Vietnamese Birth Certificate Translation
Vietnamese birth certificate translation to English for a child's green card, an N-600, a passport or a school, and from English into Vietnamese for a consulate recording a US birth. We translate the giấy khai sinh from any Ủy ban nhân dân, re-registered and late-registered certificates, and the typed khai sanh extracts that families from the former South still keep.
- 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 Vietnamese birth certificate records
What a giấy khai sinh says that a US birth certificate does not
The form has changed little since the 1990s. It still asks for things no US birth record holds, and those lines are where translations go wrong.
Quê quán is not the place of birth
Every giấy khai sinh carries both nơi sinh, the place of birth, and quê quán, the family's place of origin, usually the father's home village, which the child may never have seen. US forms ask only for place of birth. We translate quê quán as place of origin and keep it on its own line, so nobody enters a village in Nghệ An as the birthplace of a child born in a Hồ Chí Minh City hospital. The same care goes to dân tộc, the ethnic group, which is Kinh for most people and is never a nationality.
Số, Quyển số and the twelve-digit personal number
The certificate prints the entry number (Số) and the register book number (Quyển số) of the office that recorded the birth. Certificates registered since 2016 also carry the số định danh cá nhân, the twelve-digit personal identification number that later becomes the number on the căn cước card. We copy all three exactly, because an officer matches them against the ID card and the residence records in the same file.
Đăng ký lại and late registration
Many Vietnamese adults hold a certificate issued decades after they were born. A giấy khai sinh marked đăng ký lại was re-registered after the original record was lost, often in the 1980s or 1990s, and one marked đăng ký quá hạn was registered late. The registration date then sits years after the birth date, and the người đi khai sinh line names whoever did the registering, sometimes the person themselves as an adult. We translate those labels as printed, so the reader sees why the dates differ instead of suspecting an altered document.
Who is asking for your Vietnamese birth 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.
US passports and the Department of State
The Department of State wants the translation notarized. Add notarization at checkout and we handle the rest.
Consulates abroad
Consulates receive the translation of a US document, often with an apostille on the original. Tell us the consulate in your order notes.
Before you upload
Three things that save a day of back and forth on a Vietnamese birth certificate.
Scan the whole page
Include the back, the margins and any marginal notes. A later correction or a recognition of paternity is often written in the margin, and the recipient needs to see it translated.
Give us the English spelling of each name
If your passport or green card spells a name without an accent, tell us at checkout. The translation keeps the names as the certificate writes them and notes the spelling you use.
Order the format the recipient asked for
If they want the long form, send the long form. We translate what you upload and cannot add parents' details that a short-form extract leaves out.
Details and pricing
What is included in a Vietnamese birth 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 birth 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.
Vietnamese Birth Certificate FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- My record is from before 1975 and spells it khai sanh. Can you translate it?
- Yes. Khai sanh is the southern spelling, and records from the Republic of Vietnam are usually a typed trích lục bộ khai sanh or chứng thư khai sanh from the village administrative committee or a court registry, sometimes on a form with French headings. Many are carbon copies with a faint seal. We translate what is legible, mark what is not, and keep the old office names as they were, since the office no longer exists under that name.
- Do I need the bản chính, or is a bản sao enough for USCIS?
- A bản sao issued by the Ủy ban nhân dân from the sổ gốc, the original register, is accepted in place of the bản chính. Expect it to carry a recent issue date and the signature of the current chairman rather than the one who signed the original. Both versions are one page, so each is $25. If you hold both, send the bản chính, since it shows the original registration and signature.
- Can you translate a US birth certificate into Vietnamese for the consulate?
- Yes. Parents record a US-born child's birth with a Vietnamese consulate or back home at the Ủy ban nhân dân, so the child can get a Vietnamese passport or the five-year visa exemption. Since September 2026 the US certificate takes an apostille from the state that issued it instead of consular legalization, and the Vietnamese translation travels with it. We translate into Vietnamese and can notarize the translation. Some offices in Vietnam still want a translation certified locally, so ask the one handling 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 Vietnamese documents we translate
Birth certificate translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's birth certificate records.
Sending it with an application? Read the USCIS translation requirements before you order.