Marriage Certificate Translation Services in Singapore

The translation can be ready in 12 to 24 hours on the urgent plan. The notary and SAL steps sit with other people, so a full notarised set inside a week is tight but often doable. Send the scan today and message us on WhatsApp with the date. We will tell you straight away what we can hold to, and we will not take your money if we cannot make it.

Nearly always one of three things. No notary public on the file when ICA wanted one. A stamp or a side note left out. Or a name spelt one way on the certificate and another way on the passport. Send us the rejected copy plus whatever the officer wrote back, and we will tell you which one it was before we redo anything.

No, and this catches a lot of couples out. Neither husband nor wife may translate their own marriage certificate, however good their languages are. It has to come from someone outside the marriage, and for ICA a notary public has to sign it after. Doing it yourself usually costs six weeks, not savings.

It happens all the time, especially with Chinese and Indian names written out in English different ways over the years. We cannot change what the certificate says and we would never try. What we do is spell it the way her passport does wherever the original allows, and add a short note from the translator explaining the difference where it does not. Send both passport pages so we can see both sides.

We translate whatever you were given, temple, church, mosque or registry. What we cannot do is turn a ceremony record into a legal one. Some countries treat the religious paper as the legal proof and some ask you to register it separately with the state. Send us a picture and tell us the country. We will say plainly whether the office here is likely to take it or whether you need the registry version too.

Only the pages that carry writing. Chinese red booklets, Indonesian Buku Nikah and several South Asian formats run over many leaves, and most of those leaves are blank. Photograph all of them so we can see which ones matter, then we quote on the ones with text, stamps or handwriting.

Yes. Marriage files carry names, dates of birth, ID numbers and sometimes a divorce history, so we treat them as private. Only the translator on your job and the checker see the file. The notary sees it because he has to sign it. Ask us and we will confirm the arrangement in writing before you send anything.

A certified copy starts at S$40 a page and urgent starts at S$70. The notarised set that ICA asks for starts at S$120 a document, with the SAL fee on top at what it really costs. The part people forget is the earlier marriage. If either of you was married before, that is two more papers, not one. Send the scans and you will have a full figure inside the hour.

SAL is the Singapore Academy of Law. Since 1 October 2019, whenever a Notary Public here signs a paper, SAL has to confirm that signature is genuine. It is a separate office with its own queue, which is why a notarised job runs longer than a certified one. SAL is also the only body here allowed to give an apostille for use overseas.

Yes. ICA wants to see that the first marriage legally ended, however long ago it was or which country it happened in. That means three papers: your certificate, the earlier certificate, and the divorce order or the death certificate. All three take the same road through translation, notary and SAL. Send them together and they move as one bundle, which is faster and cheaper.

Not for anything inside Singapore. ROM writes its certificates in English, so no local office will ask. You only need one when it goes overseas, such as a spouse visa in another country, a foreign school, a property deal or a family estate matter. Then we put it into their language and add the notary and apostille steps.

No, it is a choice. Your overseas marriage is already valid here. If you do go ahead, ROM wants the English version signed off first, either by that country's foreign ministry or apostille office and then the Singapore Embassy there, or by that country's embassy in Singapore. Allow up to two weeks for the check, and note that walk-ins are not taken.

Yes, because the certificate is what proves you two are married. LTVP and LTVP+ go through ICA, so those want the notarised set. A Dependant's Pass through MOM is usually happy with a certified copy. Tell us which pass you are on and we will name the level you need, instead of selling you the dearer one by habit.

A phone photo works if the light is even and every word is sharp. Lay the certificate flat, no shadow across it, and shoot straight down rather than at an angle. Your original stays with you. For some notary work the notary may want to see the real thing, and we will warn you well before that day.