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Certified Taiwanese Medical Records Translation

eVerbary translates your Taiwanese 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.

What Taiwanese hospitals hand over

Under the Medical Care Act, hospitals and clinics must keep medical records for at least seven years, and records of minors until seven years after they reach adulthood. A patient can ask for copies and, when needed, a summary in Chinese (art. 71). Where your records already contain medical terms in English, we keep them exactly as written and translate the Chinese around them, so nothing is translated twice or lost.

A diagnosis certificate (診斷書) is a separate document. Under the Physicians Act a doctor can issue one only after personally examining the patient, and one issued for an insurance claim must be written in Chinese (Medical Care Act, art. 76). It is short and formal, with the diagnosis, the dates of treatment and the doctor's seal, and we translate each element.

Codes, dates and vaccination records

Diagnosis codes and drug names are copied unchanged, and anything we cannot read is marked [illegible] rather than guessed. Dates may be in Minguo or Gregorian form; where the original uses Minguo years, we keep them and add the Gregorian year in brackets. Handwritten notes are translated wherever they are legible, and every hospital stamp is noted. Printed laboratory reports are translated table by table.

For the USCIS medical exam, the civil surgeon reviews vaccination history, so a translated vaccination record can save repeat shots. If your records support a disability claim, see the Taiwanese disability certificate page. See also our Chinese page. Vaccine names are kept as written, with the Chinese description translated beside them, and each date is checked against the original. Records are kept for at least seven years, so ask the hospital early.

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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