Before a death-certificate translation, check the intended use.

Who will receive it

Tell me who will receive the translation and which application it supports. My page on government document translation explains why I ask about the recipient and the service.

If the certificate supports an estate power of attorney, the Dubai Courts power of attorney ratification service lists a death certificate or a determination of heirs certificate among the supporting documents. My powers of attorney and wills translation page covers the power of attorney itself.

Languages

I translate death certificates between Arabic and English myself under my personal UAE MOJ registration, No. 688. You can check my registration.

For other language pairs, an MOJ-registered translator I know personally does the translation, and I stay your contact. I give you that translator’s name and registration number with the delivery. Their registration covers their work. No. 688 covers my own Arabic-English translations.

The complete record

Describe the certificate and what it is for before you share anything. Once I know the job, we agree how you will share the complete certificate with any attachments, so I can review the full text before I quote. Every page, including stamps, needs to be legible.

Matching names and dates

Check how names and dates appear on the certificate against the other records you plan to submit with it, such as passports. If you notice a difference, tell me when you describe the job so I can check the source wording.

I translate the details as the certificate records them.

Documents issued abroad

For that Dubai Courts service, a supporting document issued outside the UAE needs attestation by the issuing country’s foreign ministry, then the UAE Embassy in that country, then the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A supporting document that is not in Arabic needs a legal translation into Arabic. My guide to MOFA attestation and translation explains the attestation steps in more detail.

Who sees the certificate

Only I see the certificate, unless the job needs layout work by my admin team or a network translator for another language pair. My privacy policy explains how I store documents and when I delete them.

What I don’t do

My role is to translate the death certificate. I don’t give inheritance or immigration advice. Each court, authority or other recipient makes its own decision about the documents and translations it will use.