Brazilian death certificate translation

We translate the full death certificate (certidão de óbito), including cause and place of death, the registry details, and the official seal, so it is accepted for immigration, probate, and insurance.

We handle these documents with care and return them formatted to match the original, with a signed Certificate of Accuracy attached.

Who reads a Brazilian death certificate

Immigration filings where a relative has died, probate and estate matters, survivor benefits at Social Security, and life insurance and pension claims. The reader wants the same facts in English: who died, when and where, the cause as recorded, and the registry details that identify the cartório and the entry.

What the translation preserves

The full name of the deceased, the date, time, and place of death, the cause of death as recorded, the person's filiação and civil status, the surviving spouse and children when the certificate lists them, the declarante, and the registry block: the cartório, the livro (book), the folha (page), the termo (entry), and the matrícula, with every seal. Medical wording is rendered faithfully, not reinterpreted.

The cause of death, as the document records it

The certidão de óbito states the causa mortis, drawn from the Declaração de Óbito completed by the responsible physician, who may be the attending doctor, a doctor at a serviço de verificação de óbito, or a forensic doctor at the IML. It may list an immediate cause and the underlying conditions in medical Portuguese, and sometimes in Latin. We translate it faithfully, keep the order the document gives, and carry across any statement that the cause was undetermined. We render what is written; we do not diagnose or interpret it.

The declarante and who reported the death

The declarante is the person who gave the information for the registration, and the certificate names them, any representative who acted for them, and any relationship to the deceased it states. For probate and estate readers that line matters, so it is translated in full rather than summarized.

Civil status, children, and notes on property

A death certificate often records whether the person was solteiro, casado, viúvo, or divorciado, names a surviving spouse, notes whether they deixou filhos (left children), and may state whether there was a known will (testamento conhecido) or property. We translate each field as written, including a note that something was unknown, and we leave who inherits to the estate process and your attorney. Where a marriage or a divorce is referenced, the matching marriage certificate is often translated alongside it, and the Brazilian divorce decree translation page covers the divorce paperwork itself.

Inteiro teor, late registration, and digital certificates

The inteiro teor reproduces the full entry, as a transcription or an image copy, including any averbação such as a correction or a judicial note. Some deaths are registered late by court order (óbito registrado tardiamente), and that order is part of the record. Many certificates are now issued electronically, with a selo digital, a QR code, and the matrícula through the national CRC network. Send the original file or a clear image of every page so the cause, the registry block, and the verification line all come through.

Ivy, a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, translates and signs every order herself, and each one ships with the Certificate of Accuracy that 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) requires.

Everything USCIS requires, included in every order