It has to be done by a certified legal translator. Any lawyer's office will be able to refer you to one. When I had to have my birth certificate translated - one of the requisites for getting married in the DR - they did a reasonable job.
The only mistake was the translation of my father's profession at the time of my birth which was 'House Doctor' to 'Medico a Domicilio', when in fact a House Doctor in the UK is a junior hospital doctor, not a doctor who makes house calls. It didn't make much difference in the scheme of things though.
Chiri
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