Finnish Translation Services
DHCTranslations translates Finnish documents in the US, and the identity code needs care because the character in the middle of it is not punctuation: it states the century, and a form that drops it, or reads it as a hyphen, can move a birth date by a hundred years. A document costs $54, statement and PDF included.
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Finnish documents we translate for US files
Population extract
The printout from the population register, with the identity code, the address and the civil status.
Birth certificate
The birth record from the register office, with the names as they were entered at registration.
Marriage certificate
The marriage record, with the officiant, the witnesses and the date the register was amended.
Death certificate
The death record and the register entry that follows it, with the dates and the informant shown.
Criminal record extract
The extract from the criminal register, with the reference and the purpose it was issued for.
Matriculation certificate
The upper-secondary leaving certificate, with each subject and the Finnish grades explained.
Degree certificate
The university degree, with the institution, the field of study and the year it was conferred.
Transcript of studies
A course-by-course record, with the credits, the grades and the scale the institution used.
Court papers
A judgment, a declaration or a power of attorney, with the case number and both parties shown.
Medical records
Clinic letters, operation notes and vaccination entries, with a Finnish diagnosis written out.
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What a certified Finnish 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.
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Per word after 400, into English
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What a certified Finnish translation is checked for
The identity code is the thread that ties every Finnish paper to one person, so it is reproduced exactly and explained once, at the point it appears, rather than left as eleven characters a reader has to interpret.
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.
- The century sign is kept visible: the code is printed as it appears, with the sign written out and its meaning stated, so no reader mistakes it for a separator or loses a century.
- The check character is not recalculated: the last symbol is copied as printed, because it is computed from the whole code and a value worked out again would no longer match the register.
- 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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The dash in the middle is not a dash
A Finnish personal identity code is eleven characters, and the one between the date of birth and the running number is a century sign: a plus for the 1800s, a minus for the 1900s, and a letter from A onwards for the 2000s. Read it as a hyphen and the date loses its century. The last character is a check character, worked out from the whole string against a table of thirty-one symbols that deliberately leaves out letters which look like digits.
Population extract
- On the Finnish document
- ote väestötietojärjestelmästä
- Issued by
- the population data services agency
Birth certificate
- On the Finnish document
- syntymätodistus
- Issued by
- the register office, or the hospital that recorded it
Marriage certificate
- On the Finnish document
- vihkitodistus
- Issued by
- the register office, or the parish
Criminal record extract
- On the Finnish document
- rikosrekisteriote
- Issued by
- the legal register center
Matriculation certificate
- On the Finnish document
- ylioppilastutkintotodistus
- Issued by
- the matriculation examination board
Degree certificate
- On the Finnish document
- tutkintotodistus
- Issued by
- the university
Transcript of studies
- On the Finnish document
- opintosuoritusote
- Issued by
- the institution
Three things in a Finnish file deserve a second look. The century sign is part of the code and has to survive translation in a form a reader can see, because a plain hyphen would erase it. A letter from A onwards marks the 2000s, and the series was extended in 2023 with further letters as numbers ran out, so a code issued this year can look unfamiliar to a reader who learned the older pattern. And the running number inside the code records sex, which means the document states it twice: once in the number and once in words, and a translation that contradicts one of them is wrong.
What our clients say
Rated 4.9/5 from 314 verified reviews for USCIS submissions, court filings and credential evaluations.
“Laudatur and eximia were explained rather than translated as grades, and the admissions office could see exactly where I sat in the scale.”
Juha N.
“The course codes and credits were left as the transcript gives them and the grading was set out beside each subject, which is what the university asked for.”
Sanna R.
“The extract listed my parents and my spouse in one place, and the translator set out what each column meant so the caseworker stopped asking for a birth certificate.”
Aino V.
The certification, the price and the turnaround are the same for Finnish documents sent from anywhere in the United States. Start with the page that matches what you need:
Frequently asked questions
DHCTranslations handles Finnish documents in the US, including register printouts, matriculation certificates and transcripts, and each translation comes with a statement signed by the translator who did the work.
It is not a dash but a century sign. A plus marks the 1800s, a minus the 1900s, and a letter from A onwards the 2000s, which is why losing it can put a birth date a hundred years out on a US form.
DHCTranslations charges $54 for a document up to 400 words, then $0.12 per word into English or $0.14 from English into Finnish. Statement and PDF are included in the figure quoted.
A check character, computed from the whole code against a table of thirty-one symbols that leaves out the letters most easily confused with digits. It is copied as printed, never recalculated, because a value worked out afresh would no longer match the register.
Yes, in the running number inside it, so the document states sex twice: once in the code and once in words. The translation keeps both, and where they disagree the certificate says so rather than choosing one.
No. The country is officially bilingual and both printings come from the same register, so the facts and the English are identical; only the headings change. The translation states which language the sheet used.
For older generations the parish record, or a register extract drawn from it, is the record that exists. It is translated as it stands, with the parish and the volume named, which is what lets a reader place the entry.
USCIS requires the text in English and a statement from the translator, both supplied with every order. Send the sheet as it printed, with the identity code and any stamp left intact.
The matriculation certificate and the transcript are translated subject by subject, with the Finnish scale noted where the institution used it, so the evaluator can place the grades without guessing.
Yes. DHCTranslations charges $0.14 per word from English into Finnish, written by a native speaker rather than adapted from Estonian or Swedish.
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