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Certified Yemeni Paternity Acknowledgment Translation

eVerbary translates your Yemeni paternity acknowledgment 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.

Acknowledgment of lineage (iqrar)

Yemeni law has no adoption: the State Department notes there is no provision for it under Sharia law in Yemen, and Article 135 of the Personal Status Law states that lineage is not established by adoption. Paternity is established by marriage or by acknowledgment (إقرار). Under Articles 124 to 126, a man who acknowledges a child of unknown lineage as his own establishes the lineage if reason and law do not contradict it, and he may not later retract it.

The Civil Status Law adds that a child registered without known parents has the parents' field left blank unless a parent acknowledges paternity, which then fills it. Court clerks must report final judgments proving lineage (إثبات النسب) to the civil registry within 15 days. We translate the acknowledgment, the judgment or the amended entry exactly. See our Arabic page.

Court judgments in US cases

Because births often go unregistered in Yemen, families use district court judgments to establish who a child's parents are. The State Department notes that these rest on testimony the court does not verify and gives them the weight of an affidavit. A judgment may still be the document you have; we translate it in full, with the names of witnesses, the court and every seal, and USCIS or a consulate may ask for further evidence such as DNA testing.

Names are translated as the chain printed, the child's given name followed by the father's and grandfather's names, and spelled as in the passports, so the father's name on the child's documents can be matched with his own. Where a child's documents carry the father's family or tribal name, we keep it exactly as printed. See the Yemeni birth certificate and Yemeni marriage certificate pages.

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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