Corpus Localization provides certified Tagalog and Filipino-to-English written document translation for Philippine civil, police, court, academic, identity, and personal records. Eligible clear standard files with a known page count start at $19.99 per page. Qualifying files receive standard 24-hour digital delivery after the order is confirmed, and each completed certified translation includes a signed Certificate of Accuracy.
Use Start Your Order for a complete, readable Tagalog or Filipino-to-English file with a known page count and no unresolved recipient instructions. Choose Tagalog as the source language at checkout.
Use Get a Quote for handwriting, faint or cropped scans, mixed languages, dense tables, unusual layouts, connected documents, uncertain page counts, back-page annotations, or special instructions from the receiving organization.
Corpus Localization is an ATA Corporate Member. Membership identifies the company’s professional association; it does not make the ATA the reviewer or endorser of a specific translation.
Corpus translates legible, in-scope Philippine records into English and certifies the completed translation. Language, scan quality, layout, and recipient instructions determine the correct route.
Civil and family records may include a Certificate of Live Birth, Certificate of Marriage, Certificate of Death, CENOMAR or Advisory on Marriages, civil-registry annotations, and records from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), an older National Statistics Office (NSO) copy, or a Local Civil Registrar (LCR). See the separate guides for birth certificate translation, marriage certificate translation, and death certificate translation.
Police and legal records may include NBI Clearance, court orders, affidavits or sworn statements, and a written power of attorney. See the police-clearance translation guide for the broader category.
Academic files may include diplomas, Transcript of Records, school records, and licenses. Requirements differ among schools and evaluators, so check the academic translation service. Other files may include passport or identity pages, barangay certificates, medical records, and employment records.
Philippine record names, issuer labels, security paper, annotations, and language combinations vary. Corpus translates the supplied written content. It does not determine whether the record is genuine or obtain a replacement from an issuing office.
Filipino is the Philippines’ national language and is official alongside English; Filipino is based on Tagalog. Buyers may therefore use either label for Tagalog-based document content.
The labels do not cover every Philippine language. A record may contain English, Tagalog/Filipino, Spanish, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Kapampangan, Waray, or another language. Country of issue does not identify the source language.
Check the actual text before ordering. A document that is already fully in English may not need translation, so confirm what the receiving organization requests. If the record contains Tagalog/Filipino plus another language, submit the complete file for quote review so the full language scope can be identified. Corpus’s language directory lists the broader written translation options without treating regional languages as Tagalog.
The issuer and title printed on the record should control its description. PSA maintains central Philippine civil records; older copies can display NSO branding, while LCR forms and certified copies can look different from PSA-issued versions.
Official PSA materials identify birth, marriage, death, and Certificate of No Marriage records. CENOMAR means Certificate of No Marriage Record. An Advisory on Marriages is related, but neither is a universal requirement for every spouse, fiancé, visa, or court matter. The recipient chooses the required record and version.
NBI Clearance is a Philippine police-clearance record. Its names, maiden names, aliases, and AKA entries are identity data. They must be carried into the translation as the source supports them, not silently standardized.
A legible seal, serial number, QR label, signature, or stamp can be represented in the translation. That does not authenticate the source. If the record is fully in English, ask the recipient whether it wants a translation before ordering.
Modern Tagalog and Filipino normally use the Filipino Latin alphabet. Ordinary text therefore calls for translation plus exact transcription of source details, not page-wide romanization from a non-Latin script.
Meaningful source characters and diacritics must remain visible, including Ñ and ñ. Names require the same care. Corpus preserves supported name particles, spacing, punctuation, initials, suffixes, hyphens, maiden names, married names, aliases, AKA entries, and the relationship among given, middle, and family-name fields.
A passport spelling may guide consistency when it clearly belongs to the same person and the source supports that identity. It cannot override the source. Corpus does not expand initials, invent names, reverse fields, or “correct” a record without evidence. Conflicts require clarification.
Baybayin, historical or non-Latin material, handwriting, older Spanish content, and a second Philippine language are not routine Tagalog transliteration. Send those files through the quote route so the language, legibility, and page scope can be reviewed before work begins.
Each fact stays attached to its source label. An event date, registration date, issue date, annotation date, expiration date, and court-order date cannot be merged or substituted for one another.
Numeric dates are rendered unambiguously when the source supports the reading. An unclear month-day or day-month order is not guessed. Registry, reference, case, license, and page numbers, barcode or QR labels, and document identifiers are preserved.
