Farsi (Persian) is one of the world's great literary languages and the heritage language of the largest Iranian diaspora outside Iran — over one million Iranian-Americans concentrated in Los Angeles (Tehrangeles), Washington DC, and the Bay Area.
Free quote in 10 minFarsi — also called Persian or Parsi — is the official language of Iran and the literary backbone of Persianate civilisation across Iran, Afghanistan (where it is called Dari), and Tajikistan (where it is called Tajik and written in Cyrillic). Iranian Farsi uses the Perso-Arabic script (RTL) with four letters added beyond standard Arabic. We assign every Farsi project to a native linguist matched to the correct variant — Iranian Farsi, Afghan Dari, or Tajik — and to the correct register, whether modern colloquial Tehrani or formal pre-1979 administrative Farsi.
From USCIS-accepted Iranian شناسنامه (shenasnameh / birth certificates) to IFDA pharmaceutical submissions in Tehran and Section 1557 patient materials for the Tehrangeles Iranian-American community across Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Westwood — Day Translations matches every Farsi project to a native linguist by variant and jurisdiction.
USCIS-accepted certified translations for Iranian شناسنامه (shenasnameh / national ID & birth record), marriage contracts (سند ازدواج), Iranian passports, military service cards, and academic transcripts from University of Tehran, Sharif, and Amirkabir. Signed statement of accuracy.
Contracts, court filings, Iranian Civil Code documents, USCIS asylum packets, religious-civil family-law documentation, and corporate documents under Iran's Commercial Code. NAJIT-affiliated court-certified Farsi interpreters available.
IFDA Iran (Iranian Food and Drug Administration) regulatory submissions, clinical trial protocols, Section 1557 patient materials at sixth-grade reading level, and HIPAA-compliant EHR localisation for the Tehrangeles Iranian-American patient population.
Consecutive, simultaneous, OPI, and VRI in Iranian Farsi, Afghan Dari, and Tajik variants. Court-certified Farsi interpreters for federal immigration proceedings, asylum hearings, and depositions in CDCA, EDVA, and NDCA federal districts.
Website, software, and app localisation with full RTL layout support and Perso-Arabic script handling. Iranian Farsi uses four letters beyond standard Arabic (پ چ ژ گ). Text typically expands 25-30% vs English. Tehrangeles diaspora reviewers available.
Voice-over casting in Iranian Farsi for film, documentary, and diaspora broadcast media (Iran International, Manoto TV, BBC Persian). Pre-1979 administrative-register voice work for heritage and historical projects also available.
Farsi medical translation operates across multiple jurisdictions. Iran's IFDA (Iranian Food and Drug Administration), part of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, regulates pharmaceutical marketing authorisation, GMP compliance, clinical trial registration through the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials, and post-market pharmacovigilance. Iran has progressively harmonised with ICH and WHO frameworks while requiring Farsi-language patient information and labelling for the domestic market. Sanctions-affected pharmaceutical exemptions require careful regulatory translation.
Farsi healthcare translation also serves the dense US Iranian-American community — concentrated in Los Angeles (Westwood, Beverly Hills, Tarzana — collectively 'Tehrangeles'), Washington DC and Northern Virginia, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Houston. Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act requires qualified Farsi interpreters and translated vital documents free of charge for Limited English Proficient patients. UCLA Health and Cedars-Sinai formally recognise Farsi as a priority LEP language under their language-access policies.
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Iran operates under a civil-law system codified largely under the post-1979 Islamic Republic, with family law governed by Shia Islamic jurisprudence (Ja'fari school). Marriage, divorce, custody, and inheritance follow religious-civil frameworks that require culturally and religiously precise translation. Pre-1979 documents follow earlier Pahlavi-era Civil Code conventions. Day Translations is a NAJIT member and provides court-certified Farsi interpreters across federal districts with significant Iranian-American populations — particularly CDCA (Los Angeles), EDVA (Northern Virginia), and NDCA (San Francisco Bay Area).
Requires meaningful language access for LEP individuals. Farsi is among the top 15 most-requested federal interpreter languages in CDCA, EDVA, and NDCA — driven by Tehrangeles, Northern Virginia, and Bay Area Iranian-American populations.
