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Certified Hong Kong Marriage Certificate Translation
eVerbary translates your Hong Kong 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.
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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.
Registry, church or civil celebrant
A Hong Kong marriage is preceded by a notice of intended marriage to the Registrar of Marriages. After at least 15 days the Registrar can issue a Certificate of Registrar of Marriages, valid for three months from the notice. The ceremony then takes place at a marriage registry before a Registrar, in a licensed place of public worship before a minister, or anywhere in Hong Kong before a civil celebrant of marriages, an option opened by the Marriage Amendment Ordinance in March 2006. Both parties must be at least 16 and two witnesses aged 18 or over sign.
Two certificates of marriage are signed at the ceremony: the couple keeps the original and the Registrar keeps the duplicate. The certificate bears the embossed seal of the Registrar of Marriages, and the officiant may be a Deputy Registrar, a minister or a civil celebrant. Copies issued later by the Marriage Registration and Records Office, applied for on Form MR10, are titled "Certified True Copy of Certificate of Marriage". Records run from 1945; pre-war marriages may only be documented by the church where they took place.
Translating it for a US petition
Every signature line, the officiant's capacity, the witnesses and the seal are part of the translation. Names follow the spelling on each spouse's passport or Hong Kong identity card if you send them. If the certificate you hold is entirely in English, USCIS needs no translation of it; any Chinese text means a full translation. A spousal petition also asks how earlier marriages ended, so a Hong Kong divorce decree or death certificate is often needed too.
USCIS does not require an apostille. Where another authority does, the Registrar of the High Court apostilles marriage certificates signed by a Deputy Registrar of Marriages; a certificate signed by a civil celebrant or issued at a church or temple must first be replaced by a certified true copy from the Marriage Registry. Someone who needs to show they never married in Hong Kong can obtain a Certificate of Absence of Marriage Record (Form MR35), which we translate the same way. 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
We married before a civil celebrant at a hotel.
That is a normal Hong Kong marriage since 2006. We translate the certificate the celebrant signed, or the certified true copy.
Our certificate is in English.
If there is no Chinese text on it, USCIS does not need a translation. If there is, we translate the whole document.
I need proof that I never married in Hong Kong.
That is the Certificate of Absence of Marriage Record from the Immigration Department. We translate it in full.
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