Brazilian academic transcript translation

A Brazilian academic transcript (histórico escolar) lists every subject, grade, and workload, and we translate all of it, including the school and registry details, the seals, and any notes, so an admissions office or evaluator reads the full record.

Schools and evaluators such as WES usually ask for the transcript alongside the diploma. We handle the transcript translation and Brazilian diploma translation together so the two documents agree, and we keep the course names clear in English.

Every transcript comes with a signed Certificate of Accuracy that meets 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3). Standard delivery is within 24 hours, with a 4-hour rush at $9 a page. The school or evaluator receiving it sets its own requirements, so follow their instructions.

Who reads a university histórico escolar

Graduate admissions offices, credential evaluators such as WES, and licensing boards. Each reads every course, its workload and credits, the grade, and the final standing, then applies its own review. Our job is to give them a faithful English record to work from, not to convert it for them, so check the evaluator's own current requirements before you order.

What the translation preserves

Every disciplina with its carga horária and its créditos, the grade (nota or conceito), the period or semestre it was taken, the situation (aprovado, reprovado, dispensado, trancado), and the institution and registry details with their seals. Grades are rendered exactly as printed and never rescaled to a US 4.0 system.

Carga horária, hora-aula, and créditos

Two different columns carry two different numbers. The carga horária is the course's workload in hours, which can cover class time and other required activities, and the créditos is the credit value the university assigned it. Where the transcript separates a hora-aula (a class period) from a hora-relógio (a full 60-minute hour), we keep that distinction and any note that explains it. Each number stays under its own heading, so sixty horas never reads as a grade of sixty, and we leave the conversion into US credits to the evaluator.

The coeficiente de rendimento

Many transcripts print a coeficiente de rendimento (CR) or an índice de rendimento acadêmico (IRA), a performance average the institution defines itself. The formula and the scale vary from one university to the next, so we copy the name, the abbreviation, and the value exactly, along with any explanation of how it was calculated, and we do not restate it as a US GPA. The evaluator works out its own equivalence, and a faithful number is worth more to it than a converted one.

Grades, conceitos, and status words

Universities grade by number or by letter and concept, each on its own scale: a 0-to-10 at many, a 0-to-100 at some, and a concept set such as the SS, MS, MM, MI, II, SR used at the Universidade de Brasília. We keep the grades as printed and translate the transcript's own grading legend. The status words matter just as much: aprovado is passed and reprovado is failed, reprovado por falta is failed for attendance, dispensado means the student was exempted from a requirement, trancado is a temporary interruption of the enrollment, and cancelado is a cancellation. Those last two are not the same thing, so we translate each exactly as the record has it.

Integralização, the diploma, and digital transcripts

A university transcript often shows what the degree required and what the student completed, the integralização curricular, which can include required and elective coursework, the estágio supervisionado (supervised internship), and the trabalho de conclusão de curso (the final project), plus whether the degree was conferred. We keep what is finished and what is still outstanding as shown. Evaluators usually want the transcript with the diploma, so send both, and if the record is digital, send the original PDF so the validation code and the seals survive, which a screenshot tends to cut off.

Every order is translated by Ivy, who grew up reading these documents in Brazil, and arrives with her signed Certificate of Accuracy, the exact certification USCIS asks for.

Everything USCIS requires, included in every order