Mandates federally certified interpreters in federal courts. Farsi federal-court interpretation is heavily requested in Los Angeles immigration courts for asylum, family reunification, and removal-defence proceedings — particularly for political and religious-minority asylum cases.
Iran's Civil Code combines continental civil-law structure with Shia Islamic family law (Ja'fari school). Marriage, divorce, mahr (mehrieh), custody, and inheritance documents require religiously and linguistically precise translation. Pre-1979 Pahlavi-era documents follow different conventions.
Day Translations operates under full OFAC compliance. Iran-related humanitarian, pharmaceutical-exemption, and family-reunification translation work is supported under General License frameworks — with translator vetting and project documentation aligned to current sanctions guidance.
Farsi (Persian) is the official language of Iran, the most widely spoken language in Afghanistan as Dari, and the official language of Tajikistan as Tajik (written in Cyrillic). The Iranian diaspora is one of the most educated and economically successful in the world, with significant concentrations across North America and Europe.
Iran has the second-largest economy in the Middle East and North Africa region by GDP — over $400 billion — driven by oil and gas (NIOC), petrochemicals, automotive (Iran Khodro, Saipa), pharmaceuticals (Iran is the regional pharma manufacturing leader), and a growing technology sector centred in Tehran. Sanctions complicate market entry but humanitarian, food, and pharmaceutical channels operate under OFAC General Licenses. Farsi localisation is essential for global pharma exemption work, humanitarian operations, and diaspora-targeted brands.
The US Iranian-American consumer market is concentrated in Tehrangeles (Westwood, Beverly Hills, Tarzana — LA collectively hosts over half a million Iranian-Americans), Northern Virginia and DC, the SF Bay Area, and Houston. Iranian-Americans are among the highest-educated and highest-income immigrant communities in the US — premium fintech, luxury retail, automotive, and pharma brands routinely localise specifically for this market. Day Translations' Farsi team includes in-country Tehran-based linguists, Tehrangeles diaspora reviewers, and OFAC-aware project managers.
USCIS, asylum (political & religious-minority), CDCA/EDVA/NDCA federal courts, NAJIT-certified
IFDA submissions, Section 1557 patient communication, UCLA Health priority language
Iran is the regional pharma manufacturing leader — IFDA submissions, OFAC humanitarian exemptions
NIOC, NPC — historical and humanitarian-channel documentation under OFAC frameworks
Tehran tech sector, diaspora-backed startups, Bay Area Iranian-founded SaaS localisation
Iran International, Manoto, BBC Persian, diaspora cinema, voice-over for heritage content
University of Tehran, Sharif, Amirkabir transcripts; USCIS academic equivalency, F-1 visas
Tehrangeles consumer corridor, premium automotive, fintech, and luxury-good localisation
We assess variant (Iranian Farsi, Afghan Dari, Tajik), target jurisdiction, register (modern vs pre-1979 administrative), and OFAC scope where relevant.
Iranian Farsi projects go to Tehran or Tehrangeles linguists; Dari to Afghan-trained linguists; Tajik to Dushanbe-based editors.
Human translation with full RTL Perso-Arabic script accuracy and cultural-religious precision for family-law documents.
Second native Farsi linguist reviews — never the original translator.
Final files in RTL-correct format with Perso-Arabic typography. Certificate of accuracy for USCIS.
“We handle a heavy caseload of Iranian asylum matters at the Los Angeles immigration court — political dissent, religious-minority (Baha'i, Christian convert), and LGBTQ-asylum cases. Day Translations' certified Farsi translations for شناسنامه and Iranian court documents are accepted by USCIS first-pass. Their NAJIT-certified interpreters handle sensitive cultural and religious terminology with precision.”
“Our hospital serves the dense Iranian-American community in Westside Los Angeles. Day Translations provides 24/7 Farsi medical interpretation and Section 1557 vital document translation in proper Perso-Arabic RTL. The team understands intergenerational dynamics — first-generation Iran-born patients with US-born children — and handles religious-cultural sensitivity (Shia Islamic, Baha'i, Jewish-Iranian, Zoroastrian) with consistency.”
“We export pharmaceutical APIs to Iran under OFAC General Licenses for humanitarian and essential-medicine channels. Day Translations' Farsi regulatory team understands IFDA submission requirements, the difference between Iranian and Afghan Dari conventions, and OFAC compliance documentation. Tehran reviewers add the in-country authority we needed for clearance.”
