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Certified Spanish Medical Records Translation

eVerbary translates your Spanish 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.

The clinical history and the discharge report

Spanish patients have a legal right of access to their clinical history (historia clínica) and to a copy of it, and centres must keep it for at least five years after each discharge. At the end of every episode of care the patient is entitled to a discharge report (informe de alta), which by law gives the patient's details, a summary of the history, the care provided, the diagnosis and treatment recommendations. That report is the document most often translated.

Records come from the regional health service or a private clinic, and may be in Spanish or a co-official language. We keep every heading, date, signature and stamp. Diagnosis codes are copied unchanged, drug names are kept as written, and anything we cannot read is marked [illegible] rather than guessed. Laboratory values and units are reproduced exactly, with reference ranges kept beside each result. Send scans; originals are not needed.

Vaccination records

For the USCIS medical exam the civil surgeon reviews vaccination history, and a translated record can save repeat shots. Spanish records use the abbreviations of the Ministry of Health's vaccination calendar: TV (triple vírica) is MMR, DTPa, dTpa and Td are diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccines, VPI is inactivated polio, VPH is HPV and VVZ is varicella. We expand each one and keep the original beside it.

If your records support a disability claim, see the Spanish disability certificate page. Records from Latin America have their own pages, such as the Mexican medical records page. See also our Spanish page. A complete translation of the discharge report is usually what a US doctor or insurer needs in order to read your history. We translate the whole report, not a summary.

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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