Home / Medical Licenses & Diplomas

Certified Medical License Translation

eVerbary translates your medical license 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.

What ECFMG asks for, which is not what most agencies ask for

A physician educated outside the United States runs into ECFMG before anything else, and its translation rules are unusually specific. As published in September 2026:

• The translation must be word-for-word. An abstract or summary translation is not acceptable.
• It must be prepared from the original document or a photocopy of it — not from a transcribed version.
• The original-language document and the translation must be submitted together. Neither is accepted alone.
• It must carry a certification statement and the signature and title of the person or service that prepared it, with a seal where there is one.
• It must appear on letterhead, and if a private company prepared it the letterhead must identify the company as a translation service.
• Applicants may not translate their own documents.

Read the current booklet before you order

Those are ECFMG's rules, not ours, and ECFMG revises its information booklet every year. Open the current one and read the translation section for yourself before paying anyone. If it has changed, the booklet is right and this page is out of date.

Our translations come back on eVerbary letterhead identifying us as a translation service, signed, with a certification of accuracy and our contact details — which is the shape the booklet describes.

Beyond ECFMG: state boards and hospital credentialing

The medical diploma and transcripts are only the start. State medical boards, residency programmes and hospital credentialing offices ask for their own set: the license to practise issued in your home country, certificates of good standing or of no disciplinary action, internship and residency certificates, specialty board certificates, and letters of verification from the institutions where you trained.

Each body sets its own rules, so check the one you are applying to. What is constant is that every non-English document needs a complete, literal English translation with a signed certification attached.

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.

Frequently asked questions

Related services

For firms and institutions

From the blog