Translating a document from the Philippines for a Canadian application
PSA certificates are issued in English and do not need translating. What does are the local documents: barangay certificates, affidavits, older civil registry records, school documents — written in Filipino, and often by hand. No Canadian professional order certifies Tagalog: the route is translation accompanied by an affidavit.
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PSA certificates are issued in English and do not need translating. Your local documents, however, are often in Filipino: barangay certificates, affidavits, sworn statements. Asiatis translates them and accompanies them with an affidavit, the route IRCC provides for Tagalog.
View the guideRehistro ng Sibillocal civil registry recordsYour PSA certificate is in English and can be filed as it stands. What holds applications up are the handwritten Filipino marginal annotations and the older municipal records it was drawn from. Asiatis translates those, with the affidavit IRCC provides for Tagalog.
View the guideWhat does not need translating
- NBI Clearance and PSA certificates
- IRCC says so on its page for the Philippines: "No translation is required, the NBI Clearance certificate is in English." PSA certificates — birth, marriage, CENOMAR — are likewise issued in English and can be filed as they stand. Do not pay to translate them. The one exception is a handwritten Filipino annotation entered in the margin after a legitimation, an acknowledgement, an adoption or a correction: that does have to be translated, and it is almost always where a Philippine application snags.