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Certified Peruvian Criminal Record Certificate Translation

eVerbary translates your Peruvian criminal record 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.

Three different certificates

Peru issues three and they are not interchangeable. The criminal record (Antecedentes penales) comes from the judiciary and reports convictions. The judicial record (Antecedentes judiciales) reports proceedings. The police record (Antecedentes policiales) comes from the national police and reports police records. An office asking for "a criminal record certificate" may want one, two or all three.

Ordering the wrong one is a routine reason for a refusal that has nothing to do with the translation. Ask which before you buy anything — see our Peruvian birth certificate page.

The DNI, and two surnames

The DNI number runs through the file and is reproduced exactly.

Both surnames are carried across in the order the document gives them; dropping the second is how a person stops matching their own file. See our Spanish page.

What the certificate actually says

These documents are narrower than the English phrase that comes to hand for them. Most state that a specific register — a national criminal registry, a court archive, a police database — holds no entry for the named person as at the date of issue. "Has no criminal record" is a much larger claim: it asserts something about the person rather than about one registry on one day, and it silently covers jurisdictions the issuing authority never searched.

So the wording is translated at the scope the original had, with the registry named as the document names it. Where a certificate says an entry exists, the entry is translated exactly — the offence as classified in that country's own law, the article cited, the sentence — and no attempt is made to find a US equivalent offence, because there frequently is none and asserting one would recharacterise a conviction.

These certificates expire

Almost every country issues these with a validity period, commonly three or six months, and the receiving office applies its own rule on top. A certificate that has aged out will be refused whatever the translation says, and a translation cannot make an old certificate current. If yours is near the edge, order a fresh one before ordering a translation rather than after.

Check two things with the office before you buy anything: how recent the certificate has to be, and whether they want it apostilled — because an apostille is applied to the original document, so it has to happen before the translation, not after. Related: our general criminal record page and our USCIS 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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