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Certified Moroccan Paternity Acknowledgment Translation

eVerbary translates your Moroccan paternity acknowledgment 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.

Filiation under the Family Code

Moroccan law distinguishes filiation to the mother, established by birth, and paternity (nasab), which the 2004 Family Code says is established by the conjugal bed, by acknowledgment, or by sexual relations by error. Paternity can be proven by the father's acknowledgment, the testimony of two adouls, witnesses or judicial expertise. A child whose paternity is established by acknowledgment or a court decision takes the father's name and inherits from him.

Only the father can acknowledge paternity (iqrar), and the acknowledgment must be proven by an official certification or an indisputable handwritten statement. The father must be of sound mind, the child's paternity must otherwise be unknown, and an adult child must accept it. A special rule covers a pregnancy during an engagement where the marriage could not be concluded.

What the documents look like, and adoption

In practice the acknowledgment is usually an adoul act or a court judgment, and its effect then appears as a marginal note on the child's birth certificate. For a US petition, translate the act or judgment together with a full copy of the birth record showing the note. Where a court relied on judicial expertise, the judgment cites it.

Adoption has no legal effect in Moroccan law; a child may instead be placed in kafala, a form of care that does not create filiation. The civil status law provides for kafala to be noted in the margin of the child's birth record. A kafala order is not proof of a parent-child relationship for US immigration, and we translate it for what it is, without calling it an adoption. See our Arabic page and our French 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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