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Certified Colombian Disability Certificate Translation
Certified translation of the documents that certify disability in Colombia, including the registry annotations and endorsements that carry the legal effect and that a reader unfamiliar with the system will otherwise skip.
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The certificate and the RLCPD are two steps
Colombia issues a certificado de discapacidad following a multidisciplinary assessment at an authorised health provider, and the holder is then entered in the Registro de Localización y Caracterización de Personas con Discapacidad (RLCPD).
The certificate is the finding; the registry entry is what most entitlements are keyed to. A person holding only the certificate may not yet appear in the registry, and offices sometimes ask for evidence of the second.
Categories, not a single number
The assessment records categories of disability — physical, visual, hearing, intellectual, psychosocial, multiple — together with a level of difficulty in performance and the supports required, following the international functioning framework rather than producing a single percentage.
A US reader looking for a percentage will not find one, and that absence is not an incomplete document. We translate the categories and levels as recorded.
Pérdida de capacidad laboral is a different number
Colombia separately assesses pérdida de capacidad laboral — loss of working capacity — as a percentage, under the Manual Único de Calificación, by an EPS, an ARL, a pension fund or a Junta de Calificación de Invalidez. Fifty per cent is the threshold for an invalidity pension.
That percentage is an employment and pension determination and is not the disability certificate. The two are constantly confused and we name which document is in front of the reader.
The juntas, and the appeal chain
A loss-of-capacity determination can be appealed from the assessing entity to a Junta Regional de Calificación de Invalidez and then to the Junta Nacional, so a file may contain three successive determinations with different percentages.
The last in the chain is the operative one, and we translate the whole sequence with dates so the reader can see it. 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, and every seal, stamp and registry endorsement is translated with the text. See how we translate and certified versus standard.
Frequently asked questions
Certificate or registry?
The certificate is the finding; the RLCPD entry is what most entitlements are keyed to. Offices sometimes want both.
Where is the percentage?
The disability certificate records categories and levels rather than a percentage. A percentage means a loss-of-working-capacity assessment, which is a different instrument.
What does 50% mean?
The threshold for an invalidity pension under the loss-of-working-capacity assessment.
My file has three different percentages.
An appeal chain from the assessing entity to the regional and then the national junta. The last is operative and we translate the sequence.
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