Hukou translation: the whole booklet or just my page?
Which pages to submit is set by the receiving authority's checklist; every page you submit must be translated in full — at minimum the head-of-household page and your own page. With a collective hukou you usually only get a stamped copy of your own registration page, and that page is what gets translated.
The situation
A hukou booklet has a cover, a head-of-household page and one page per member. People registered under a school or employer's collective hukou have no booklet of their own.
What the rules say
8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) requires a full English translation of each foreign-language document submitted, so every page you submit is translated in full — not just the name and birth date. For immigrant visas, civil facts such as birth are documented with notarial certificates from a Chinese notary office.
Official source: eCFR: 8 CFR § 103.2 (full text) · U.S. Department of State: Collect Civil Documents (translations)
Sources last verified 2026-10-01
How we handle it
- Every page you submit is translated in full, including move-in / move-out records, changes and every seal
- A collective-hukou registration page is translated in its original layout, keeping the registering unit's and police station's seals
- Hukou pages are priced by actual content, so translating only your page and the head-of-household page costs less
Price
Certified translation is $16 per real uploaded page (minimum order $25), including the translator's declaration and translation seal; the quote you see after uploading is the final price.
Hukou (household register) translation: requirements and price →More special cases
- My Chinese certificate already has English on it — do I still need a certified translation?
- I have an English CHSI verification report — do I still need a certified translation?
- My Chinese birth certificate is handwritten — how is it translated for USCIS?
- The name on my Chinese documents is spelled differently from my passport — what does the translation use?
- Can I translate only part of a Chinese bank statement?
- My old Chinese marriage certificate is faded — can it still get a certified translation?
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One transparent price includes the translation, translator's declaration and bilingual seal — the quote you see is the final price.