Uzbekistan sends more Diversity Visa selectees to the United States than any other country. Here is exactly what the consulate needs translated — including the requirement the official DV instructions never mention.
Uzbekistan produced more Diversity Visa selectees than any other country on earth in DV-2025 — 5,564 of them. Russia was third, with 5,519. If you are one of them, every civil document you upload has to reach the consulate in English, and the official instructions do not tell you that.
The U.S. Embassy in Tashkent’s own post instructions state that “any documents that are submitted to CEAC and are not in English must be uploaded with certified English translation.” For the interview itself, the same instructions call for “your original birth certificate, English translation, and a photocopy.”
That is worth pausing on, because it answers a question people ask constantly and get wrong. The general rule for consular processing is that documents must be translated if they are not in English or in the official language of the country where you are applying. Applicants in Uzbekistan read that and conclude their Uzbek-language documents are exempt. They are not. The State Department’s reciprocity schedule for Uzbekistan is explicit: all documents, regardless of the language, must be translated into English. The carve-out does not apply to you.
The other thing worth knowing: we read the DV-2026 Plain Language Instructions in full. They contain no translation guidance at all. The requirement is real, it is enforced at the interview, and it is written down somewhere the selectee is not looking. That is the entire reason this page exists.
| Document | Who needs it | Typical pages |
|---|---|---|
| Birth certificate | Principal applicant and every accompanying family member, including children | 1 |
| Marriage certificate | If married | 1 |
| Divorce certificate or spravka o rastorjenii braka | If any prior marriage ended | 1 |
| Death certificate of a former spouse | If widowed | 1 |
| Police certificate | Every applicant aged 16 and over, for every country lived in 12 months or more | 1 |
| Diploma or secondary school certificate | Principal applicant, to prove the education requirement | 1–2 |
| Academic transcript / attestat supplement | Usually requested with the diploma | 1–3 |
| Military book | If you served | 2–4 |
| Court or adoption records | If applicable | varies |
A married couple with one child, no prior marriages and no military service is typically six to eight pages — $210 to $280 all in, certification and notarization included. A household with a prior marriage and a military book runs closer to twelve.
DV eligibility requires either a completed secondary education or two years of qualifying work experience. The consular officer is reading your diploma and transcript to decide whether the first applies. That makes those two documents the ones where a vague or partial translation costs you the most — subject names, hours, grades and the issuing institution all have to carry across, not just the header. We translate the full score table, and we sum it and check it against the printed overall rating before the packet is signed, because a transcription slip in a grades grid is invisible until someone checks the arithmetic.
Uzbek police certificates now come as a plain A4 sheet with a QR barcode, issued within about two business days through the Unified Portal for State Services at my.gov.uz — the route the Tashkent post instructions themselves point to. We translate these routinely, including the QR-coded electronic versions.
One honest caveat. We could not find any official USCIS or State Department statement on whether a self-printed portal PDF is accepted in place of a physical certificate at the interview. We are not going to tell you it is. What we can tell you is that the interview instructions ask for originals, so bring whatever the portal gave you and the printout together.
Uzbek and Russian into English, $35 a page, with the Certificate of Accuracy and notarization included in that price. Twenty-four hours on orders up to three pages. Send the whole household’s documents in one upload — the page count and the total appear on screen before you pay, and we keep the name spellings consistent across every certificate in the set, which for a DV packet matters more than any single document.
Yes. The general consular rule exempts documents in the official language of the country where you are applying, and many applicants assume that covers Uzbek. It does not — the State Department’s reciprocity schedule for Uzbekistan states that all documents, regardless of language, must be translated into English. The Tashkent post instructions say the same thing about anything uploaded to CEAC.
Birth certificate for every family member travelling, marriage certificate if married, divorce or death certificate ending any prior marriage, a police certificate for everyone 16 and over, and the diploma or secondary certificate plus transcript that proves the education requirement. Military books and court records where they apply. Six to eight pages is typical for a couple with one child.
$35 per page, with certification and notarization included — so six pages is $210 and eight is $280, with nothing added at checkout. Upload the household’s documents together and the count and total appear on screen before you pay.
No. We read the DV-2026 Plain Language Instructions in full and they contain no translation guidance whatsoever. The requirement lives in the post-specific instructions for the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent and in the State Department’s reciprocity schedule for Uzbekistan. That gap is why selectees arrive at the interview unprepared.
The requirement is a certified translation, not a notarized one. We notarize every packet at no extra charge anyway, because consulates and foreign authorities frequently want it and it costs you nothing to be covered either way.
Yes. The State Department states that older documents, including those issued during the Soviet era, remain acceptable. They are generally in Russian rather than Uzbek, often handwritten in Cyrillic, and they carry no QR code. They must be translated in full, including seals, stamps and anything on the reverse.
Nothing in the rule forbids a competent person from translating, but a consular officer has discretion to question a translation prepared by someone with an interest in the outcome. For a case where a single interview decides everything, use a disinterested third party. It is a $35 decision against a visa.
Twenty-four hours for up to three pages, and rush 12-hour service is available at $15 a page extra. Larger household packets take a little longer — tell us your interview date when you upload and we will confirm the delivery date before you pay.
Last reviewed 29 August 2026. Every rule quoted on this page links to its primary source. If a figure here is out of date, email orders@certifiedtranslationcenter.com and we will correct it.
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