Azerbaijan has pioneered a one-stop government service model through ASAN xidmət (Azerbaijan Service and Assessment Network), which handles civil status registration alongside dozens of other government services. Birth, death, marriage, and divorce registrations are processed through ASAN centers across the country, replacing the older ZAGS (Vətəndaşlıq Vəziyyəti Aktlarının Dövlət Qeydiyyatı) system inherited from the Soviet era.
Translating Azerbaijani civil documents requires familiarity with the distinctive format of ASAN-issued certificates. These documents feature modern security elements including QR codes and watermarks, issued in Azerbaijani using the Latin script adopted in 1991. However, many Azerbaijanis still possess older documents — birth certificates, marriage records, and academic diplomas — issued during the Soviet period in Cyrillic-script Azerbaijani or Russian. DoVisa's translators handle both modern Latin-script and Soviet-era Cyrillic Azerbaijani documents with equal expertise.
Azerbaijani names follow a patronymic structure: given name, father's name (with the suffix -oğlu for males or -qızı for females), and surname. Accurate transliteration of these names is critical — immigration authorities may reject applications where name spellings differ across translated documents. DoVisa ensures consistent name transliteration across all documents in a set.
