Certified Portuguese articles of incorporation translation for USCIS.

Articles of incorporations issued by Portuguese-speaking jurisdictions are among the most-translated civil documents in US uscis filings. Articles of incorporation — and the closely-related commercial registry extracts, عقد التأسيس, شرکت‌نامه, ticaret sicil gazetesi — establish a company's legal existence. Verdacert translates them for E-2 treaty-investor and L-1A intracompany-transferee petitions, EB-5 regional-center cases, and consular-processing evidence of business ownership. We also produce updated commercial-registry extracts as add-on translations when the underlying articles haven't changed.

Portuguese is the official language of Brazil, Portugal, and six African and Asian states. Verdacert translates Brazilian civil status certidões, RG and CPF records, academic histórico escolar transcripts, and Portuguese cartório-issued certificates — with reviewers calibrated to the documentary conventions of each Lusophone jurisdiction. Verdacert's reviewer pool covers Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, African Portuguese, and other regional variants, with country-specific document conventions from Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, and beyond.

Brazilian civil records (certidões de nascimento, casamento, óbito) are issued by cartórios de registro civil and follow a registration-book format with margin annotations (averbações) that record subsequent changes — Verdacert preserves these because they are essential to USCIS status verification. Brazilian and European Portuguese diverged orthographically before 1990 and partially reconverged after the Acordo Ortográfico; the certified translation notes the source variant. Dates use the day-month-year order and the Gregorian calendar.

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 articles of incorporation translations specifically, our reviewers focus on capital denomination in local currency with subsequent share-value changes and translations of business-purpose statements written in flowery legal phrasing, 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.