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Certified Estonian Birth Certificate Translation
eVerbary translates your Estonian birth 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.
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Accepted by USCIS and by US universities, colleges and schools, or your money back.
24-hour delivery
Most 1-3 page documents are delivered within 24 hours. Same-day available.
A certificate printed from the population register
Since 1 July 2010 Estonia has recorded births only electronically, in the population register run by the Ministry of the Interior. A birth certificate today is therefore a printout or digitally sealed file drawn from that register. It is issued by a local government acting as vital statistics office (in Tallinn, the Vital Statistics Office), and an Estonian embassy can issue a repeat certificate. Certificates can be issued in Estonian, English, German or French, and extracts from the register in Estonian or English.
If you already hold an English-language certificate, ask the receiving office whether it needs more; any Estonian stamp or note on it still has to be translated. Older certificates come from the paper era, and births before 1926 were recorded by churches, whose books are now held by the National Archives. Certificates from the Soviet period may carry Russian text; we translate every language on the form. See our Estonian page and our Russian page.
The personal identification code
Every person registered in Estonia receives an eleven-digit personal identification code (isikukood). Under the Population Register Act it is formed from sex and date of birth: the first digit gives sex and century (3 or 4 for births in the 1900s, 5 or 6 for the 2000s), the next six the date as YYMMDD, then a three-digit serial and a check digit. Wherever it appears in your documents we copy it exactly, since US forms and other translations will be compared against it.
A code can change: in 2018 the Ministry of the Interior issued new codes to 295 people whose register birth date did not match their birth certificate. If two of your documents show different codes, we translate each as printed and can add a translator's note. Given names follow the Names Act, which allows up to three names or two joined by a hyphen. See the Estonian paternity acknowledgment 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.
Frequently asked questions
My certificate came as a digitally sealed PDF.
That is a normal Estonian format. We translate the content and record the seal details shown.
The certificate is already in English. Do I need a translation?
Only for any Estonian text on it, such as stamps or notes. Ask the receiving office first.
What does the long number under my name mean?
It is the personal identification code, built from sex, birth date and a serial number. We copy it exactly.
Ready to get started?
Upload your documents and receive your certified translation, typically within 24 hours.