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Dominican actas are issued by the Junta Central Electoral, which is the civil registry authority as well as the electoral body — a detail that confuses translators unfamiliar with the country and produces English versions naming the wrong kind of office. The acta inextensa and the abbreviated form disclose different information, and US institutions generally want the full version.

West African documents raise a separate issue: birth attestations and judgments supplétifs issued years after the fact are common where an original registration was never made. These are legitimate documents, but they are court judgments rather than registry extracts, and the translation has to say so clearly.

Fordham, Lehman College and Bronx Community College generate the transcript work.

If your birth was registered years after it happened, or established by a court rather than a registrar, the document you hold says so on its face. Translating it as a plain birth certificate hides that, and an adjudicator who spots the discrepancy has to treat the whole file with more suspicion.

The correct approach is to translate the instrument accurately, including its title and the authority that issued it.