Malayalam Translation Services
DHCTranslations translates Malayalam documents in the US, and in many Kerala files the paper that carries the date of birth is the school leaving certificate rather than a birth registration. Fifty-four dollars covers a document, the signed statement and the PDF.
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Malayalam documents we translate for US files
Birth certificate
The local body's registration, with its number, the ward and the office that holds the register.
School leaving certificate
The ten-year certificate, with the grades, the board and the date of birth the school recorded.
Higher secondary record
The two-year record after the ten-year certificate, with the subjects and grades the board issued.
Marriage certificate
The registrar's entry, with the witnesses, the date of registration and any note added later.
Death certificate
The death entry, with the informant, the recorded cause and the office that issued it.
Degree certificate
The university degree, with the college, the year of award and the class as conferred.
Marksheet
A university mark list or consolidated grade sheet, course by course, with the scale stated.
Police clearance
The clearance certificate, with its reference, the period covered and the date it stops being current.
Community certificate
The revenue office certificate, with the reference and the officer's name kept where they appear.
Medical records
Discharge summaries, operation notes and immunization records, with the diagnosis written out in full.
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What a certified Malayalam translation costs
Certified translations start at $54 per document: from $0.12 per word after the first 400 words into English, and from $0.14 per word for English into another language, with some pairs quoted higher.
Certification is the translator's signed statement, and it is included in the price.
A translation for USCIS, a US court or a US university is certified by the translator's signed statement, and nothing further is added to the quote.
$54
From, per document
$0.12+
Per word after 400, into English
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What a certified Malayalam translation is checked for
The grade sheet and the missing-registration problem are where a Kerala file is misread, so the certificate states both: what the school record is being used to prove, and what a grade stands for where the board printed no mark.
What the certification includes
- Signed statement of accuracy: the translator's name, signature and date, their CIOL or ITI membership number, our company stamp and our contact details.
- Grades are left as grades: where a certificate reports a band instead of a mark, the band is translated and the scale noted, because an evaluator decides the equivalence and a translator who invents a percentage removes the evidence.
- The chain is named: the ten-year certificate, the higher secondary record and the degree are identified as three stages, so a reader can see which part of a twelve-year schooling the file actually contains.
- Certified PDF: the certified file is emailed at no extra cost, which is what a US filing accepts. A printed set can be arranged if a receiving body insists on paper, and is quoted per order.
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When the school certificate is the birth record
Kerala registers births through the local body that covers the address, so a certificate carries that body's number rather than a state-wide one. For anyone born at home before registration was routine, no such record exists, and the school leaving certificate becomes the document that carries the date of birth. It reports grades rather than marks as well, which changes what a US reader is looking at.
Birth certificate
- On the Malayalam document
- ജനന സർട്ടിഫിക്കറ്റ്
- Issued by
- the local body covering the address
Marriage certificate
- On the Malayalam document
- വിവാഹ സർട്ടിഫിക്കറ്റ്
- Issued by
- the local registrar
Death certificate
- On the Malayalam document
- മരണ സർട്ടിഫിക്കറ്റ്
- Issued by
- the local registrar
Police clearance
- On the Malayalam document
- പോലീസ് ക്ലിയറൻസ് സർട്ടിഫിക്കറ്റ്
- Issued by
- the police, with its own validity window
Community certificate
- On the Malayalam document
- ജാതി സർട്ടിഫിക്കറ്റ്
- Issued by
- the revenue office
Marksheet
- On the Malayalam document
- മാർക്ക് ലിസ്റ്റ്
- Issued by
- the school or the university
Three things decide how a Kerala file reads. The registration is held by the local body, so two certificates for one family can carry numbers and headings from different offices. The school leaving certificate reports a grade against a band rather than a mark out of a hundred, so the translation states the band and leaves the conversion to the evaluator. And school records run in a chain - the ten-year certificate, the two-year higher secondary record and then the degree - so an evaluator usually wants all three rather than the degree alone.
What our clients say
Rated 4.9/5 from 314 verified reviews for USCIS submissions, court filings and credential evaluations.
“The clearance was translated with the period covered and the validity date clear, which is exactly what the caseworker queried on my first attempt elsewhere.”
Sreeja P.
“The panchayat register number was reproduced exactly and the spouse visa application went through without a request for further evidence.”
Anitha M.
“A handwritten reference was transcribed and certified within 24 hours.”
Aisha B.
The certification, the price and the turnaround are the same for Malayalam documents sent from anywhere in the United States. Start with the page that matches what you need:
Frequently asked questions
DHCTranslations handles Malayalam documents in the US, including local body birth registrations, school certificates and university papers, and each translation carries a statement signed by the translator who produced it.
The school leaving certificate usually carries the date of birth, because the school recorded it from the parents' declaration at admission. That certificate, translated with the school and the board named, is what a US filing accepts where the local register holds nothing.
DHCTranslations charges $54 for a document up to 400 words, then $0.12 per word into English or $0.14 from English into Malayalam. The signed statement and the emailed PDF are part of the same charge.
The Kerala board reports a band against each subject rather than a mark out of a hundred, so there is no percentage on the paper to carry across. The translation states the band and the scale, and the evaluator places it.
Usually all three stages: the ten-year certificate, the two-year higher secondary record and the degree. A file holding only the degree leaves the evaluator unable to see how the twelve years were completed.
Kerala registers births through the local body that covers the address, so the number belongs to that office rather than to a state registry. Two certificates in one family can therefore carry different office names and different sequences.
USCIS wants the full text in English and a statement signed by the translator, which every order carries. Send the certificate as the local body issued it, because a re-typed copy loses the register number a reader uses to trace the entry.
It records the community an applicant belongs to, and it is issued by the revenue office for Indian purposes rather than for a US filing. It is translated when a file already contains one, and its absence is not a gap in a US application.
The degree and the mark list are translated with every subject, grade and credit intact, and DHCTranslations adds a note on the Kerala scale so the evaluator decides the equivalence rather than a translator.
Yes. DHCTranslations charges $0.14 per word from English into Malayalam, written by a native speaker of the language rather than adapted from Tamil or Hindi.
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