Certified Polish marriage nullity decree translation for USCIS.

Marriage nullity decrees issued by Polish-speaking jurisdictions are among the most-translated civil documents in US uscis filings. Marriage nullity decrees — Catholic Sacred Rota rulings, Maronite tribunal decisions كتاب البطلان, Coptic Orthodox annulment decrees, Greek Orthodox ακυρωτική απόφαση — are religious-tribunal rulings that a sacramental marriage was never canonically valid. USCIS does not treat a religious nullity as a civil divorce, but K-1 fiancé(e) visa applicants whose prior religious marriage was annulled often file the nullity decree alongside the civil divorce to explain the chronology and any name-change paper trail.

Polish is the official language of Poland and the source language for civil status records issued by the Urząd Stanu Cywilnego (USC), academic transcripts from Polish universities, and court documents from Polish family and civil courts. Verdacert translates Polish odpis aktu urodzenia, odpis aktu małżeństwa, court rulings, and academic credentials for US immigration, university, and credential-evaluation filings. Verdacert's reviewer pool covers Modern Standard Polish, with country-specific document conventions from Poland.

Polish civil records are issued by the Urząd Stanu Cywilnego (Civil Registry Office) as either an abridged extract (odpis skrócony) or a full extract (odpis zupełny); the full extract preserves historical annotations USCIS adjudicators may need and is recommended for status verification. Polish uses a Latin-based alphabet with diacritics (ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ź, ż); names retain their diacritics in the certified translation, with USCIS-form spellings noted parenthetically where required. Surnames carry gender suffixes (-ski/-ska, -cki/-cka); Verdacert preserves the source-document spelling exactly.

USCIS requires that any non-English document submitted in support of an immigration petition be accompanied by a full English translation, plus a signed statement from a competent translator attesting that the translation is complete and accurate. Verdacert's certification statement is drafted to meet this requirement exactly. The applicable standard is 8 CFR § 103.2(b)(3).

For marriage nullity decree translations specifically, our reviewers focus on tribunal latin and greek terminology with no exact english equivalent (vetitum, defectus formae, dispensatio) and multi-stage tribunal proceedings (first instance, ratification, appellate review), among other patterns. The AI draft is calibrated to surface uncertainty rather than guess, so the reviewer always knows where to spend their attention.

Every translation we deliver includes a signed certification statement, a faithful transcription of every field on the source, descriptions of all seals and stamps, and explicit [illegible] markers anywhere the source is unreadable rather than a guess. The reviewer signs the certification under their own name.