Immigration Translation Services
We provide immigration translation for law firms, attorneys, paralegals, and legal operations teams preparing client filings. You get complete certified translations of civil, legal, and academic records, each signed by the translator and laid out like the original.
Move your next filing forward with every foreign-language record translated and signed.
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Certified
- SOC 2 Type II Attested
- AES-256 at Rest
- TLS 1.3 in Transit
- ATA Corporate Member
Where Immigration Files Stall
The translation rule itself is short. Under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), any foreign-language document submitted to USCIS “shall be accompanied by a full English language translation.” The translator must certify it as complete and accurate, and certify their competence to translate.
Most trouble starts in the details around that rule. These four show up in case files more than any others, and our team handles each one.
One client, three spellings.
The birth certificate, passport, and marriage record each transliterate a name differently. Our team sets one spelling for each name at the start. Once your attorney confirms it, a shared glossary carries it onto every document in the file.
Stamps and seals left untranslated.
Partial work fails the “full” translation test. We translate the whole page and recreate its layout, including tables, seals, borders, and form fields.
Requests for Evidence with tight windows.
Missing translations can't wait for a standard queue. Priority processing covers urgent deadlines, and your quote confirms the delivery time before work starts.
Consular filings with their own instructions.
For immigrant visas, the State Department's civil documents guidance asks for certified translations. That covers any document not in English or in the official language of the country where the applicant applies. Our team confirms the recipient during scoping, so each certificate fits the route the case takes.
Immigration Documents We Translate
Family-based petitions pull records from birth, marriage, school, and work, sometimes from three countries. Our immigration document translation covers the full file, grouped the way case teams build it.
Civil Records and Identity Documents
Birth, marriage, divorce, and death certificates, passports, national ID cards, and police certificates. These records anchor identity and relationships, so names, dates, and places have to match across all of them.
Court Records and Supporting Evidence
Court judgments, adoption decrees, custody orders, affidavits, declarations, and letters of support. Legal phrasing stays precise here, because attorneys quote these translations in briefs and in responses to Requests for Evidence. Case numbers, court names, and dates appear exactly as the source shows them. We also translate contracts and litigation documents as part of our legal translation services.
Hand our team the complete case file and get every record translated to one standard.
What Each Certified Translation for Immigration Includes
Your paralegal shouldn't have to check our paperwork before it goes into a filing. Every certified translation for immigration leaves our team with the same package:
Certificate of accuracy: The translator signs a statement that the translation is complete and accurate, with their full name, qualifications, and contact information.
Day Translations letterhead: The certificate carries our letterhead, our American Translators Association (ATA) membership, and our corporate contact details.
Human translation only: Native speakers of the target language translate every certified document.
Secure PDF delivery: You receive an uneditable PDF, ready to attach. Hard copies ship by USPS or FedEx, with tracking, when a recipient wants paper.
Notarization on request: When a recipient asks for a notarized certificate, we add one. Foreign notarization is also available.
For USCIS-only filings, we go deeper into the agency's requirements through USCIS-certified translations. Courts, universities, and licensing boards get the same deliverable through our certified translation services.
Consistent Translations From Petition to Naturalization
Immigration cases rarely end with one filing. Spouse petitions lead to a green card, then a naturalization application years later, and relatives file their own cases along the way. Each new filing draws on the same birth certificates and marriage records.
Our translation memory stores every approved translation and name spelling from your earlier work. When the same client or family returns, the new translations match the ones already in the government's file. Attorneys don't have to explain why a parent's name changed between two filings. Employer-sponsored cases work the same way, since one company's job titles and pay records appear in many employees' petitions.
From Case File to Certified Translation
Case teams work to filing dates, so every project follows the same five stages. Full petitions with dozens of records move through as one immigration translation project, under one quote, and our project team runs each stage.
Scoping:
Our team reviews the documents, languages, recipient, and deadline, then confirms the quote and delivery time.
Translation:
We match each language pair to a native-speaking translator who knows legal and civil records. Your firm's name spellings and glossary go into the project first.
Review:
Before certification, a second qualified linguist compares every translation against its source for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and terminology.
Certification:
The translator signs the certificate of accuracy, and notarization is added where the recipient requires it.
Delivery:
Our team sends the finished set in the agreed format, ready to attach to the filing.
Book your firm's next case file with us, and every record gets a second linguist's review before it's certified.
Interpreting for Client Meetings
Translation covers the paperwork. Conversations with clients who don’t share their attorney’s language need an interpreter. We provide phone and video interpreters through Day Interpreting, our interpreting platform, and send on-site interpreters for in-person meetings. Law firms use them for:
- Attorney-client consultations and intake interviews
- Declaration and affidavit preparation sessions
- Family meetings where several relatives speak different languages
Phone suits a quick status call. Long declaration sessions go better in person, where the attorney can read the client’s reactions. Every interpreter we assign is a native speaker of the client’s language, and our interpreting services cover all three formats.
Confidential Handling of Client Files
Immigration case files carry your clients’ identity documents, family records, and sworn statements. We limit access to the linguists assigned to each file, and our Trust Center documents the controls behind that:
AES-256 encryption at rest
and TLS 1.3 in transit
Role-based permissions
with least-privilege access
Mandatory multi-factor authentication
on a zero-trust setup
NDA-bound staff,
with an NDA available on request
Certificates, reports, and agreements
shared with verified organizations on request
Immigration Translation Services FAQs
No. USCIS doesn't certify or approve translators. The translator certifies their own competence and the accuracy of the translation, and our certificate of accuracy makes exactly that statement.
No. The rule asks for a complete translation and the translator's certification, not a notary's seal. We add notarization only when a court, consulate, or other recipient asks for it.
No. Under Article 3 of the 1961 Hague Apostille Convention, an apostille certifies the signature, the signer's capacity, and any seal or stamp. It says nothing about translation accuracy, so the certificate of accuracy still does that job.
Yes. Our business programs include enterprise billing, so translations for client matters go on your firm's account.
Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, and many less common languages. Your quote confirms each language pair before work starts.
No. Certified documents get no machine translation at any stage, because the translator signs for the full text personally.
We revise it at no charge. That includes a translation of USCIS questions, and the corrected version comes back with a new signed certificate.
Yes. Declarations, identity records, and supporting evidence for asylum cases follow the same process and the same confidentiality controls as every other immigration translation file.
Immigration Translation Services for Law Firms
Attorneys, paralegals, and legal operations teams have enough to manage before a filing deadline. We take the translation work off their desks. Every name is spelled the same way across the case file, and every document comes back with a signed certificate of accuracy.
Request a quote for your firm's next case file, from a single birth certificate to a full petition.
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Certified
- SOC 2 Type II Attested
- AES-256 at Rest
- TLS 1.3 in Transit
- ATA Corporate Member