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Ask a specialistFarsi and Persian are the same language — 'Persian' is the English exonym, 'Farsi' (فارسی) is the endonym used by speakers in Iran. Dari (Afghan Persian) and Tajik (Tajik Persian) are closely related variants of the same broader Persian language family but diverge meaningfully. Iranian Farsi and Afghan Dari are mutually intelligible but differ in pronunciation, vocabulary, and register; Dari preserves older Persian features. Tajik is essentially Persian written in a modified Cyrillic alphabet (a Soviet-era choice) with Russian-influenced vocabulary. Day Translations maintains separate translator rosters for each variant.
Iranian Farsi uses the Perso-Arabic script (RTL) with four additional letters beyond standard Arabic (پ چ ژ گ). Proper RTL layout, OpenType ligature support, and Persian-specific glyph variants are required for clean output — standard Arabic-aware tooling alone is not sufficient. Farsi text typically expands 25-30% vs English. Register matters: pre-1979 Pahlavi-era administrative Farsi differs from modern Islamic Republic official Farsi, and Tehrangeles diaspora Farsi sometimes preserves older lexical features. Religious-civil family law (mahr/mehrieh, Ja'fari Shia jurisprudence) requires specialised translator expertise.
USCIS requires certified English translations of Iranian شناسنامه (shenasnameh — the combined national ID and birth record), marriage contracts (سند ازدواج with mehrieh details), divorce decrees, Iranian passports, military service cards (کارت پایان خدمت), and academic transcripts from University of Tehran, Sharif University of Technology, Amirkabir, and other institutions. Asylum applicants frequently submit Iranian court summonses, religious-minority documentation (Baha'i, Christian convert, Jewish), and political-affiliation evidence. Day Translations provides USCIS-accepted certified Farsi translations with a signed statement of accuracy.
IFDA (Iranian Food and Drug Administration), part of Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education, is the national regulator for pharmaceuticals, medical devices, food safety, and cosmetics. IFDA requires Farsi-language documentation for marketing authorisation, GMP compliance, clinical trial registration (through the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials), and pharmacovigilance reporting. Iran is the regional pharmaceutical manufacturing leader, with active operations among Iranian-Americans and humanitarian channels under OFAC General Licenses for essential medicines.
Yes. Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act both require qualified Farsi interpreters and translated vital documents — free of charge — to Limited English Proficient patients in any federally funded healthcare program. Farsi is officially recognised as a priority LEP language by UCLA Health, Cedars-Sinai, Inova Health (Northern Virginia), Stanford Health Care, and Houston Methodist. Family-member interpretation is non-compliant under HHS OCR guidance. IMEs for Farsi-speaking workers' compensation claimants also require qualified Farsi interpreters.
Tehrangeles — the Los Angeles Westside corridor of Westwood, Beverly Hills, Tarzana, and Encino — hosts the largest Iranian-American community in the world outside Iran, with over half a million people. Northern Virginia and the DC metro form the second-largest concentration, followed by the San Francisco Bay Area (particularly Marin County and the Peninsula), Orange County (Irvine), Houston, and Seattle. Iranian-Americans are among the highest-educated and highest-income immigrant communities in the US, with significant representation in technology, medicine, law, finance, and academia.
Yes. Day Translations operates under full OFAC compliance for Iran-related work. Permissible categories — humanitarian, essential medicines, food, telecommunications under General License D, family reunification, academic, and personal-document translation for individuals — are supported with translator vetting, project documentation, and payment-route compliance aligned to current sanctions guidance. We do not handle work outside General License or specific-licence frameworks. Pharmaceutical regulatory documentation for IFDA submissions under humanitarian exemptions is one of our most common Iran-related project types.
Certified USCIS translations of single-page Iranian civil documents (شناسنامه, marriage contracts) are delivered in 24–48 hours; rush same-day available for asylum proceedings. Standard Farsi translation up to 5,000 words runs 2–5 business days under full ISO 17100 workflow. IFDA regulatory packages take 5–10 business days. Farsi software and website localisation typically scopes 2–4 weeks for an initial release, with RTL rendering verification on target environments required. Voice-over and subtitling for diaspora media projects scope by length and dialect.
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