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Certified Bosnian Marriage Certificate Translation

eVerbary translates your Bosnian marriage certificate into English for $24.95 per page with no word cap, by a professional human translator, with a signed certification. Most orders are delivered within a few hours. Accepted by USCIS and by US universities, colleges and schools, or your money back.

A civil marriage before the registrar

According to the State Department, only civil marriages are legal in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Under the Federation's Family Law, the couple declare their consent before the registrar in the presence of two adult witnesses, and only after that civil ceremony may they also marry before a religious official. The document you receive is an extract from the register of marriages (izvod iz matične knjige vjenčanih), issued by the registrar for the place where the marriage was concluded. If you hold a religious certificate too, we translate it and say what it is.

The register records each spouse's name, date and place of birth, citizenship, JMB and residence, the date and place of the marriage, each spouse's declaration about their surname, the parents' names, the witnesses and the registrar, and any proxy or interpreter who took part. The State Department notes that a marriage by proxy is not usually evident from the certificate itself. See our Bosnian page and the Croatian marriage certificate page.

Surnames and later entries

Spouses declare at the wedding which surname each will use, so the extract may show a changed or double surname. When a marriage ends by divorce, the court must send the final judgment to the registrar within 15 days, and the end of the marriage is entered in the same register. A spouse who took the other's surname may then declare, within six months, a return to the premarital one. A recent extract can therefore carry notes about events after the wedding, and each note is translated.

For a spousal petition USCIS also looks at how earlier marriages ended, so a former spouse's divorce judgment or death certificate may be needed with this one. USCIS does not require an apostille. If a court or state agency asks for one, in Bosnia and Herzegovina it is issued by the first-instance courts. For an extract in Cyrillic, see our Serbian page.

What USCIS requires

Under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), a foreign-language document must be accompanied by a complete English translation and the translator's certification that it is accurate. Every seal, stamp and marginal note is part of the document, so every one is translated.

State agencies set their own rules — see government agencies — and what our certification states is on this page.

How it works

Upload a photo or a scan of your document, pick the language pair and check out online. You never have to mail originals: a legible copy is all we need.

A professional human translator, never machine translation, translates the document word for word and mirrors the layout of the original. Every certified translation ships with a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy that meets the requirements of USCIS, courts and universities.

Your translation is delivered digitally, usually within 24 hours for documents of one to three pages, and same-day delivery is available. If anything needs adjusting, we revise it.

Certified vs. standard translation

A certified translation is a word-for-word translation accompanied by a signed statement attesting to its accuracy and completeness. It is what official bodies require: USCIS, courts, universities and government agencies. Certified translations are $24.95 per page, where one sheet of your document is one page, with no word cap.

A standard translation is the same professional human translation without the certificate, for when you only need to understand the content or for internal or informal use. It is billed at the same $24.95 per page with no word cap.

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