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[Veronika158]

Hey everyone!
If you're from the country that does not speak English officially, do you NEED to translate your passport?

 

[frange]

Hey everyone!
If you're from the country that does not speak English officially, do you NEED to translate your passport?

Google.com/ ircc.gc.ca.

 

[armoured]

Hey everyone!
If you're from the country that does not speak English officially, do you NEED to translate your passport?

Generally international passports (meaning valid for international travel, not some domestic document) are issued according to UN standards, and will have at minimum English or French prominently on the tombstone page. THAT page almost never needs to be translated.

IF you are required to submit other pages of passport, you MAY (probably do) need to translate other pages if info is not in English or French and that can include stamps and visas from other countries. (Full-size visas that have info in English or French and basically also look like tombstone pages - probably not if the languages are translations of English or French [or vice versa.] I think this is most Schengen visas, for example).

IRCC may or may not be picky about this depending on context - if a stamp is just a name of a port and dates in a latin alphabet language (and maybe cyrillic), they probably will let it slide. In my epxerience. Stamps that have both names and numbers only in Arabic or hieroglyphic languages (Chinese for example) - probably not. I don't know about experience with other alphabets (the ones I have seen/had duplicated info in Latin alphabets and used 'European' style digits) but would assume as with eg Arabic.

 

[Veronika158]

Generally international passports (meaning valid for international travel, not some domestic document) are issued according to UN standards, and will have at minimum English or French prominently on the tombstone page. THAT page almost never needs to be translated.

IF you are required to submit other pages of passport, you MAY (probably do) need to translate other pages if info is not in English or French and that can include stamps and visas from other countries. (Full-size visas that have info in English or French and basically also look like tombstone pages - probably not if the languages are translations of English or French [or vice versa.] I think this is most Schengen visas, for example).

IRCC may or may not be picky about this depending on context - if a stamp is just a name of a port and dates in a latin alphabet language (and maybe cyrillic), they probably will let it slide. In my epxerience. Stamps that have both names and numbers only in Arabic or hieroglyphic languages (Chinese for example) - probably not. I don't know about experience with other alphabets (the ones I have seen/had duplicated info in Latin alphabets and used 'European' style digits) but would assume as with eg Arabic.

Thank you so much!!!! That definitely helped me

 

[armoured]

Thank you so much!!!! That definitely helped me

I urge though - read the instructions. And note that if IRCC decides they want something translated - you may face a delay in processing as a result, or in some cases even applications being sent back.

That said - our own experience was that they gave us a bit of leeway (.e. we did not get all stamps translated).

 

[Veronika158]

I urge though - read the instructions. And note that if IRCC decides they want something translated - you may face a delay in processing as a result, or in some cases even applications being sent back.

That said - our own experience was that they gave us a bit of leeway (.e. we did not get all stamps translated).

Understood. It's just so rare to find some info about a similar situation but with a European passport, where English is not the 1st language.

 

[armoured]

Understood. It's just so rare to find some info about a similar situation but with a European passport, where English is not the 1st language.

Look at the tombstone page - it will definitely have either english or french in addition to whatever the national language is. (Unless it's a really old passport). I think 100% any passport with the biometric symbol, for example, will have english or french.

 

[Veronika158]

Look at the tombstone page - it will definitely have either english or french in addition to whatever the national language is. (Unless it's a really old passport). I think 100% any passport with the biometric symbol, for example, will have english or french.

Yeah, it does have but I've searching through so many sources, posts, website and it's just tough to process so much information. Everyone is scared to get a rejection, so I was trying to gather as much as possible.