Danish Translation Services
DHCTranslations translates Danish documents in the US, and the detail that trips up a US file is a doubled letter: the same surname appears with two a's on a paper from 1965 and with the ringed letter today, and a form can only hold one of them. A document costs $54, statement and PDF included.
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Danish documents we translate for US files
Personal certificate
The printout from the national register, with the identity number, the address and the civil status.
Baptism certificate
The parish entry for the baptism, with the page number and the names given at the ceremony.
Marriage certificate
The marriage record, with the officiant, the witnesses and the date the register was altered.
Death certificate
The death record with the certifying doctor named, and the register entry that follows it.
Criminal record extract
The extract from the police, with the reference it carries and the purpose it was issued for.
Exam certificate
The upper-secondary leaving certificate, with each subject and the Danish scale explained.
University degree
The degree record with the institution, the field of study and the year it was awarded.
Grade transcript
A course-by-course transcript, with the credits and the seven-point scale noted where used.
Court papers
A judgment, a declaration or a power of attorney, with the case reference and the parties reproduced.
Medical records
Clinic letters, operation notes and vaccination entries, with a Danish diagnosis written out.
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What a certified Danish 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
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$0.12+
Per word after 400, into English
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What a certified Danish translation is checked for
A reader in the US can check neither the parish book nor the check digit, so the certificate has to state both: which spelling of the name it used, and that the number on the page is the number as issued.
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.
- One spelling, declared: the form used on the passport is followed, the older spelling on the document is shown beside it, and the certificate says the two name the same person rather than leaving a reader to wonder.
- The digits are left alone: the identity number is reproduced as printed, check digit included, and no arithmetic is done to it - a corrected number would no longer match the register a reader might query.
- 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 letter that was written twice
Danish has three letters English does not use, and one of them replaced a doubled a within living memory - so a name printed with two a's in an older record and with the ringed letter in a newer one is the same name, spelled two ways by two offices. A US form takes one, and the choice has to hold across a passport, a certificate and a filing.
Personal certificate
- On the Danish document
- personattest
- Issued by
- the municipal office, printed from the national register
Baptism certificate
- On the Danish document
- dåbsattest
- Issued by
- the parish that recorded the baptism
Marriage certificate
- On the Danish document
- vielsesattest
- Issued by
- the municipal office, or the church
Criminal record extract
- On the Danish document
- straffeattest
- Issued by
- the police
Death certificate
- On the Danish document
- dødsattest
- Issued by
- the doctor who certified it, and the municipal office
Exam certificate
- On the Danish document
- eksamensbevis
- Issued by
- the school that awarded it
Grade transcript
- On the Danish document
- karakterudskrift
- Issued by
- the school or the institution
Two things sit inside the Danish paperwork. The ten-digit identity number ends in a check digit, so a figure typed wrongly usually fails the arithmetic rather than passing unnoticed - which is why the number is copied and never repaired by hand. And a file assembled before the national register existed holds a page number from a parish book rather than a certificate, because that page was the record; an extract of it is what the archive issues today.
What our clients say
Rated 4.9/5 from 314 verified reviews for USCIS submissions, court filings and credential evaluations.
“My wife uses her birth surname on the certificate and her married name on the passport, and both were shown with the date of the change.”
Lars B.
“The 12-to--3 scale was explained step by step instead of being converted, and the university accepted it without a follow-up.”
Freja S.
“The attest gave my birth date and my parents' names, and the translator noted that Denmark has no separate birth certificate, which the caseworker had queried.”
Mette K.
The certification, the price and the turnaround are the same for Danish documents sent from anywhere in the United States. Start with the page that matches what you need:
Frequently asked questions
DHCTranslations handles Danish documents in the US, including register printouts, baptism entries and exam certificates, and each translation comes with a signed statement naming the translator.
Because the ringed letter replaced the doubled a in Danish spelling during the last century, and older records keep the form the office used at the time. Both spell the same name, and the translation follows the passport while showing the older form beside it.
DHCTranslations charges $54 for a document up to 400 words, then $0.12 per word into English or $0.14 from English into Danish. The statement and the PDF are inside that figure.
It checks the other nine, so a mistyped figure usually fails the arithmetic rather than slipping through. That is why the number is copied exactly as printed: a digit repaired by hand no longer matches the register a reader may query.
It is a different paper from the register printout, and for older applicants it may be the only one there is. Each is translated as the page reads, and neither is presented as the other.
Yes, because that page was the record when the birth or baptism happened, and the archive issues an extract of it today. The translation names the parish, the book and the page, which is what lets a reader trace it.
They come from within the Danish realm and may be printed in Danish, Greenlandic or Faroese. The translation states which language the page uses and which authority issued it, because a US reader will not know the office by name.
USCIS reads the full English text and a statement signed by the translator, both of which come with every order. Send the printout as it was issued, with the identity number and the issue date visible.
The exam certificate and the transcript are translated subject by subject, with the seven-point scale noted where the institution used it, so the evaluator can place the result without converting it themselves.
Yes. DHCTranslations charges $0.14 per word from English into Danish, written by a native speaker rather than adapted from Swedish or Norwegian.
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