Vietnamese Divorce Decree Translation
Vietnamese divorce decree translation to English for a fiancé visa, a spouse petition or a US family court, and from English into Vietnamese so a US divorce can be recorded in Vietnam before you remarry there. We translate the bản án ly hôn and the quyết định công nhận thuận tình ly hôn from any Tòa án nhân dân, with every page of the findings and the ruling.
- 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 divorce decree records
Bản án or quyết định: two ways a Vietnamese court ends a marriage
A Vietnamese divorce is a court document, never a registry certificate, and its title tells a US reader how the case was decided.
Quyết định công nhận thuận tình ly hôn
When both spouses agree, the court where one of them lives, a district court before July 2025 and a Tòa án nhân dân khu vực, a regional court, since then, issues a quyết định công nhận thuận tình ly hôn và sự thỏa thuận của các đương sự, a decision recognizing the consensual divorce and the parties' agreement. It is short, often three or four pages, and takes effect on the day it is issued, so there is no appeal period to prove and no separate finality certificate to chase.
Bản án sơ thẩm and bản án phúc thẩm
A contested divorce, ly hôn đơn phương, ends in a bản án, a judgment. The first-instance judgment is marked sơ thẩm and becomes final fifteen days after delivery unless appealed; an appeal produces a second judgment marked phúc thẩm from the provincial court. The judgment opens with Nhân danh nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam, then runs through the facts, the nhận định của Tòa án, the court's findings, and the quyết định section. USCIS wants all of it, so a ten-page judgment is a ten-page translation.
Con chung, cấp dưỡng and tài sản chung
The ruling settles three things. Con chung, the children, with one parent named as the one who trực tiếp nuôi dưỡng, directly raises them. Cấp dưỡng, the monthly support the other parent pays. Tài sản chung, the marital property, or a line saying the parties asked the court not to decide it. Án phí, the court fee, closes the document. We translate these as custody, child support and marital property with the Vietnamese kept beside each term, because a US family court reading the decree for a later custody question needs the exact words.
Who is asking for your Vietnamese divorce decree 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.
Marriage license offices and courts
A county clerk issuing a marriage license, or a family court, needs to see the prior marriage ended. A certified translation of the decree is accepted, notarized where the office asks.
Registries abroad
To remarry or register a divorce in another country, the US decree usually needs 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 Vietnamese divorce decree.
Send every page of the judgment
A decree is complete only with its reasoning, its resolutive points and the finality note or certificate. Pages missing from the middle leave the translation unable to show the divorce is final.
Add the registry act or the margin note
Where the divorce was recorded at a civil registry, the act or the note on the marriage record is often the page a clerk wants. Upload it with the judgment.
Tell us if only part was requested
If the recipient asked for the ruling alone, say so at checkout. Otherwise we translate the full document, which is what USCIS requires.
Details and pricing
What is included in a Vietnamese divorce decree 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 divorce decree 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 Divorce Decree FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- My spouse was a foreign citizen. Why is the decree from the city court and not the district?
- Before the court reform of July 2025, a divorce with a foreign spouse, or a spouse living abroad, was heard by the provincial court, such as the Tòa án nhân dân Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, rather than a district court. The case number on the first page, in the form Số 123/2019/QĐST-HNGĐ, shows the year and the type of decision. We translate the court name and the case number exactly, since a consular officer uses them to check that the right level of court decided the case.
- I divorced in the United States. Does Vietnam need a translation before I remarry there?
- Yes. A Vietnamese citizen who divorced abroad must have the divorce recorded, a step called ghi chú ly hôn, before registering a new marriage in Vietnam. The office wants a certified copy of the US decree with an apostille, and a Vietnamese translation. We translate the decree and can notarize the translation. Offices differ on whether they take a translation made abroad, so call the one recording the divorce first.
- The decree is a typed carbon copy from the 1980s. Can you work from it?
- Usually, yes. Judgments from that period were typed with carbon paper, the seal is often faint and the pages are numbered by hand. Send the clearest scan you can of every page, including the back if anything is stamped there. The translator marks any word that cannot be read rather than guessing, and a few unreadable words in the findings rarely trouble USCIS as long as the ruling is clear.
- 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
Divorce decree translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's divorce decree records.
Sending it with an application? Read the USCIS translation requirements before you order.