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Certified Taiwanese National ID Card Translation

eVerbary translates your Taiwanese national ID card 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.

Required from age 14

Every Taiwan national with a household registration must apply for a National Identification Card (國民身分證) at 14, and a younger child may be issued one (Household Registration Act, art. 57). It is issued by the household registration office and must be replaced whenever a registration changes the details printed on it, such as a change of name, so many adults have held several cards. Send both sides of the card you are submitting; we translate both.

The card is the document used inside Taiwan; the passport is for travel. The household registration booklet (戶口名簿) and the household registration transcript are separate documents, and a US office may ask for one of them instead. Dates on the card are in Minguo years, which we keep and follow with the Gregorian year in brackets. Each is translated as a separate document.

Reading the ID number

The national ID number has ten characters: a letter standing for the city or county, then nine digits, of which the first is a sex code and the last a check digit. It is assigned at birth registration or initial registration and follows the person through every record, so it ties a file together. We copy it character by character. The household number on the booklet is a separate eight-character code.

The State Department notes that ID numbers are changed in some circumstances, for example when a duplicate is found, so an older document can show a different number. We translate each document as printed and do not reconcile numbers. Names are in Traditional characters, surname first and with no space, and we spell them as in your passport. See our Chinese 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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