About Certified Translation Center

Who we are

Certified Translation Center is a Brooklyn-based translation and notarial services provider working in Uzbek, Russian and English. We serve clients in all fifty states online, and we file apostilles in person in New York.

We came to translation from the filing side. Our work began with immigration and business filings for the Central Asian community in New York — petitions, applications, corporate formations, tax matters — and translation was the step that kept going wrong. Documents came back from other providers with the seal untranslated, or with a client’s name spelled three different ways across three certificates, or with a confident English rendering of a stamp that was actually illegible in the original. Each of those creates a Request for Evidence, and each one costs a family months.

So we built the translation in-house, to the standard the filings actually required. That is the whole origin of this company.

What we do differently

• We only work in languages we actually speak. Uzbek and Russian into English. We do not broker your documents to a marketplace of anonymous bidders, and we do not run them through a machine pass with light editing.
• Completeness is checked before phrasing. The review pass asks first whether everything on the page has been carried across — seals, registry numbers, reverse sides, marginal notes — because that is where the actual risk lives.
• We keep translator and notary in separate hands. A notary may not notarize their own signature or a document in which they have a financial interest. Plenty of small translation offices ignore this. It leaves a defect on the face of the document.
• We tell you when you do not need something. USCIS does not require notarization. We say so on our own website, and we price it as a separate $35 tier rather than charging everyone for it, because the honest version of this business is the one we want to run.

The Uzbek problem, specifically

Uzbek is a thin market in the United States. There are not many qualified Uzbek–English translators, and the economics of the large online translation platforms do not support paying for one. The result is that a lot of “Uzbek translation” sold in America is produced through a Russian relay, or by an editor cleaning up machine output.

You can usually tell. A district name comes back as a person’s name. A patronymic disappears. The heading of a Soviet-era form is translated as though it were a modern one. The English reads fluently and the details are wrong — which is the worst combination, because nobody notices until an officer does.

We translate Uzbek directly, in Latin and Cyrillic script, and we recognize the document formats on sight because we handle the same forms every week.

What we are not

Get in touch

Upload your document and pay online, or email orders@certifiedtranslationcenter.com. Law firms and agencies looking to set up an account should see the attorneys page.