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Certified Venezuelan Identity Card (Cédula de Identidad) Translation

eVerbary translates your Venezuelan identity card (Cédula de Identidad) 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.

What the card is and who issues it

The Venezuelan cédula de identidad is issued by SAIME. Because many holders cannot return, what reaches us is frequently a photograph several copies deep, and we say plainly what is legible and what is not.

The identity number is reproduced exactly, never translated — it is what ties the card to every other document in a file. See our Venezuelan birth certificate page and our Spanish page.

Two surnames, and both sides

Both surnames are part of the legal name and both are carried across in the order the card gives them. Dropping the second is how a person stops matching their own file, and on an identity document that is the one thing the document exists to prevent.

Both sides are translated. The reverse usually carries the address, the issuing office, the signature and the machine-readable zone, and a front-only translation is an incomplete document.

Every field is translated, including the ones US cards do not have

National identity cards carry fields US documents do not: religion, ethnicity or nationality-within-the-state, blood type, marital status, the father's or mother's name, a registered address, an expiry that governs rights rather than travel. A translator who quietly omits one because it has no US equivalent has edited a government document — and it is frequently the omitted field that a file actually turns on.

So every printed field is translated, labelled as the card labels it, and the identity number is reproduced exactly, never translated. Those numbers commonly encode a date of birth, a sex or a place of registration, so altering the digits alters the record. Both sides are translated, because the reverse is where the address, the issuing office and the machine-readable zone usually sit.

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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