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Certified Hong Kong Death Certificate Translation
eVerbary translates your Hong Kong death 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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Most 1-3 page documents are delivered within 24 hours. Same-day available.
Form 18, the death entry and the Coroner
A death from natural causes in Hong Kong must be registered within 24 hours, usually by the nearest relative, who takes the Medical Certificate of the Cause of Death (Form 18), signed by the doctor who attended the final illness, to a Deaths Registry with the deceased's identity card or travel document. Registration takes about 30 minutes, and the registry then issues a certified copy of the death entry, the document commonly called the death certificate, embossed with the seal of the General Register Office.
Deaths from unnatural causes, such as poisoning or violence, are reported to the Coroner, who may order a post-mortem or an inquest. The Coroner usually takes one to six months to determine the cause, then informs the Registrar, who registers the death within a week and writes to the family. Only the Births and Deaths General Register Office in Admiralty registers these deaths. A file may therefore contain Form 18, the certified death entry and Coroner's papers, and they are three different documents.
Cause of death, names and older records
The cause of death is translated term for term, keeping any medical terms written in English or Latin as they are. If the entry is entirely in English, USCIS needs no translation; if it includes Chinese, for example the deceased's Chinese name, an address or an annotation, we translate it in full and reproduce the English as printed. The deceased's name follows the spelling on their identity card or passport if you send it.
Death records exist from 1873, except for the Japanese occupation of 1941 to 1945. A death certificate usually proves that an earlier marriage ended, supports a survivor's claim or settles an estate; see the Hong Kong marriage certificate and medical records pages. USCIS does not require an apostille; the Registrar of the High Court apostilles death certificates where another authority asks. See our Chinese 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
The death was referred to the Coroner.
Then the death was registered after the Coroner's finding, sometimes months later. We translate the certificate and any Coroner's papers you have.
Is Form 18 the death certificate?
No. Form 18 is the doctor's medical certificate; the death certificate is the certified copy of the death entry. We translate either or both.
The certificate is mostly English with a Chinese name.
USCIS expects the whole document in English, so we translate the Chinese and keep the rest as printed.
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Upload your documents and receive your certified translation, typically within 24 hours.