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Certified Taiwanese Death Certificate Translation

eVerbary translates your Taiwanese death 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.

Signed by a doctor, not issued by an office

In Taiwan the death certificate (死亡證明書) is issued by the attending physician or hospital, not by a government agency. Under the Physicians Act a doctor may issue one only after personally examining the body, and the State Department expects the physician's signature, the date and the physician's seal in wet ink. Deaths that are not from natural causes, or are suspected not to be, must be reported to the prosecutors, and for a death outside a hospital the certificate comes from a prosecutor.

The death is then registered at the household registration office, normally within 30 days, by the spouse, a relative, the head of household or another person the Household Registration Act lists. It appears on the family's household registration record, and the State Department accepts the death registration record with that record in place of the certificate. For a death during military service, a military indemnity eligibility certificate is accepted as proof of death.

Cause of death, dates and names

The certificate states the cause of death in the doctor's words. The Medical Care Act asks doctors to take particular care over the cause of death, and we translate it term for term, without paraphrase, keeping any medical terms written in English or Latin as they are. Dates are given in Minguo years and followed by the Gregorian year in brackets, and the physician's or prosecutor's seal is noted where it appears.

A death certificate is usually needed to show that a previous marriage ended, to support a survivor's claim or to settle an estate. See the Taiwanese marriage certificate page, the household registration transcript page and our Chinese page. Names follow the deceased's passport spelling if you send it, so they match the rest of your file. If you also have the household record showing the death, we translate it alongside the certificate.

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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