Icelandic Translation Services
DHCTranslations translates Icelandic documents in the US, and the form field with no answer is the maiden name: an Icelandic woman keeps her own patronymic through marriage, so her name before the wedding and after it are identical and the certificate records no change to explain. A document costs $54, statement and PDF included.
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Icelandic documents we translate for US files
Birth certificate
The registry certificate, with the child's patronymic and the national number as printed.
Marriage certificate
The marriage record, with both parties keeping the names they were born with.
Divorce certificate
The divorce record, with the date the marriage was dissolved and the magistrate named.
National Registry extract
The extract keyed to the national number, with the household and the codes beside it.
Criminal record
The certificate from the magistrate, with its reference and the period it covers.
Passports and identity documents
A passport page or identity document, with the names and the number as printed.
Diploma
The diploma, with the qualification, the institution and the year of conferral.
Academic transcript
The record of study, course by course, with the grades and the credits awarded.
Medical records
Clinic letters and hospital notes, with an Icelandic diagnosis written out in full.
Court documents
A judgment or a court order, with the case number and the parties as named in it.
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What a certified Icelandic 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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Certified PDF, often the same day when ordered before 4pm ET, with printed copies available on request.
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- Layout, stamps and seals mirrored
- Certification wording the receiving body asks for
What a certified Icelandic translation is checked for
A household with four different second names and no maiden name to enter is a form-filling problem before it is a translation problem, and the certification answers it on the page.
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.
- Each second name is explained: the translation identifies it as a patronymic naming the parent, so a reader can see that a mother and her son are described correctly rather than inconsistently.
- The national number leads: the ten-digit number is reproduced exactly and treated as the identifier that ties the file together, since the spelling of the name may legitimately differ between papers.
- 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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Nothing on the certificate changes at the wedding
An Icelandic second name states whose child a person is, so it belongs to that person alone: a husband and wife keep the two they were born with, and their children carry two more that match neither. A marriage certificate therefore shows three or four different second names and no record of a change, because there was no change to record.
Birth certificate
- On the Icelandic document
- fæðingarvottorð
- Issued by
- the National Registry
Marriage certificate
- On the Icelandic document
- hjúskaparvottorð
- Issued by
- the district magistrate
Divorce certificate
- On the Icelandic document
- skilnaðarvottorð
- Issued by
- the district magistrate
Criminal record
- On the Icelandic document
- sakavottorð
- Issued by
- the district magistrate
National Registry extract
- On the Icelandic document
- vottorð úr þjóðskrá
- Issued by
- the National Registry
Diploma
- On the Icelandic document
- diplóma
- Issued by
- the institution that awarded it
Three features of an Icelandic file need explaining in the US. The second name is a patronymic, not a family name, and it differs between a parent and a child and between a brother and a sister, so no shared surname appears in a household. Two letters in it have no English equivalent at all, and are commonly rendered as th or d in US documents, which gives one person two spellings. And the ten-digit national number is the key every record is matched against, so it is reproduced exactly while the name beside it may vary.
What our clients say
Rated 4.9/5 from 314 verified reviews for USCIS submissions, court filings and credential evaluations.
“The 0-to-10 marks were explained subject by subject, and the admissions office accepted the translation without a conversion request.”
Helga K.
“The criminal record certificate was short, but the reference and issue date mattered, and both came through exactly as printed.”
Björn A.
“The extract and the birth certificate described the same event, and the translator noted that rather than treating them as two separate documents.”
Sigrún J.
The certification, the price and the turnaround are the same for Icelandic documents sent from anywhere in the United States. Start with the page that matches what you need:
Frequently asked questions
DHCTranslations translates Icelandic documents in the US, covering registry certificates, National Registry extracts, criminal record certificates, diplomas and court papers, with a signed statement on each order.
There is nothing to enter, because an Icelandic woman keeps the name she was born with through marriage. Her name on the marriage certificate is the same before and after, and the certification states that rather than leaving a blank.
DHCTranslations charges $54 for a document up to 400 words, then $0.12 per word into English or $0.14 from English into Icelandic, with the statement and PDF included.
Because it names his father rather than a family, and a daughter's names her father too with a different ending. The translation identifies each as a patronymic so the difference reads as a description rather than an error.
Two Icelandic letters have no English equivalent and are commonly written as th or d in US documents, which gives one person two spellings. Both are kept as they appear on their own paper, and the national number is the identifier that ties them together.
It is the national identifier every Icelandic record is matched against, beginning with the date of birth. It is reproduced exactly, since a name may vary between papers but this number does not.
A translation is accepted when the text is complete and a translator has signed for it, and both are supplied with the order. Send the certificate as issued, with the registry reference visible.
The diploma is translated with the qualification, the institution and the year, and the transcript adds the courses, the grades and the credits, which lets an evaluator place the award.
Yes. Company records, minutes and certificates are translated with the registry number and the signatories named, since a corporate filing is read for who signed as much as for what it says.
Yes. DHCTranslations charges $0.14 per word from English into Icelandic, written by a native speaker rather than adapted from a Scandinavian language.
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