Passport translation

[Lex2019]

Please reply only those who have gone through the interview stage and had to submit their passport scans:
1. If your passport had any Schengen state stamps. Were they required to be translated? E.g. Munich in German is Munchen. Easy enough, but according to the rules needs to be translated too. Does it need to be translated?
2. Those of you who had a stamp from China where a part of it is in Chinese and the other part is in English. Do those require a translation?
3. Those of you had partially illegible stamps how they were translated?
4. Did you do a translation by a certified translator? If so did you do translations with multiple certified translators or with a multi-lingual translation agency? If so did they include affidavit of every translator from each language pair?
Once again please reply only those who have gone through the interview and witnessed the requirements or otherwise are deep in the topic and have verified the same with IRCC. No opinions. Feel free to PM if you feel uncomfortable sharing in the thread.
The only reason for asking is that I've got well over 100 stamps in my passport and if I had to translate all of the stamps it would take a lot of time as well as $$
Thanks!

 

[Lex2019]

And yes, I can and will call them. It's just the fact that I'm rammed through the end of the week and wasting these 2 days will leave too little time for translations, hence the ask

 

[kimi_pat]

Hi @Lex2019

Just wondering what you did regarding the translation of stamps?

It would be appreciated if you can share some updates since my expired passport has a few stamps from South East Asia and I am going to apply for citizenship soon, so would like to know some update from you. Thank you so much!

Cheers!

 

[Lex2019]

Hi @Lex2019

Just wondering what you did regarding the translation of stamps?

It would be appreciated if you can share some updates since my expired passport has a few stamps from South East Asia and I am going to apply for citizenship soon, so would like to know some update from you. Thank you so much!

Cheers!

Depending on the number of stamps and your budget you might i) send all of them to a translation agency (fast, but costly) or ii) browse ATIO (if you are in ON) website and contact individual translators and have your stamps translated this way. In either case I'd call IRCC first and go through your stamps to see which ones need translation and which ones don't in case if doubt.
Hope it helps

 

[smash1984]

Please reply only those who have gone through the interview stage and had to submit their passport scans:
1. If your passport had any Schengen state stamps. Were they required to be translated? E.g. Munich in German is Munchen. Easy enough, but according to the rules needs to be translated too. Does it need to be translated?
2. Those of you who had a stamp from China where a part of it is in Chinese and the other part is in English. Do those require a translation?
3. Those of you had partially illegible stamps how they were translated?
4. Did you do a translation by a certified translator? If so did you do translations with multiple certified translators or with a multi-lingual translation agency? If so did they include affidavit of every translator from each language pair?
Once again please reply only those who have gone through the interview and witnessed the requirements or otherwise are deep in the topic and have verified the same with IRCC. No opinions. Feel free to PM if you feel uncomfortable sharing in the thread.
The only reason for asking is that I've got well over 100 stamps in my passport and if I had to translate all of the stamps it would take a lot of time as well as $$
Thanks!

Hi, what did you find out about answer to question 2? If stamps are partially in English with all the entry and exit information and with some other info like country name and city in Arabic as well (like GCC countries), does one have to get them translated?

 

[chs]

I would err on the side of caution and just get anything not in French or English translated; they're pretty clear on their requirements. The last thing you want is to get part way through the process and then things get put on hold because there's a translation issue or something isn't in French or English.

 

[smash1984]

ok, thank you

 

[zhaopeiplane]

Please reply only those who have gone through the interview stage and had to submit their passport scans:
1. If your passport had any Schengen state stamps. Were they required to be translated? E.g. Munich in German is Munchen. Easy enough, but according to the rules needs to be translated too. Does it need to be translated?
2. Those of you who had a stamp from China where a part of it is in Chinese and the other part is in English. Do those require a translation?
3. Those of you had partially illegible stamps how they were translated?
4. Did you do a translation by a certified translator? If so did you do translations with multiple certified translators or with a multi-lingual translation agency? If so did they include affidavit of every translator from each language pair?
Once again please reply only those who have gone through the interview and witnessed the requirements or otherwise are deep in the topic and have verified the same with IRCC. No opinions. Feel free to PM if you feel uncomfortable sharing in the thread.
The only reason for asking is that I've got well over 100 stamps in my passport and if I had to translate all of the stamps it would take a lot of time as well as $$
Thanks!

Hello there, how did you do your Schengen stamps and China stamps? I am in the same situation, a few schengen visas and lots of stamps. Also, have you translated your visas? Thanks!