Uzbek Translation Services

Certified Uzbek to English translation for USCIS, courts, universities and credential evaluators. Latin script, Cyrillic script, and the Russian-language documents that Uzbek registry offices have issued for decades. From $25 a page certified, $35 with notarization.

Why Uzbek translation goes wrong in America

Uzbek is a thin market in the United States. There are not many qualified Uzbek–English translators, and the unit economics of the large online translation platforms do not support paying for one. So a great deal of what is sold as Uzbek translation is produced another way: through a Russian relay, or by an editor cleaning up machine output.

The failure mode is specific and recognisable. A district name comes back as a person’s name. A patronymic vanishes. The heading of a Soviet-era registry form is translated as though it were a modern Uzbek one. The English reads perfectly well and the facts are wrong — which is the worst combination available, because nobody catches it until an officer does, months later, in a Request for Evidence.

The three languages of “Uzbek” documents

Latin-script Uzbek

The modern official alphabet, used on documents issued since the transition and on essentially all current government forms. This is what most people picture when they say Uzbek.

Cyrillic-script Uzbek

Uzbek written in the Cyrillic alphabet, standard before independence and in continued use for years afterwards. Older diplomas, work books and registry certificates are frequently in this script, and it is not simply Russian — the language is Uzbek, with Uzbek grammar and vocabulary, in a different alphabet. Translators who only read Russian make characteristic mistakes here.

Russian

The administrative language of the Uzbek SSR, and still widely used. Soviet-era birth, marriage and death certificates issued in Tashkent are almost always in Russian, often on the standard all-union form with the Uzbek SSR coat of arms. Many post-independence documents are bilingual. Whichever yours turns out to be, the price is the same.

Uzbek documents we translate

• Uzbek Birth Certificate
• Uzbek Marriage Certificate
• Uzbek Divorce Certificate
• Uzbek Passport
• Uzbek Diploma
• Uzbek Academic Transcript
• Uzbek Police Clearance Certificate
• Uzbek Death Certificate
• Uzbek Employment Record Book
• Uzbek Military Service Record
• Uzbek Driver’s Licence
• Uzbek Medical Record

Not listed? We translate court filings, asylum declarations, powers of attorney, property records, bank statements, business documents and personal correspondence. Send it and pay online.

Uzbek registry offices and what their seals say

Civil status documents in Uzbekistan come from the FHDYo — the civil status registration office that succeeded the Soviet ZAGS. Its seals name the office, the district (tuman) and the region (viloyat), and that text is part of the document. A translation that renders the names and dates but treats the seal as decoration is incomplete, and incompleteness is precisely what gets a translation rejected.

The same applies to the registry act number and the date of the act, which are distinct from the date the certificate itself was printed. On re-issued certificates those two dates can be decades apart. We carry both across, labelled.

Names, and why yours must match your passport

This is the single most avoidable problem in Uzbek immigration filings. Uzbek names carry patronymics, are transliterated inconsistently between Uzbek, Russian and English, and change on marriage in ways an American form does not anticipate. The rule we apply: the translation matches the passport, every time, and any variant spelling that appears in the original is noted rather than silently normalised.

Send us the passport spelling when you order. It takes you ten seconds and it removes an entire category of risk.

Frequently asked

Guides for Uzbek documents