Vietnamese Name Change Translation
Vietnamese name change translation for two situations. One is a name changed in Vietnam, recorded by a trích lục thay đổi hộ tịch and a note on the giấy khai sinh, which USCIS or a DMV needs in English. The other is a name taken in the US, on a naturalization certificate or a court order, which a Vietnamese office wants in Vietnamese before you can sell property, inherit or renew a passport.
- 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 change of name records
How a name is changed in Vietnam, and what the paper shows
Vietnam does not reissue a birth certificate with the new name. It records the change beside the old one, and the translation has to carry both.
Thay đổi hộ tịch and the note on the birth record
The Civil Code allows a change of surname or given name only on listed grounds: a name causing confusion or distress, taking an adoptive or step parent's surname, restoring a name when an adoption ends. It is registered as thay đổi hộ tịch at the UBND xã, which since July 2025 handles every age; before that the district office handled anyone fourteen or over, so older extracts carry a different seal. You receive a trích lục thay đổi hộ tịch, and the registrar writes the change into the Ghi chú box of the original giấy khai sinh. We translate that note word for word with its date and signer.
Cải chính is not the same as thay đổi
A cải chính hộ tịch corrects a registration error, a misspelled name or a wrong date, and produces a trích lục cải chính hộ tịch; a thay đổi is a chosen new name; a bổ sung adds a field that was left blank. We keep each Vietnamese title and give the exact English term, since an officer reads correction and change differently. Dropping diacritics on the US side, Nguyễn Thị Hồng to Hong Thi Nguyen, is not a name change and needs no Vietnamese document; a translator's note on name order and marks is enough.
A US name on Vietnamese records
A naturalization certificate reading Andy Nguyen does not match a sổ đỏ reading Nguyễn Văn An, and a notary in Vietnam will not close a sale on the mismatch. The route is to have the foreign name change recorded in the Vietnamese register, ghi vào sổ hộ tịch, at the UBND where the birth was registered or through the Vietnamese embassy or a consulate general. The US certificate or court order needs an apostille and a Vietnamese translation. We translate the whole document, including the name change clause on the naturalization certificate; the receiving office may also want its own certified translation.
Who is asking for your Vietnamese change of name 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.
Banks, DMVs and Social Security
Offices updating your record to the new name accept a certified translation of the order, read next to the original. Some DMVs want it notarized as well, so check with your office first.
Before you upload
Three things that save a day of back and forth on a Vietnamese change of name.
Send the court order or the registry act
A name change is proved by the judge's order, the deed poll or the registry entry that recorded it. Upload the document that made the change, not only an ID in the new name.
Show both names in the scan
The page that lists the old name and the new one is the page every recipient wants. Include the seal, the registration number and the back of the page.
Give us the English spelling of both names
Tell us how each name appears on your passport or other documents. The translation keeps the names as the order writes them and notes the spelling you use.
Details and pricing
What is included in a Vietnamese change of name 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 change of name 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 Change Of Name FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- My Vietnamese wife kept her surname. Does she need a Vietnamese name change document for the US?
- No. Vietnamese women do not take the husband's surname on marriage, so there is no Vietnamese paper to translate. If she wants his surname in the US, the marriage certificate or a US court order does the job with the Social Security office and the DMV. What does get translated is her giấy khai sinh and, if she has one, her trích lục kết hôn, so that the name on those matches the passport she entered on, with a note on Vietnamese name order.
- The middle name on my old giấy khai sinh differs from my passport. Which one do you use?
- Each document is translated exactly as it reads. Records from before 1975 and from the 1980s often hyphenate the name, drop Thị or Văn, or spell it without marks, and a later passport may follow the sổ hộ khẩu instead. We translate both and add a note describing the difference. If it is a registration error rather than a spelling habit, the fix is a cải chính at the UBND in Vietnam, which produces an extract we then translate; a translation cannot change what a record says.
- Can you translate my US court name change order into Vietnamese for the consulate?
- Yes. Send the signed order from the superior, circuit or county court, with its clerk's seal, and the apostille if you already have it. We translate the order and the apostille into Vietnamese with the names set out exactly as in the English, including the Vietnamese name with its diacritics where the order spells it without them. The consulate or the UBND will tell you whether it will take our translation or wants one certified in Vietnam; both are common.
- 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
Change of name translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's change of name records.
Sending it with an application? Read the USCIS translation requirements, Apostille service before you order.