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Q: Need my wife's birth certificate and no criminal record certificate notarized.

How do we do this? We're way out here in the sticks... we got a piece of paper with a red stamp proving she's not a criminal, and proving her date of birth, etc.

 

However, the official at the notary office is demanding 1400 for the translation and notarizaiton of the following documents:

 

1) Marriage booklet

2) Birth Certificate

3) No criminal record

 

1400 RMB for this.

 

We're told we need 3 copies. 4200 RMB. This can't be right at all. Do we HAVE to get it notarized at her hometown? The girl at the office says that we can only get it done at her office, and we have no other choice... this is so frustrating.

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Granted, there was probably a lot less to translate, but I got my US driver's license translated, notarized, and stamped for 60 rmb.  It was some translation service company attached to a travel agency.  I'd say you're getting the "stupid white monkey laowai" price, for sure.

Hulk:

I think there are specific guidelines, and every website says something different. I'm looking for someone with experience in getting their wife's papers translated and notarized.
 

Yeah, I get the "stupid white monkey" price everywhere. From now on, my wife bargains alone.

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That is overpriced for sure. Last time I translated 2 certificates in Shenyang, the cost was 500 rmb. BTW I don't think the extra copies should cost the same as the first copy, because they are only stamping the first copy and no new translation is involved.

Hulk:

According to the U.S. consulate, they accept notarizations and translations done in any city, so the woman was obviously lying. I am afraid, however, that other places will simply refuse to notarize anything and ask us to go back.

 

Translation was only 50 RMB per document in Guangzhou. I do wonder if I can go there.

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I think you can notarize it anywhere. She is just scamming you by pretending to be the only person who can do it for you.

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Hulk / Pogger. Send your wife back (alone) and get her to bargain a price, tell her when the translator says she is the only one who can do it to say something like, "Well that's strange we had the other ones translated in Guangzhou for 50kuai no problem, we're only here because,we didn't want to go back but at that price...........

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We did that. It didn't work,  she screamed and flipped out on her, and she's the ONLY ONE who works there.


"But that is a different province! Different provinces do things differently."
"I have worked here for several years, and in that time, only 5 or 6 people, yourself included, ever came here for these documents. We have to charge this price."
 

She also refuses to bargain. "I know you need these documents for America, and I'm the only one who can do it for you!"

 

And then she told us we'd have to go to Changsha for some other things. AFTER we pay her that money. I tried to tell my wife to ask her, "Are you a temporary worker?", but my wife doesn't like confrontation. Too bad she couldn't understand my mandarin, or I'd follow up with, "Do you want to be a temporary worker?"

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Are you using contacts through your school?

find the US chamber of commerce and locate a foreign  business  near you and ask them for their notary's details

If the US consulate does not care who does the paperwork  get it where you can

just get the instructions from the consulate in writing.

good luck

 

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We called around different provinces. All of the offices say the same thing: we can only get it done in her hometown. Sigh.

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Went back, took her picture, and "negotiated" a 65% discount. The threat of being exposed as a cheater was enough. Thug life.

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Flashing of appropriate local gang signs would have probably netted an additional 20% discount!

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Sadly, she thought I was deaf when I did that, and started signing back.

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