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Certified Portuguese Legal Separation Translation
eVerbary translates your Portuguese legal separation 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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Separação de pessoas e bens
Portugal has a legal separation that stops short of divorce: the separação de pessoas e bens. It does not end the marriage. It switches the couple's property regime to separation of property and ends the duty to live together and share household costs, but the spouses remain bound by fidelity, cooperation and respect, and neither can marry someone else.
Like a divorce, it can be granted at a Conservatória do Registo Civil when both spouses agree, or by a court when they do not. A separation can later be converted into a divorce: after a court separation, either spouse can ask for conversion a year later if they have not reconciled, and if both agree there is no need to wait. See the Portuguese divorce page.
Translating a separation correctly
The translation has to keep the difference between separation and divorce visible: separação is never rendered as divorce. Separated spouses are still married under Portuguese law, so a later marriage needs the divorce or the conversion, not the separation. We translate the decision and any annotation on the marriage record with their dates.
Separated spouses keep the surnames they took from each other; the rule on giving them up applies only after divorce. If you later converted the separation into a divorce, the file will show both steps with their own dates. Ask the US office which document it needs. See the Portuguese marriage certificate page, and for Brazil the Brazilian legal separation page, and our Portuguese 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
Is a separação the same as a divorce?
No. It does not end the marriage, and we translate it as a legal separation.
We converted our separation into a divorce.
Then the divorce is the document that ends the marriage. We translate both if the office wants the history.
Can a separation be done without a court?
Yes, at a Conservatória, when both spouses agree.
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Upload your documents and receive your certified translation, typically within 24 hours.