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Certified French Medical Records Translation

eVerbary translates your French medical records into English for $24.95 per page with no word cap, by a professional human translator, with a signed certification. Most orders are delivered within a few hours. Accepted by USCIS and by US universities, colleges and schools, or your money back.

No single file, and a right to a copy

There is no single French medical record: each doctor, dentist and hospital holds its own file on you. You can ask each of them for a copy. It must be sent within 8 days, and not before 48 hours have passed; for information more than five years old the limit is two months. The online Mon espace santé lets you store and share documents, but it does not replace the files held by doctors and hospitals.

So a US doctor, insurer or immigration physician may receive a bundle from several sources: hospital discharge reports, test results, prescriptions and letters. We translate each document in full, letterheads, stamps and handwritten notes included, and keep dates in the French day-month order explained. You can consult a file on site or ask for copies; copying and postage may be charged. Because each file belongs to one provider, a complete history means one request to each of them.

Identifiers and terms we keep

French medical papers often carry the social security number (NIR). Its 13 digits give sex, year and month of birth, place of birth (99 for people born abroad) and an order number, followed by a two-digit key. We copy it digit by digit, since it is how a record is matched to a patient. For people born abroad, the place digits begin with 99 followed by a code for the country, which is often how a reader sees that a patient was born outside France.

Drug names stay as written, with the dosage, because French brand names differ from US ones; the pharmacist or doctor identifies the equivalent. Abbreviations are expanded only when their meaning is certain. Hospital discharge reports (comptes rendus d'hospitalisation) and laboratory results keep their units and reference ranges as printed. For disability decisions, see the French disability certificate page; for other countries, the Haitian and Congolese pages. See our French page.

What USCIS requires

Under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), a foreign-language document must be accompanied by a complete English translation and the translator's certification that it is accurate. Every seal, stamp and marginal note is part of the document, so every one is translated.

State agencies set their own rules — see government agencies — and what our certification states is on this page.

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 one sheet of your document is one page, with no word cap.

A standard translation is the same professional human translation without the certificate, for when you only need to understand the content or for internal or informal use. It is billed at the same $24.95 per page with no word cap.

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