Certified Translation Services Chicago
Chicago filings reach the Northern District of Illinois in Spanish, Polish, Chinese, Tagalog, Arabic and Urdu, and each English page has to carry every date and case number intact.
Polish records follow Milwaukee Avenue into the northwest suburbs, Mexican civil books come from Cicero and Berwyn, Tagalog arrives with hospital staff, and Devon Avenue supplies Urdu and Arabic files.
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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 Chicago clients
Immigration paperwork
Civil records and affidavits for a USCIS filing opened in Chicago.
Birth certificates
Mexican and Polish registry pages for green card and passport files.
Marriage certificates
Marriage books for a spouse petition filed in Cook County.
Academic transcripts
Records for UIC, Northwestern, DePaul and the credential evaluators.
Court documents
Judgments and exhibits for the Northern District of Illinois.
Medical reports
Hospital charts for insurers and attorneys working in Cook County.
Police records
Record extracts for immigration screening and Illinois license boards.
Professional licenses
Diplomas and licenses reviewed by Illinois nursing and medical boards.
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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 Chicago 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 Chicago and across Illinois.
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 Chicago clients
These 6 languages account for most of the document work we receive from Illinois, 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 Illinois
- University of Illinois Chicago and Northwestern University admissions offices
- WES and NACES member evaluators
National bodies we prepare documents for
Local coverage
We work with clients across Illinois, including Evanston, Cicero, Oak Park, Berwyn, Skokie. Documents are collected by secure upload, so there is no need to travel or post originals.
Local sources & official guidance
Other locations in Midwest
The same certified service, priced the same way, with the local courts and offices named on each page.
Certified translations in Chicago
Chicago draws immigrants from many countries rather than one, so the paperwork reflects a dozen registry systems: Polish registry pages from the northwest side, Mexican civil pages from Cicero, Filipino nursing credentials from the Illinois Medical District.
The Northern District of Illinois hears a heavy immigration docket, and a translator has to keep the case caption, the file number and the certification page in the order a clerk expects when the set is bound.
Devon Avenue sends Urdu and Arabic, hospital corridors send Tagalog, and Chinatown sends Chinese. Each file passes the same check: names reconciled across two scripts, seals described where they cannot be read, and dates reproduced exactly as issued.
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.
“Laudatur and eximia were explained rather than translated as grades, and the admissions office could see exactly where I sat in the scale.”
Juha N.
“Needed my Syrian marriage certificate for a spouse visa. The translation included the registrar stamp and was back within 24 hours.”
Layla H.
“The birth certificate listed both my parents' identity-card numbers beside a registration stamp that had faded, and the translator reproduced the numbers and described the stamp.”
Nurul A.
Certified translation FAQs for Chicago
Ten questions clients in Illinois ask before ordering a certified translation.
Send a scan of every page with the office name, and a fixed price comes back by email, usually inside 30 minutes.
Yes. Birth, marriage and school records from along Milwaukee Avenue and from Schaumburg and Niles are handled by a Polish translator who keeps diacritics as printed.
Yes. USCIS asks for a complete translation with a signed, dated translator statement, which is what 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) sets out and what ships with each order.
Pricing opens at $54 per document, with $0.12 per word for work into English and $0.14 per word for work out of English after 400 words.
Yes. Devon Avenue clients send Pakistani and Bangladeshi marriage contracts, school certificates and police records, and both scripts are read by staff translators.
Yes, when the file reaches a hospital credentialing office or a state licensing board. Nurses and physicians arriving from the Philippines or Mexico send diplomas and transcripts to those offices, and the reviewer compares the English page against the original.
Files confirmed before 4pm Eastern on a weekday usually go back the same day, and an order placed at 5pm Central starts the next business day.
Yes. Exhibit numbers, staples and seals stay where they were, so the English set can be filed beside the Spanish or Polish original.
Yes. Registro Civil pages from Cicero, Berwyn and Little Village are checked against the book and page numbers, and marginal notes are translated rather than summarized.
Send the objection in writing and the file is corrected 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 Chicago. Start with the page that matches what you are sending:
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