Certified Translation Services Across the US
Find the certified translation service for your city: the federal court and receiving bodies that handle documents there, the languages spoken locally, and a translator-signed certificate returned as a PDF, from $54 per document.
DHCTranslations prepares certified translations for clients in the 24 US cities listed below, across the Northeast, Midwest, South and West. Open your city to see the federal district court and receiving bodies that handle documents there, the languages requested most often, and what a certified translation costs.
Every city on this page works the same way: a named human translator produces the translation, a second linguist checks it, and the certified PDF comes back by email with the translator's signature, the date and our company stamp. Nothing depends on reaching an office, so a document photographed in Aurora is handled like one from Manhattan.
What changes between cities is the office receiving the document. A USCIS filing, a federal court exhibit and a credential evaluation each expect the certification page to read a particular way, so the quote asks which body will receive the translation and prepares the wording for it. Where an office wants more than the standard certificate carries, it says so in writing and the price changes before work starts.
Every city on this page is served the same way: documents are sent in electronically and the certified PDF comes back by email, so nothing depends on reaching an office. If you searched for a translator near you, how a remote order works explains the process from upload to delivery.
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Midwest
4 locationsChicago, Columbus, Indianapolis and Minneapolis carry the Midwest. Between them sit one of the largest Somali communities in the country, Polish records along Milwaukee Avenue, Burmese and Karen resettlement in Indianapolis, and a hospital sector filing credentialing paperwork every week.
Northeast
3 locationsNew York, Boston and Philadelphia cover the Northeast, where immigration filings, two federal districts in one city and a dense university and hospital network produce the paperwork. Portuguese, Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole and Spanish run alongside Chinese and Russian.
South
9 locationsHouston, Miami, San Antonio, Dallas, Washington DC, Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte and Jacksonville make the South the largest group. Energy contracts, medical records, the busiest immigration docket in the country and federal filings in the District of Columbia all pass through offices that need English.
West
8 locationsLos Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Denver cover the West, where Tagalog, Vietnamese, Korean, Armenian, Farsi and Spanish arrive alongside tech sector petitions and the border's civil registry records.
Where the court and language data comes from
Reviewed October 27, 2026.
Frequently asked questions
No, and it rarely matters. DHCTranslations works by email: you send scans, the certified PDF comes back, and printed sets are posted by USPS when a court asks for paper. Postage is quoted before payment.
The minimum at DHCTranslations is $54 per document. After the first 400 words the rate is $0.12 per word into English and $0.14 per word from English into another language, with some pairs quoted higher.
Yes. USCIS asks for a complete and accurate translation with the translator's certification signed and dated, which is what 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) describes. No further authentication step is added to the quote.
Distance does not change the turnaround. Most documents confirmed before 4pm Eastern on a weekday are returned the same day by DHCTranslations, and anything later starts the next business day.
Open the city where the document will be filed, or the nearest one with a page. Each names its federal district court, the receiving bodies that handle documents there and the languages requested most often.
Send the document and the office receiving it. The 24 cities are the ones with measured demand, and a client elsewhere is served from the nearest page at the same price.
Spanish appears in nearly every file, then Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese or Korean depending on the city. More than 200 pairs are covered in total.
Yes. Give the address when you order and the certified set can be posted there by USPS, tracked, with postage quoted first. Most clients receive the PDF and forward it themselves.
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Send the document and the office or court that will receive it. The quote confirms the certification wording, the deadline and whether a printed set is needed.