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Certified Bolivian Name Change Document Translation
Certified translation of the documents that record a change of name in Bolivia, including the marginal annotations and registry endorsements that carry the legal effect and that a reader unfamiliar with the system will otherwise skip.
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SERECÍ, under the electoral body
Bolivian civil registration is run by SERECÍ, the Servicio de Registro Cívico, which sits under the Órgano Electoral Plurinacional — an electoral authority, which surprises readers expecting a ministry.
A change of name may be made administratively before SERECÍ in defined cases, and judicially otherwise. The instrument names which, and we translate it precisely rather than describing both as "a name change".
The certificate, and the older books
The change is recorded against the birth entry and a certificate issued afterwards carries the annotation. Bolivia digitised its registry books, so a modern certificate frequently restates an entry originally handwritten in a parish or municipal book decades earlier.
Where the document shows both layers we translate both, because the original entry's book and folio are how the record is traced.
The cédula de identidad
The cédula de identidad is issued by SEGIP and carries a number frequently followed by a departmental suffix — LP, CB, SC and so on — which is part of the identifier and not an abbreviation to be dropped.
We reproduce the suffix. A number transcribed without it does not identify the document.
Indigenous names, and the languages
Bolivia recognises Quechua, Aymara, Guaraní and dozens of other languages officially, and indigenous names appear on registry documents with spellings that registry clerks have historically hispanicised. A name change is sometimes the correction of exactly that.
We reproduce each spelling as it appears and translate what the annotation says was changed. See our Spanish page.
Ordering, and what the certification covers
Upload the document, choose certified translation at $24.95 per page of up to 250 words, and it comes back typically within 24 hours as a PDF formatted to mirror the original, with a signed certificate of translation accuracy on letterhead. Marginal annotations are translated in place, in the margin, so the reader can see that the change was recorded against the original entry rather than written into a fresh document. See how we translate and certified versus standard.
Frequently asked questions
Why is an electoral body issuing my birth certificate?
SERECÍ runs the civil registry and sits under the Órgano Electoral Plurinacional. It is the correct issuing body.
My certificate restates an older handwritten entry.
Normal after digitisation. We translate both layers, because the original book and folio are how the record is traced.
What is the LP after my cédula number?
A departmental suffix and part of the identifier. We reproduce it; a number without it does not identify the document.
Can a name change correct a hispanicised indigenous name?
That is one of the situations it is used for, and we translate what the annotation says was changed.
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Upload the order, the resolution or the annotated certificate and receive the certified translation, typically within 24 hours.