Name Change Certificate Translation Services in Singapore

ICA names three routes. One, a translation made by the embassy of the country that issued your paper. Two, one made by a notary public here or in that country. Three, a private translation that is afterwards attested by that embassy or notarised by a notary public in Singapore. A company stamp alone is not on the list, so for PR, citizenship and long term passes, plan for the notarised route. Since 1 October 2019 a notarised paper here also needs SAL authentication. And be wary of anyone promising you approval, because ICA endorses no private company.

Certified work starts at S$40 a page. Urgent service starts at S$70 a page. The ICA version, certified plus notarised, starts at S$120 a document, with the SAL fee added at exactly what it costs us. Rarer languages sit higher. Send the scan and a firm number reaches you inside the hour.

Both, and that is the whole point of the document. The translation shows the name you had, the name you now have, and the date the change took effect, exactly as the original sets them out. We never quietly replace one with the other, because the officer needs to see the join. If your passport spells the new name slightly differently, we add a short translator note pointing that out rather than hiding it.

SAL is the Singapore Academy of Law. Since 1 October 2019, whenever a Notary Public here signs something, SAL has to authenticate that signature. So if your file is taking the notarised route, this step rides along with it. SAL is also the only body in Singapore able to issue an apostille, which is the stamp you need when the paper is leaving the country.

Not quite, and this saves people money. In many countries a married name follows from the marriage certificate itself, so that certificate is the proof and no separate deed exists. If that is your situation, you need the marriage certificate translated, not a name change paper. Send us both scans and we will tell you which one the office actually wants. Sometimes the answer is that you only need one of them.

An Indian name change usually comes as a set: the sworn affidavit, the newspaper advertisements, and the gazette notification itself. Send all three and tell us which office is asking. Some accept the gazette page alone, others want the whole bundle. We translate what is needed and say plainly when a page can be left out, because there is no sense charging you for paper nobody will read.

Not while it stays in Singapore. A deed poll signed here is in English, so ICA, ROM and your bank can read it as it is. The moment it goes overseas, though, the receiving office usually wants it in their language, notarised, and carrying an apostille. Tell us the destination country and we will lay out the exact chain before you spend anything.

Only if they are in a language the office cannot read. If your degree is already in English, it stays as it is and the name change paper does the linking work. Where several old papers do need translating, send them together. Run as one job they come back with the same spelling on every page, which is exactly what a reviewer is checking for.

We follow your passport, always. A name written in Chinese, Tamil, Arabic or Burmese can be spelt several defensible ways in English, and picking a fresh one would create a fourth version of you. So send the passport page with the scan. Where the original clearly reads differently from the passport, we spell it as the passport does and add a note explaining the other reading.

Yes, send both. An officer has to follow the chain the whole way, from the name on your birth certificate to the name on your passport today. Skipping the middle step leaves a gap they cannot close, and the file comes back. We translate both papers and set the sequence out clearly, with dates, so the path is obvious at a glance.

Usually, yes. Deeds and court orders from decades ago cross our desk often. Send the clearest scan you can manage, and photograph it in daylight rather than under a desk lamp. Where a word genuinely cannot be read, we mark it unclear in a note instead of inventing something. Officers would far rather see that honesty than a guess that turns out wrong.

A clear scan does the job and your original never leaves your home. Include every page and both sides where anything is written on the back. For certain notary work the notary may ask to see the original, and we will warn you in advance if that applies. Where an office also wants a stamped copy of the original itself, that is handled by our certified true copy services in Singapore.

The translation alone can be done in 12 to 24 hours on the urgent plan. The notary and SAL steps sit in other people's diaries, so the full notarised version in three days is not something we can promise every time. Send it now and message us on WhatsApp so it is flagged. You will get a straight yes or no, and if we cannot make your date we will not take your money.

Yes. Every translation goes out on letterhead with a signature and a stamp. Collect it from our office or let us courier it over for a small fee. Notarised sets are always physical, because the notary signs an actual page. Most people keep the PDF for uploading and the paper copy for the counter.