Legible seals, stamps, marginal notes, handwritten endorsements, corrections, and back-page entries are translated or labelled in place. Truly unreadable content is marked with the production notation [ILLEGIBLE]; no missing character, number, or name is invented. Because annotations can change civil status or connect one page to another, upload the whole record rather than only the front page or the section that appears relevant.
Upload every relevant page in order, including backs, attachments, continuation sheets, annotations, stamps, seals, signatures, and meaningful blank pages. A complete scan preserves names, aliases, page numbers, and cross-references.
Capture all four page edges in sharp focus with even lighting. Use color when ink, stamps, paper, or annotations need to be distinguished. Avoid glare, shadows, fingers, filters, perspective distortion, and screenshots that cut off a header, footer, seal, or page edge.
Keep connected records together. Faint copies, handwriting, security patterns, dense forms, mixed languages, unusual layouts, uncertain page counts, and cropped files need quote review. A readable source helps Corpus confirm whether standard certified translation pricing applies.
The receiving organization decides which source record, version, pages, certification format, originals or copies, and supporting steps it requires. It also makes the final acceptance and case-outcome decision.
For a foreign-language document submitted to USCIS, the general federal rule calls for a full English translation and a translator certification stating that the translation is complete and accurate and that the translator is competent to translate. Corpus can prepare a certified written translation for that purpose when the supplied document and scope qualify. Review the USCIS translation service for the submission-focused process.
Other recipients may include U.S. consular offices, courts and counsel, schools, credential evaluators, licensing bodies, employers, banks, insurers, DMVs, and state agencies. Their rules can differ. Confirm the current requirement with the recipient before ordering. Corpus’s role is limited to certified written document translation; the receiving organization decides its own requirements and outcome.
Start an order when the file is a clear, complete, readable Tagalog or Filipino-to-English standard document, the page count is known, and no recipient instruction remains unresolved. Eligible files start at $19.99 per page and qualify for the standard product. Standard 24-hour digital delivery applies to qualifying files after order confirmation.
Request a quote when the file includes another language, handwriting, faint text, cropped edges, dense forms or tables, older or unusual material, connected documents, back-page annotations that affect scope, an uncertain page count, a target language other than English, or recipient-specific instructions. Complex packets may require more time after review.
The order and quote paths are different intake choices, not different quality levels. Both begin with the supplied document. Choose the path that gives Corpus enough information to confirm the full written translation scope before work starts.
Eligible clear standard Tagalog or Filipino-to-English files start at $19.99 per page. Handwriting, mixed languages, dense layouts, connected records, uncertain page counts, or recipient-specific instructions require quote review before price and scope are confirmed.
Standard 24-hour digital delivery applies to qualifying clear files after the order is confirmed. Complex, unclear, mixed-language, handwritten, or multi-document packets may need additional time after Corpus reviews the complete upload.
Yes. Corpus can review and translate legible, in-scope Tagalog or Filipino content from Philippine birth and marriage records, including relevant annotations and back pages. Check the document’s actual language and confirm which record version and certification the recipient requires.
Corpus can review and translate legible, in-scope Tagalog or Filipino content in a CENOMAR or NBI Clearance. Not every record needs translation or fits standard ordering, so use the quote route for mixed languages, aliases, annotations, dense layouts, or unclear scans.
Filipino is the national language of the Philippines and is Tagalog-based, so buyers often use both labels for this service. Other Philippine languages are not automatically Tagalog; submit mixed-language or uncertain records for quote review.
Corpus preserves source-supported names, initials, particles, suffixes, maiden names, aliases, and AKA entries. A passport spelling may guide consistency only when it belongs to the same supported identity; it cannot replace conflicting source facts.
Upload every relevant page in order, including backs, attachments, annotations, stamps, seals, signatures, and connected records. Show all four edges in sharp focus, use even lighting, and avoid crops, glare, shadows, filters, or missing headers and footers.
Start an order for a clear, complete Tagalog or Filipino-to-English standard file with a known page count and no unresolved recipient instruction. Request a quote for mixed, unclear, handwritten, dense, unusual, connected, uncertain-page-count, non-English-target, or recipient-specific files.
Tagalog to English certified translation is a complete English rendering of Philippine PSA civil records plus the translator’s signed certification that the translation is complete and accurate and that the translator is competent to translate from Tagalog into English. That pairing is what 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) requires. Corpus Localization prepares that certified packet for USCIS purposes at $19.99/page for eligible standard documents, as an ATA corporate member (#M-189351).
