Certified Translation Services San Francisco
San Francisco paperwork arrives in Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, Russian and Vietnamese, and a hiring manager or a federal clerk acts once the English page is in front of them.
Cantonese and Mandarin records come from Chinatown and the Sunset, Tagalog from Daly City, and university and technology files arrive from across the Peninsula, each with its own expected format.
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Filing in court? Each US district court and state court sets its own requirements for a certified translation, so check what the court, or your attorney, has asked for before you order.
Prepared For Submissions To US Agencies & Credential Services
*Authority names are referenced as industry benchmarks of compliance. All official translation orders are processed directly through DHCTranslations.
Documents we translate for San Francisco clients
Immigration paperwork
Petitions and civil records for a USCIS filing opened in the Bay Area.
Birth certificates
Chinese and Vietnamese registry pages for passport and green card files.
Marriage certificates
Marriage and divorce records for a petition in San Francisco County.
Academic transcripts
Records for UCSF, San Francisco State and the credential evaluators.
Court documents
Judgments and exhibits for the Northern District of California.
Medical reports
Clinic charts for insurers and attorneys in San Francisco County.
Employment letters
Employment letters for technology employers running an immigration file.
Passport pages
Identity pages for a passport renewal or a visa interview.
Can't find your specific document type?
We translate document types that are not listed here. Send us the document and we will confirm the price before you order: [email protected].
Beyond these, we translate tenancy agreements, employment contracts, company records, medical reports and name-change deeds every week for San Francisco clients. See pricing or request a quote.
USCIS and US Court Certified Translations
The same certification standards we apply across the United States, delivered to clients in San Francisco and across California.
USCIS & Immigration Certification
Used for green card, visa, citizenship and family applications where a foreign-language document has to be filed in English. Each certified translation carries a statement signed by the translator who produced it, which is what a USCIS officer reads.
- The translator's full name, signature and the date of the translation.
- A statement that the translation is complete and accurate, with our company details.
- Every page, including stamps, seals and any reverse side, with nothing summarized.
Court-Ready Filings
For state and federal filings, depositions, judgments and exhibits where a foreign-language document is part of the record. Every court sets its own rule on the translator's declaration, so tell us the court and we prepare the wording it expects.
- Translator declaration: in the form your court requires, signed and dated as a separate page.
- Clause, paragraph and exhibit references kept to match the bundle index.
- The source pages supplied alongside, so the two versions can be compared in the filing.
Most frequently requested languages for San Francisco clients
These 6 languages account for most of the document work we receive from California, but they are only a fraction of what we cover. We translate 200+ language pairs, so if yours is not listed, just ask.
Institutions we prepare documents for
- USCIS
- the US District Court for the Northern District of California
- University of California, San Francisco and San Francisco State University admissions offices
- WES and NACES member evaluators
National bodies we prepare documents for
Local coverage
We work with clients across California, including Oakland, Berkeley, Daly City, South San Francisco, San Mateo. Documents are collected by secure upload, so there is no need to travel or post originals.
Local sources & official guidance
Other locations in West
The same certified service, priced the same way, with the local courts and offices named on each page.
Certified translations in San Francisco
San Francisco is a small city with a dense set of readers: a federal court, two university systems, hospital networks and technology employers that all handle foreign documents inside the same few square miles. A translation prepared for one of them often has to satisfy another within the year.
Chinatown and the Sunset produce the largest volume, in Cantonese and Mandarin, while Tagalog follows the Daly City line, Russian runs through the Richmond District, and Vietnamese and Spanish come from the Mission and the Tenderloin.
Technology hiring adds employment letters, diplomas and contract pages that never reach a courtroom. Those files go to a personnel office, which reads the certified statement the way a clerk does: signature, date, and a claim that the translation is complete and accurate.
Need something specific? Send the document for a fixed quote.
What our clients say
Rated 4.9/5 from 314 verified reviews for USCIS submissions, court filings and credential evaluations.
“The marriage certificate and the travel document were translated together and the names matched across both, which is what the entry clearance officer queried on my first attempt.”
Fatima S.
“A Kurmanji good-conduct certificate was certified for a work visa and arrived the same day.”
Rebaz M.
“My passport uses Hepburn but the koseki reads my surname differently, and the note reconciling the two was exactly what the caseworker needed.”
Haruka S.
Certified translation FAQs for San Francisco
Ten questions clients in California ask before ordering a certified translation.
Send scans of every page and the name of the office receiving them, and a fixed price with a delivery date comes back by email, usually inside 30 minutes.
Yes. Records from Chinatown and the Sunset arrive in both written forms, and names keep the romanization the original document uses.
Yes. The translator signs and dates a statement of accuracy, which is the certification 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) asks for, and it is attached to every translated set.
A single document costs at least $54, with $0.12 per word into English and $0.14 per word out of English charged after the first 400 words.
Yes. Readers at the University of California, San Francisco and San Francisco State University compare the English page against grades and credits, and course names stay as issued.
Yes. Companies in SoMa and along the Peninsula running an H-1B or green card file want diplomas and employment letters in English, signed and dated for the petition.
Orders placed before 4pm Eastern are usually finished the same weekday, so a morning scan can be back by the afternoon.
Yes. Exhibit labels, staple marks and the original page order are preserved, so the English set can be filed beside the Chinese or Spanish document.
Yes. Tagalog birth certificates, transcripts and employment letters from Daly City and South San Francisco arrive weekly, and names are reproduced exactly as printed.
Send the objection in writing and the file is redone free inside 90 days of the order, under the published terms of use.
The certification, the price and the turnaround are the same for documents sent from San Francisco. Start with the page that matches what you are sending:
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