into Portuguese for an inventário, an INSS pension or a cartório in 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) death certificate records
A Brazilian certidão de óbito says more than a US death certificate
Lei 6.015 lists what the registrar must record, and several of those lines are exactly what a US court or insurer is looking for.
Deixou bens, deixou filhos, and the will
The certidão states whether the person left property, whether a will is known, and the name and age of each child, along with the surviving spouse and the cartório where the marriage was registered. A US probate court or an estate lawyer reads those lines as a list of heirs. The translation keeps each one in the registrar's wording, including não deixou bens when that is what it says, and never summarizes them.
Causa da morte and the médico atestante
Unlike many US certificates, the Brazilian certidão prints the cause of death taken from the Declaração de Óbito, in the doctor's words, with the attesting physician's name and CRM number. Life insurance and accident claims turn on that line. The translation gives the medical terms in English, insuficiência respiratória aguda as acute respiratory failure, and keeps the CRM number with the state it belongs to.
The Declaração de Óbito is not the certidão
The Declaração de Óbito is the Ministério da Saúde form the doctor fills in, numbered and printed in three copies, one of which goes to the cartório. The family sometimes keeps a copy and sends it to us as the death certificate. USCIS, a court and an insurer want the certidão the cartório issued from it. We translate either, and title each one in English by what it is.
Who is asking for your Portuguese (Brazil) death certificate 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.
Insurers and Social Security
Life insurance and survivor benefit claims accept a certified translation. Add the medical certificate if the claim turns on the cause of death.
Courts and consulates abroad
A probate court or a consulate handling a repatriation or an estate usually wants the original apostilled and the translation certified or notarized.
Before you upload
Three things that save a day of back and forth on a Portuguese (Brazil) death certificate.
Send the civil record, not only the medical form
The registry act is the document recipients ask for. Add the doctor's certificate as a second file if an insurer or a court wants the cause of death.
Include the reverse and the stamps
Issue stamps, the registrar's signature and folio numbers often sit on the back or at the edge. Photograph both sides flat with the whole page in frame.
Give us the names as they appear elsewhere
Tell us the English spelling of the deceased and of the spouse or parents named on the record, so the translation matches the petition, policy or probate file it joins.
Details and pricing
What is included in a Portuguese (Brazil) death certificate 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 death certificate 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) Death Certificate FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- The certidão lists cor and estado civil. Do those come through in the translation?
- Yes. The registrar records the deceased's cor, the color or race line, estado civil, profissão and naturalidade, and the translation gives each one as written, with the Portuguese term in brackets where the English is not a direct match. A line that says viúvo or divorciado matters to USCIS, since it shows whether an earlier marriage had ended. We do not drop the cor line because US certificates ask the question differently.
- My parent died in Brazil decades ago. Is the old certidão enough?
- Usually, if it is legible. Older certidões are typed on the cartório's own form, and some give only the idade rather than a date of birth, because the law asked for age. A US probate court that needs the date of birth will take it from the birth or marriage certidão, so send that too. We mark any word the paper has lost as illegible.
- The death was in the US. What does the family in Brazil need?
- Yes. A family opening an inventário, claiming a pensão por morte from the INSS or closing an account in Brazil needs the US certificate in Portuguese, with an apostille from the issuing state. The court and the INSS will normally want a tradução juramentada from a Brazilian sworn translator, and we are not one. Our certified translation is for the family, a cemetery or the Brazilian lawyer preparing the file.
- 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
Death certificate translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's death certificate records.
Sending it with an application? Read the USCIS translation requirements, Inheritance claim translations before you order.