Bulgarian to English translation

Sht, ts and a

Bulgaria’s Transliteration Act sets one table for Latin letters: Щ becomes sht, Ц becomes ts, Ъ becomes a, Ю becomes yu. A name in an older passport may be spelled another way. The translation follows your current passport, so all your papers agree.

Source: Bulgaria, Transliteration Act 2009, Article 4, English text (checked 19 September 2026)

The EGN

The EGN, your 10-digit personal number, begins with your date of birth and appears on most Bulgarian records. It is copied digit for digit, so an Australian office can match the certificate, the licence and the passport to one person.

Family status and multilingual extracts

A certificate of family status lists a spouse and children, the kind of record a visa file often needs, and every person on it is translated. Birth and marriage records can also come as multilingual Vienna Convention extracts; see documents already in English first.

Your licence in full

Front and reverse: your Cyrillic and Latin name, date and place of birth, validity dates, the issuing traffic police office, and the category table with every code put into English.

Civil status certificates

Birth, marriage and death certificates and certificates of family status, translated with the municipality, the record number and any later annotation.

Diplomas and other records

Diplomas with their supplements, transcripts, conviction status certificates and court papers. Seals and signatures are marked where they appear; a word the photo hides is marked [illegible].