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Certified Moroccan Articles of Incorporation Translation

eVerbary translates your Moroccan articles of incorporation 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.

Statuts, the trade register and the ICE

A Moroccan company's founding document is its articles of association (statuts, النظام الأساسي), usually for an SARL (limited liability company) or an SA (public limited company). Before registration, the founders obtain a name clearance certificate (certificat négatif) from OMPIC, the industrial and commercial property office that keeps the central trade register. The company is then entered in the trade register (registre de commerce, RC) of the commercial court's registry.

Moroccan company documents carry several identifiers: the RC number with the city of registration, the tax identifier (IF), and since 2016 the common company identifier (ICE), a 15-digit number that every company must hold and print on its invoices. We copy each one exactly as printed and keep the share capital in dirhams. Statuts are often in French, sometimes with an Arabic version; when both are submitted, both are translated, with any signature legalisation stamps.

What US uses need

Moroccan company documents appear in L-1 and E-2 petitions, in proof of a sponsor's income or assets, and in US bank or vendor due diligence. Besides the statuts, the file often needs a recent trade register extract showing the managers and capital, and minutes of the decisions appointing them. Ask the receiving office how recent the register extract must be, because a change of manager or capital after the statuts were signed shows up only there.

We translate legal forms and corporate bodies as they are, such as the gérant of an SARL or the board of an SA, with an explanation where helpful, instead of renaming an SARL as a US LLC. An officer comparing your company with a US entity can then see exactly what the Moroccan form is. See our corporate immigration translations, the Moroccan bank statement page, our French page and our Arabic 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.

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