How to translate a PDF from English to Italian

Who needs English documents in Italian

Most people who search this are building a file for Italy. A US birth certificate, marriage certificate or divorce decree for an Italian citizenship application. A bank letter or lease for a residence permit. A medical report for a doctor in Milan, or an employment contract a relative in Sicily wants to read.

Italian offices work in Italian, so a document in English is translated before it counts. The San Francisco consulate says it plainly: documents written in English must be translated into Italian to be valid in Italy, and sometimes an apostille is needed as well[1].

How to translate an English PDF to Italian with LoreAI

1. Type your email at the top of this page. The 6-digit code we send opens LoreAI with Italian already chosen. Your first document is free, up to 3 pages and 3 MB.
2. Upload the record. A PDF from the county, a scan of the certified copy, or phone photos of each page in JPG or PNG. Include the apostille page.
3. Keep Italian as the target. English is detected automatically.
4. Download the Word file. Every field of the certificate comes back in Italian, in the order of the original, ready to print.

What a US birth certificate looks like in Italian

A long form birth certificate from a state vital records office comes back field by field. Names, file numbers and dates written in digits stay exactly as printed, and written dates and labels become Italian.

Certificate of Live Birth

Certificato di nascita

Name of child

Nome del figlio, with the name unchanged, as in Anthony Joseph Russo

Date of birth, June 22, 1994

Data di nascita, 22 giugno 1994

Place of birth, Kings County

Luogo di nascita, contea di Kings

Mother's maiden name

Cognome da nubile della madre

State file number

Numero di registrazione statale, every digit kept

Registrar's signature and seal

Kept in place at the foot of the page

Getting the translation certified by an Italian consulate

For a US document used in Italy, the apostille comes first. The Philadelphia consulate says it is obtained from the Secretary of State and must stay attached to the document[2]. The apostille itself does not need a translation[1].

• The Philadelphia consulate accepts self-produced translations if they are complete, accurate and typewritten[2].
• San Francisco wants the translation printed on single-sided sheets, not handwritten, and every word translated with the proper legal terms[1].
• San Francisco certifies translations by mail only, with the original document, a money order for the fee and a prepaid return envelope[1].
• If you apply for citizenship at the San Francisco consulate, its Citizenship Office certifies the translations at no extra charge. If you apply in Italy, a sworn translator at an Italian court certifies them[1].
• Diplomas and professional qualifications are not certified as translations. They go through a declaration of value instead[1].

LoreAI is not a certified or sworn translation service. Its Word file is the complete, typed Italian text that you or a translator finish and hand to the consulate for certification.

Italian citizenship by descent after the 2025 law

Recognition of citizenship iure sanguinis is now governed by Law 91/1992 as amended by Decree-Law 36/25, converted into Law 74/25[3]. The New York consulate lists who still qualifies, for example an applicant whose parent or grandparent holds or held only Italian citizenship[3]. For those who do, the US birth, marriage and death certificates of every descendant in line are submitted in long form, legalized and translated into Italian[3].

That is a stack of records, often scanned from old county books. Upload them together as one PDF and LoreAI returns one Italian Word file. The reverse direction, Italian records into English, is on translate an Italian document to English.

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