Frequently Asked Questions

No. Under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) USCIS requires a full English translation plus the translator's signed certification of completeness, accuracy and competence. Notarization is not mentioned and is not required. Courts, consulates and schools abroad often do want it — that is the $35 notarized tier, where a separate commissioned New York notary notarizes the translator's signature.

No. USCIS maintains no approved-translator list and requires no licence, degree or accreditation. Companies advertising themselves as ‘USCIS certified’ are using a phrase with no official meaning. What gets certified is the translation, by the translator.

Neither. American Translators Association membership is a professional credential, not a legal requirement, and USCIS does not ask for it.

$25 per page certified (what USCIS requires), or $35 per page with notarization. A page is one page of the original document up to 250 words.

24 hours for a single document. Rush 12-hour service is +$15 per page, for single documents only. Larger and multi-document orders get a delivery date by email after upload.

Yes, and most of our clients do. Make sure all four corners are visible, the image is in focus, and nothing is covering a seal or stamp. Include the reverse side if it has anything printed or written on it.

That is extremely common, especially for anything issued before the mid-1990s. We translate both languages at the same rate, so it makes no difference to your price. We identify the source language at intake rather than assuming from the country.

Yes. Uzbek switched to a Latin alphabet after independence, but Cyrillic-script Uzbek remained in wide use for years and is still found on older documents and in some regions. We work in both.

Exactly as it appears on your passport. Central Asian names can be transliterated several valid ways, and a mismatch between your translation and your other filings is one of the easiest things for an officer to flag. Send us the passport spelling with your order.

Yes, all of them, along with registration numbers, serial numbers, marginal notes and anything on the reverse. An incomplete translation is the leading cause of rejection, well ahead of anything to do with the translator's credentials.

We mark it [illegible]. That is the correct professional practice. Guessing at unreadable text introduces a statement into your record that the original does not support, which is a far worse problem than the gap.

Yes. The regulation says the foreign-language document must be accompanied by the translation — both go in together. We deliver the packet already assembled in the right order.

Not the Uzbek original — only Uzbekistan can apostille an Uzbek document. We can apostille the notarized translation we produce here in New York, which is usually what is actually needed.

You do not need it: our New York notary notarizes the translator’s signature — you never need to appear, wherever you are. If the translation will be apostilled, that notarization is done in wet ink, because New York does not issue electronic apostilles.

If a U.S. agency, court or institution rejects our translation because of the translation itself, we correct and re-issue it at no charge, and if that does not resolve it we refund you in full. We do not contradict that promise elsewhere in our terms.

You pay online when you place the order — card, Apple Pay, Amazon Pay or Klarna. The total is worked out from your page count and shown in full before you enter any card details. Law firms and agencies can be set up on monthly invoicing instead.

Yes — monthly invoicing and direct client intake, at the same flat per-page price (no volume discounts). See the attorneys page.

Your files are seen only by our translation team and, for notarized orders, the notary, and we do not run client documents through public machine-translation services. Source files are deleted 90 days after delivery unless you ask us to keep them for a follow-on filing.

The regulation does not forbid it, but it is unwise. Officers may question a translation where the translator has an interest in the outcome, and a self-translated document is the easiest thing for an officer to challenge. Use a disinterested third party.

No. We are a translation and notarial services provider, not a law firm. We cannot tell you which documents your case requires or how to file — that is for your attorney. We can tell you exactly what a compliant translation looks like.