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Certified Power of Attorney Translation

eVerbary translates your power of attorney 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.

A notarial deed, not a one-page form

In most of the world a power of attorney is a notarial instrument: a deed drawn up before a notary, carrying a protocol or registry number, the identification of both parties, a long enumerated list of the powers granted, and a closing formula with stamps, seals and sometimes an apostille. Poder notarial, procuração, Vollmacht, procuration — the name changes, the structure rarely does.

Consular powers of attorney, signed at an embassy abroad, follow the same pattern and are translated the same way.

The enumerated powers are the document

Everything a power of attorney does is in the clause list: what the agent may sell, sign, collect, represent or renounce, and what they may not. Those clauses are translated one by one, in the order they appear, and nothing is condensed. A summary of a power of attorney is not a translation of it, and the one clause left out is always the one someone asks about.

Stamps, seals, notarial closing formulas and the apostille page are translated as well, because they are what make the instrument authentic on its face.

Translation is not validation

A certified translation makes a power of attorney readable in English and attests that the translation is accurate. It does not make the instrument valid in the United States, and it does not make a bank, a registry or a court accept it. Whether the instrument works here is a legal question for the institution receiving it or for an attorney.

A civil-law power of attorney is not a US form

In most of the world a power of attorney is a notarial instrument drawn by a civil-law notary, recited in the notary's own voice, entered in a protocol and issued to you as a certified copy. It is not a form the grantor filled in and signed, and there is no US document for it to be translated into.

The difference is worth stating because the word "notary" misleads. A civil-law notary is a legal professional who drafts the instrument and keeps the original in a register; a US notary public witnesses a signature and keeps nothing. We translate the instrument as written, including the notarial recitals, the protocol and registry references and every seal, and name the office as it names itself.

What the same document is called around the world

A Mexican power of attorney (poder) distinguishes general from special (especial) and names which acts it authorises — for lawsuits, for acts of administration, for acts of ownership — and that enumeration is the substance of the document. A Brazilian power of attorney (procuração) may be public (pública) or private (particular), and only the public form is drawn by the notary's office (cartório). A Colombian power may be notarial or a private document with authenticated signature, which are different instruments with different reach. A German power of attorney (Vollmacht) may be private, signature-certified or fully notarial, and which it is determines what it can do. A Russian power of attorney (доверенность) carries a number from the notarial register.

Many countries also allow one to be granted before their consulate abroad, which produces a consular instrument rather than a notarial one — a distinction the translation keeps rather than flattening.

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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