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Certified Cuban Death Certificate Translation

Get your Cuban death certificate translated into English by a professional human translator, with a signed certification accepted by USCIS, courts and universities. Flat $24.95 per page and a 100% USCIS acceptance guarantee.

A certification transcribed from the register book

Cuban deaths are held by the Registro del Estado Civil of the municipality, and what is issued is a certificación transcribed from the register — the tomo and folio, the deceased, the date. Older entries are handwritten, and the ink and paper of decades-old books photograph badly.

Documents reaching the United States frequently carry legalisation pages, which are part of what you are submitting and are translated with the certification. See our Cuban birth certificate page.

Legibility, and what we will not do

On a handwritten certification some entries genuinely cannot be read. We translate everything legible and mark the rest as illegible rather than reconstructing a plausible version — and on a cause of death a guess is worse than a gap.

Both surnames are carried across in the order the document gives them. Dropping the second is how a deceased person stops matching the rest of an estate file, and an estate is exactly where that mismatch is expensive.

The cause of death is not interpreted

The cause-of-death block is the part of the document that most invites a translator to help, and the part where helping does the most damage. It is written by the certifying doctor, often by hand, often in abbreviations, sometimes in Latin, and frequently hedged — "probable", "consistent with", an underlying condition listed beneath an immediate one. A translation that resolves that into a single clean diagnosis has stated a cause the doctor did not.

So it is reproduced at the register it was written in. Abbreviations are expanded only where the expansion is unambiguous, and flagged where it is not. The distinction between the immediate cause, the underlying cause and contributing conditions is preserved, because insurers and courts read those lines differently. Anything genuinely illegible is marked illegible rather than guessed at — a plausible guess about a cause of death is the most expensive thing a translator can offer.

Where these go, and what each one wants

A death certificate is rarely wanted for its own sake. It goes to an estate or probate court, to an insurer, to a pension or Social Security office, to a bank closing an account, to a registrar before a surviving spouse remarries, or into an immigration file — and those ask for different things. Some want the full certificate including the medical block; some want only the fact and date of death; some want a recent certified copy rather than the original issued years ago.

Ask the office before ordering, because the answer changes what you should get from the registry, not just what we translate. Related: our general death certificate page, autopsy reports and powers of attorney.

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 a page is up to 250 words.

A standard translation is for business or personal use where certification is not needed, such as CVs, client intake forms or marketing material, and is billed at the same $24.95 per page of up to 250 words.

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