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Certified Translation for Asylum Applications

An asylum claim is built on documents that were never meant to be read in English: medical reports, police and court papers, news coverage, threats, and declarations from people who are still where the applicant left. eVerbary translates them in full, certified to what USCIS and the immigration courts require.

What an asylum file contains

Almost none of it is standard paperwork:

• The applicant's own declaration, where it was written in another language
• Witness declarations and affidavits from family, colleagues and neighbours
• Medical and hospital records documenting injuries, and psychological evaluations
• Police reports, summonses, charging documents and court decisions
• Threats: letters, messages, social media posts, screenshots
• Country-conditions evidence — news articles, human rights reports, expert statements
• Identity and civil documents, and membership or party cards

Translated completely, including what is damaged

These documents arrive in the state they arrive in: photographed in a hurry, partly torn, faded, sometimes handwritten under pressure. We translate everything legible and mark what is not as illegible, rather than reconstructing a plausible version of it. In a claim whose credibility is the central issue, a translator's guess that turns out wrong is far more damaging than an honest gap.

Nothing is softened and nothing is heightened. A threat is rendered with the force the original carries, and a vague document stays vague — an officer or a judge is weighing consistency between the documents and the testimony, and a translation that improves on the source creates inconsistencies that were never there.

Certification that works in both forums

An affirmative application goes to USCIS under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3); a defensive one is filed with the immigration court, where 8 CFR 1003.33 and the EOIR practice manual ask for the translator's contact details on the certification as well. Our certifications carry both, on letterhead, page-numbered, so the same packet serves either forum.

Where one certification needs to cover a bundle of exhibits, it will list them.

Confidentiality and turnaround

Asylum files name people who are still at risk. Everything is translated by professional human translators and handled confidentially — never pasted into a public machine-translation tool.

Filing deadlines here are strict and often short. Typical delivery is within 24 hours, same-day is available, and large evidence bundles are quoted before work starts. Tell us the deadline when you order.

How it works

Upload a photo or a scan of your document, pick the language pair and check out online. You never have to mail originals: a legible copy is all we need.

A professional human translator, never machine translation, translates the document word for word and mirrors the layout of the original. Every certified translation ships with a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy that meets the requirements of USCIS, courts and universities.

Your translation is delivered digitally, usually within 24 hours for documents of one to three pages, and same-day delivery is available. If anything needs adjusting, we revise it.

Certified vs. standard translation

A certified translation is a word-for-word translation accompanied by a signed statement attesting to its accuracy and completeness. It is what official bodies require: USCIS, courts, universities and government agencies. Certified translations are $24.95 per page, where a page is up to 250 words.

A standard translation is for business or personal use where certification is not needed, such as CVs, client intake forms or marketing material, and is billed at $0.10 per word.

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