Khmer to English
Khmer to English translation
For Cambodian families, partners and students who need a birth certificate, family book or marriage record in English, for a visa or an office in Australia. Translated in full, delivered by email, with NAATI certification as an option.
What a Khmer document needs
Three things a Khmer document brings with it
Khmer has its own script and numerals, and it orders names the other way round from English.
Family name first
A Khmer name puts the family name first and the given name after it. The translation keeps the order the document uses and labels which part is the family name, following your passport’s spelling, so an Australian form does not swap them.
The family book
A Cambodian family book records the members of a household and how each is related, and a visa file often leans on it to show who belongs to whom. Every entry is translated, with names, dates of birth and the issuing commune, so the relationships read clearly in English.
Khmer numerals and spellings
Khmer numerals are written as Western digits, so a certificate number or a date reads the same in both versions. Khmer names can be romanised several ways; we use the one in your passport, and note a different spelling where another document shows one.
For a visa or an Australian office
Who may translate, in Home Affairs’ words
A translation made here
“All documents not in English must be translated into English. Translators in Australia must be accredited by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters.” If you are ordering from Australia for a visa, the NAATI certification option is the one that fits that line.
Source: Home Affairs, translating documents (page last updated 16 September 2026)
A translation made in Cambodia
The partner visa checklist lets translators outside Australia work without accreditation, but each translation must include their “full name; address and telephone number; qualifications and experience in the language they are translating”, and “These details must be in English.” Check a home translation against that list before you pay for another.
Source: Home Affairs, subclass 820 checklist (page last updated 10 August 2026)
Recently arrived on an eligible visa? Try the Free Translating Service first for documents it accepts. Building a partner visa file? Partner visa documents that need translation.
What a careful job includes
Every entry, every seal
Civil records
Birth, marriage and death certificates, family books and residence records, translated in full with every seal, signature and registration number.
Late and replacement records
A certificate issued years after the event says so, and the translation keeps that date as printed rather than tidying it away, because the reader needs to see it.
School and university records
Certificates, results and transcripts, translated table for table. Text that cannot be read in the photo is marked in square brackets rather than guessed.
Choose the NAATI certification option for a translation prepared by a NAATI-certified translator, carrying their certification statement, NAATI stamp and credential number. See the birth certificate and marriage certificate pages for those documents.
Pricing
The full price on screen before you order
Translation is $39.99 per page into English, delivered digitally. Add NAATI certification for $59.99 per page, prepared by a NAATI-certified translator and carrying their certification statement, NAATI stamp and credential number. Where the translator uses NAATI’s digital stamp, it carries a QR code you can scan to check the credential.
Delivery is by email and the order page shows the delivery options. Translating a licence only? Start at driver licence translation. Need a NAATI-certified translator? See NAATI translation in Australia. Other languages: Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese and Lao, or see every language we translate.
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