Certified Portuguese professional license translation for Apostille.
Native-speaker review on every translation. Signed certification statement. Delivered as a single PDF in as little as 14 hours.
A process you can hand to USCIS without rereading the rules.
Upload, we translate, you submit. Every step is bounded by a real deadline and a named reviewer.
Upload your document
Drag & drop a PDF, or photograph the original with your phone. We accept JPG, PNG, HEIC, PDF, and TIFF up to 25 MB.
We translate & certify
Our translation engine produces a first draft. A vetted native-speaker reviewer with regional expertise edits and signs the certification before release.
Download your USCIS-ready file
You receive a single PDF: original, translation, and the signed certification statement that meets 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3). Notarization and hard copies on request.
Portuguese professional licenses submitted for apostille — what reviewers look for, and what we attach.
Professional licenses issued by Portuguese-speaking jurisdictions are among the most-translated civil documents in US apostille filings. Professional licenses — medical, legal, engineering, pharmacy, teaching, accounting — issued by foreign professional bodies require certified English translation for H-1B, EB-2 / EB-3, and National Interest Waiver petitions, and for state-board licensure in the US. Verdacert handles physician licenses from the Egyptian Medical Syndicate, نظام پزشکی, Pakistani PMDC, Turkish TTB, and Lebanese OPL; bar-association licenses from MENA-region bar councils; and engineer licenses from national engineering syndicates.
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.
Verdacert coordinates apostille filing through the relevant US Secretary of State for documents being used abroad. Pricing includes our service fee plus state pass-through fees (which vary by state).
For professional license translations specifically, our reviewers focus on specialty taxonomy mapping (e.g., تخصص عام family-medicine equivalents) and continuing-education credit reporting that varies by issuing body, 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.
Every field on a portuguese professional license, transcribed without omission.
Professional licenses — medical, legal, engineering, pharmacy, teaching, accounting — issued by foreign professional bodies require certified English translation for H-1B, EB-2 / EB-3, and National Interest Waiver petitions, and for state-board licensure in the US. Verdacert handles physician licenses from the Egyptian Medical Syndicate, نظام پزشکی, Pakistani PMDC, Turkish TTB, and Lebanese OPL; bar-association licenses from MENA-region bar councils; and engineer licenses from national engineering syndicates.
Fields the translation will include
- Licensee full name
- Date of birth and national ID
- Profession and specialization
- License or registration number
- Issuing professional body
- Date of initial registration
- Renewal history and current validity
- Scope of practice
- Disciplinary status (where shown)
Where reviewers earn their fee
- Specialty taxonomy mapping (e.g., تخصص عام family-medicine equivalents)
- Continuing-education credit reporting that varies by issuing body
- Licenses that combine multiple specializations on a single card
- Older paper licenses without machine-readable identifiers
- Conditional or restricted licenses requiring careful reviewer notes
What Apostille actually requires of a translation.
Verdacert coordinates apostille filing through the relevant US Secretary of State for documents being used abroad. Pricing includes our service fee plus state pass-through fees (which vary by state).
Checklist for Apostille acceptance
- Source document must be notarized first (we handle this)
- Translation accompanies the apostilled original
- Coordination with the state-level apostille office
Where this translation is typically submitted
- Marriage abroad with US-issued underlying documents
- Studying abroad with US transcripts
- Property purchase abroad with US-issued evidence
Used on tens of thousands of filings since 2023.
Verdacert is the specialist provider US immigration attorneys reach for when portuguese documents need to be accepted on the first read.
Common questions about portuguese professional license translation.
If your question isn't here, our support team replies within an hour — even outside business hours.
Related document types and languages
Browse other certified translations in this specialty.
Ready to start? Upload your document for an instant quote.
Standard delivers in 48 hours; Express in 24; Rush in 14. USCIS-accepted, or your money back.