Certified Tagalog (Filipino) nikah marriage contract translation for Universities.

Nikah marriage contracts issued by Tagalog (Filipino)-speaking jurisdictions are among the most-translated civil documents in US universities filings. Nikah marriage contracts — عقد الزواج, عقد النكاح, کابین‌نامه — are the religious-law marriage instruments used across the Muslim world, sometimes alongside and sometimes in place of a civil marriage certificate. USCIS accepts a certified translation of the nikah contract for I-130 spouse petitions and K-1 / K-3 visa cases from jurisdictions where the religious marriage is the primary or only record (notably Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, and parts of Pakistan).

Tagalog — codified as Filipino — is the national language of the Philippines and a primary source language for US family-based immigration, K-1 fiancé, IR-1 spouse, and consular processing filings from Manila. Verdacert translates Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) civil registry certificates, Court of Appeals annulment decrees, NBI clearances, and academic transcripts for use in US immigration and credential-evaluation contexts. Verdacert's reviewer pool covers Manila Tagalog, Filipino, Other Philippine languages on regional documents, with country-specific document conventions from Philippines.

Most Philippine civil documents are issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA, formerly NSO) and are produced in English on PSA security paper; supporting documents from local civil registrars may be in Tagalog or another Philippine language. Verdacert reconciles bilingual source documents into a single English certified translation and notes the PSA reference number on the certification. Annulment and nullity decrees follow Philippine family law conventions distinct from US divorce; the translation includes the case caption, decision date, and finality annotation that USCIS and US courts rely on.

US universities and graduate programs require certified English translations of foreign transcripts and diplomas. Verdacert produces WES-compatible formatting on request and provides reviewer notes for grade-scale conversion.

For nikah marriage contract translations specifically, our reviewers focus on mahr denominated in gold dinars, dirhams, or named property — preserved with reviewer-note conversion and wakalah (representation) clauses where the bride was not physically present, 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.