Certified Translation Services Seattle
Software and aerospace employers in Seattle sponsor thousands of engineers, and each petition carries degrees, transcripts and experience letters written in Chinese, Korean, Hindi or Spanish.
East African households in SeaTac and Tukwila file family papers of their own, while Chinese and Vietnamese families in the Rainier Valley send school records and registry pages.
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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 Seattle clients
Immigration paperwork
Employment petitions and family files for Seattle clients of USCIS.
Birth certificates
Chinese, Vietnamese and Somali registry pages, with seals and stamps kept intact.
Marriage certificates
Marriage books supporting a spouse petition from Bellevue or Kent.
Academic transcripts
Degree records for the University of Washington, Redmond employers and WES.
Court documents
Orders and exhibits for the Western District of Washington, with tabs intact.
Medical reports
Clinic records for insurers, attorneys and disability claims filed in Seattle.
Employment letters
Experience letters for H-1B and green card petitions sponsored in Seattle.
Police records
Record extracts for immigration screening and Washington state licensing.
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 Seattle 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 Seattle and across Washington.
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 Seattle clients
These 6 languages account for most of the document work we receive from Washington, 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 Western District of Washington
- the University of Washington admissions office
- WES and NACES member evaluators
National bodies we prepare documents for
Local coverage
We work with clients across Washington, including Bellevue, Redmond, Tacoma, Kent, Renton. 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 Seattle
Seattle employers recruit across Asia, so the files are thick: a foreign degree, a transcript, an experience letter and a certified translation of each. Technology and aerospace companies sponsor petitions through the year, and one missing page can hold up a start date.
The Rainier Valley carries the Chinese and Vietnamese businesses, SeaTac and Tukwila carry the East African community, and Korean, Tagalog and Spanish records follow the corridors south of downtown toward Kent and Federal Way, where the same languages appear in school files.
Each Seattle order ends with a signed translator statement that gives a name, a date and our company details, attached to the English pages rather than filed apart. A clerk in the Western District of Washington and a petition reviewer at USCIS read that same page.
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 GPA was on a 4.5 scale and the translator set the scale out rather than converting it, which is what admissions asked for.”
Hyun-woo L.
“The court wanted paper, so the PDF came first and the tracked copy arrived two days later at the address I gave.”
Ade D.
“The land record was Urdu from top to bottom, and the English version kept the columns in their original order so the Tehsil could follow it.”
Arun V.
Certified translation FAQs for Seattle
Ten questions clients in Washington ask before ordering a certified translation.
Send scans of every page and say which office receives the file. A quote and a completion date follow by email, typically within 30 minutes.
Yes. USCIS reads a degree or experience letter against a signed translator statement, the certification 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) describes, and every Seattle order carries it.
Yes. University records from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong keep course names, credit hours and any annotation of the school seal as printed.
Orders open at $54 per document, and words past the first 400 cost $0.12 going into English or $0.14 going out to another language.
Yes. Households in SeaTac and Tukwila send Somali birth and marriage papers, and personal names keep the spelling shown on the original document.
A file that reaches us before 4pm Eastern on a weekday normally comes back that day as a PDF. Anything later starts the next business day.
No. Scans and email carry the order, so clients in Tacoma, Everett and Renton never travel. Every page needs to be readable.
Yes, when a court or an agency asks for paper copies. Postage is quoted first, payment covers it, and the set ships by USPS tracked mail. Most petitions need only the PDF.
Yes. Bellevue and Redmond paperwork is handled the same way, and a scan sent before 4pm Eastern usually returns the certified PDF that day.
A written objection within 90 days brings a free correction to the pages, which the terms of use set out for every order placed here.
The certification, the price and the turnaround are the same for documents sent from Seattle. Start with the page that matches what you are sending:
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