ROMANIA · CERTIFIED TRANSLATION
Certified Translation of Romania Documents for USCIS
Translating Romanian civil documents for USCIS demands close attention to the language's diacritics (ă, â, î, ș, ț), the surname-first name order used on official records, and the layered marginal annotations (mențiuni) that Romanian registrars add to a document over its life. Civil status is administered by local Civil Status Offices (Serviciul de Stare Civilă) inside each town hall, with 42 county-level registries, and the country began rolling out new digital certificate formats in 2025 under the SIIEASC system — so a single applicant's file may mix hand-completed Communist-era booklets with modern printouts, each requiring exact transcription. Documents from Transylvania and other historically mixed regions can carry Hungarian or German spellings of names and places that must be preserved rather than silently "corrected." Every translation we deliver includes a signed Certificate of Accuracy meeting 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), so USCIS accepts the Romanian original and its English rendering as one faithful pair.
Updated July 11, 2026 · Reviewed by Victor Luján, Founder — certified translations since 2018
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GOOD TO KNOW
Issuing Authority & Authentication
Civil records in Romania are issued by the Serviciul de Stare Civilă (Civil Status Office) · official language(s): Romanian. Romania is a party to the Hague Apostille Convention (in force since 2001), so its documents are authenticated with an apostille rather than US consular legalization: civil-status certificates and administrative documents are apostilled by the county Prefect's Office (Instituția Prefectului), while court judgments and notarial acts are apostilled through the tribunals/courts of appeal and the chambers of notaries public. Note that USCIS itself requires a certified English translation of each document and generally does not demand an apostille on filings submitted inside the United States.
Every document above is translated by a native specialist, reviewed by a second linguist, and delivered with a signed Certificate of Accuracy that USCIS accepts under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) — or we fix it free and cover your resubmission fee.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Does USCIS require an apostille on my Romanian documents?
For applications filed inside the United States, USCIS generally requires a full certified English translation, not an apostille. An apostille from the county Prefect's Office (or the courts/notary chamber for judgments) is usually needed only when a Romanian authority or an immigrant-visa consulate asks to authenticate the original record itself.
My birth certificate is the old handwritten booklet from before 1990 — can you still translate it?
Yes. We routinely translate hand-completed Communist-era certificates, preserving the diacritics (ă, â, î, ș, ț), the surname-first name order, and any marginal mențiuni, and we can work from a clear photo or scan of the original.
My documents are from Transylvania and use Hungarian spellings — will that be a problem for USCIS?
No. Our native-speaker specialists preserve the original Hungarian or German spellings of names and places exactly as written and note them in the translation, so USCIS sees a faithful match to your source documents rather than a silently 'corrected' version.
How much does a certified translation of a Romanian birth certificate or cazier judiciar cost, and how fast?
At $0.05 per word a short civil record such as a birth certificate or police clearance typically runs about $15–25 with 24–48 hour turnaround. Send us a photo by email at info@translationhelpdesk.com for an exact quote and a free 250-word sample.
What happens if USCIS rejects my translation?
Every document ships with a signed Certificate of Accuracy meeting 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3). Under our USCIS Rejection Pledge, if a filing is rejected because of our translation we fix it free and cover the resubmission fee.