Meta business verification: Verifying Your Account With Documents in Another Language

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Meta requirements in detail

Check the language list first

Meta's list is longer than many people expect: Arabic, Bengali, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese (Meta Business Help Center: Official documents to upload to verify your business).

If your company extract is in Russian, your tax certificate in Thai or your bank statement in Indonesian, upload it as it is; no translation is needed.

The translation rule applies to everything else: Dutch, Swedish, Czech, Romanian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Persian, Urdu, Swahili, Amharic and many more. For those, Meta does not read the original, so the English translation is what its reviewers rely on to match the legal name and address you entered.

What "official stamps of a translating agency" means for your order

Meta's words are specific: an English translation with official stamps of a translating agency (Meta Business Help Center: Official documents to upload to verify your business).

A translation you make yourself, or one from a free online tool, has no agency behind it.

An eVerbary translation is made by a translation agency and comes with a signed and stamped certificate of translation accuracy on company letterhead, with our ATA member number, address and phone.

Order it like any certified translation and, if you like, write in the notes that it is for Meta business verification.

The PDF you receive has the translation, the stamped certificate and the order number on every page, ready to upload. Every stamp and seal on your original document is also translated, so the reviewer can see who issued it.

Documents people usually translate

• Certificate of incorporation or articles of incorporation
• Business registration certificate or commercial registry extract
• Business license
• Tax registration or tax certificate issued by the tax authority
• Business bank statement
• Utility bill in the business's legal name, for address and phone

What an eVerbary translation includes

• A complete English translation of every page, stamps, seals and handwritten notes included, laid out like the original so each line can be matched.
• A signed certificate of translation accuracy on letterhead, with our contact details, delivered as a PDF you can upload or print.
• $24.95 per page with no word cap, certification included; 24 hours for one to three pages as standard. Regular clients who need it can get delivery in as little as 30 minutes, on request.
• Notarization added at checkout ($34.90 per order) when the office asks for a notarized translation.

Submitting the translation to Meta

• Upload the stamped English translation in Security Center in Meta Business Suite, where you started the verification. Meta's page does not say whether the original must go with it; keeping the original and the translation in one PDF lets the reviewer compare them.

• Choose a document that shows your business's legal name and official address or phone number, is not expired and was issued by the relevant authority (Meta Business Help Center: Official documents to upload to verify your business).

• Meta asks you to cover personal information it does not need, such as a social security number or its local equivalent (Meta Business Help Center: Official documents to upload to verify your business). We translate the page exactly as you upload it.

How to order

1. Scan or photograph every page of the document, front and back, including any stamps on the reverse.
2. Upload it, choose the language and "certified", and see the price before paying.
3. Receive the PDF, usually within 24 hours for one to three pages, and submit it with the copy of the original wherever the office asks for it.

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