Vietnamese Asylum Document Translation to English

Certified Vietnamese to English translation for asylum

To use a Vietnamese document in your asylum case, the Home Office or tribunal needs a certified English translation. This is a complete translation with a signed statement from the translator that it is accurate.

GOV.UK's guidance on certifying a document (opens in a new tab) asks the translator to confirm it is a "true and accurate translation of the original document", and to add the date and their full name and contact details. Our Vietnamese to English certified translation UK service includes:

1. A signed certificate of accuracy.
2. The translator's full name, contact details and credentials (we are members of the ITI, CIOL and ATC).
3. The date of translation.
4. Names shown in the original Vietnamese spelling and in the English form used on your Home Office papers.
5. Descriptions of red seals, signatures, fingerprints and handwritten notes.

Sample

Certified translation

Marriage certificate (giay chung nhan ket hon), Vietnam

Vietnamese → English

Husband's name

redacted

Wife's name

redacted

Date of registration

redacted

Place of registration

redacted commune, redacted province

Certificate number

redacted

Issuing authority

People's Committee of redacted commune

Registrar

redacted

• [Red round seal, partly illegible]
• [Signature of the registrar]
• [Handwritten: registration book number, translated as written]

Translator's statement

I confirm that this is a true and accurate translation of the original document.

Date

DD/MM/YYYY

Translator

Full name

Signature

The caseworker or judge decides how much weight to give your documents. We cannot promise a result, but we make the translation accurate, complete and certified to meet the Home Office's published requirements.

Vietnamese documents we translate

We translate official records and personal evidence from Vietnam, including:

• Identity: older ID cards, citizen identity cards and cards issued under Vietnam's Law on Identification (in force since July 2024), passports and confirmation letters from local police.
• Civil records: birth certificates (giấy khai sinh), marriage certificates and death certificates.
• Residence records: older household registration books (sổ hộ khẩu), which stopped being valid after 31 December 2022, and residence confirmations.
• Police and court papers: summons, arrest decisions, court judgments and prison release papers.
• Messages and debts: chats, loan papers and messages from people who arranged travel.
• Medical records: hospital records and injury reports.

For identity papers in all languages, see ID card translation for asylum. Summons, arrest decisions and police statements are explained on our police report translation for asylum page. Chat messages and voice notes are covered by our service for translating WhatsApp evidence for asylum.

Vietnamese script and dialects

Latin letters with tone marks

Vietnamese is written in the Latin alphabet, known as chữ Quốc ngữ. It adds many accent marks. Some show vowel sounds and others show the tone of each word. Changing one mark changes the meaning, and often the name. "Nguyễn" loses its marks and becomes "Nguyen" in most English systems.

We keep the original spelling with its marks in the translation and give the form used in your passport or Home Office file. This helps caseworkers see that names on different documents belong to the same person.

Name order

Vietnamese names start with the family name, then a middle name, then the given name. For example, in "Trần Văn Nam", Trần is the family name. The Home Office may record names in a different order. We follow your Home Office papers and explain the order if it could cause confusion.

Northern, central and southern Vietnamese

The main dialects are northern (around Hanoi), central (around Huế) and southern (around Ho Chi Minh City). They differ in sounds and some words. Official documents use the standard written form, but letters, statements and voice messages often show regional words. Our translators know all three.

Documents from Vietnam in Vietnamese

Most Vietnamese official documents carry a red round seal and a signature, often with a title such as chairman of the commune People's Committee. We translate the seal text and the official's title in full, because they show which office issued the document.

Official documents use Gregorian dates. Family papers and some religious documents may give dates in the lunar calendar. Where a lunar date appears, we show it and the matching Gregorian date.

For a wider guide to documents from Vietnam, read our page on vietnam document translation for asylum. If you need birth records for age or family evidence, see birth certificate translation for asylum.

English to Vietnamese: Home Office letters in your language

Home Office decisions are long and use legal English. An English to Vietnamese Home Office letter translation lets you read every reason in your own language.

We translate refusal letters, interview records, tribunal decisions and letters from your solicitor. Find out more on our Home Office refusal letter translation page.

If you are refused and you are in the UK, you usually have 14 days to appeal. Please speak to a solicitor or an adviser regulated by the Immigration Advice Authority (IAA) quickly. We are translators and do not give legal advice.

Our Vietnamese translators

Our Vietnamese translators are native speakers who know the terms used by Vietnamese police, courts and local People's Committees. They understand northern, central and southern speech. Their credentials appear on each certificate, and we never use machine translation for certified work.

When solicitors need a Vietnamese translator UK asylum bundles can rely on, we keep names, tone marks and dates the same across every document. A second linguist checks each translation. Uploads are encrypted, handled under UK GDPR and deleted after delivery.

Vietnamese translation price and delivery time

We quote per page, depending on length, handwriting and the condition of the copy.

Prices shown are starting prices and include VAT. We confirm your exact price in a written quote before any work starts.

You receive a signed PDF by email. For deadlines, see our urgent asylum document translation service. Ask for a fixed Vietnamese translation quote.