Colorado State Board of Pharmacy: Translation Requirements for Documents in Another Language

Sample translation: a Congolese secondary school transcript

This is what an order looks like when it is delivered, with a fictitious student. The PDF starts with the signed certification page, and the translation follows the original line for line: every abbreviation is explained, stamps, seals and signatures are noted in brackets, and the grid stays the same, so an admissions officer or a credential evaluator can match it without guessing.

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What to notice

• Two school years in the same grid as the original: every subject, grading period, exam and total, so each grade can be read against its maximum.
• The French rating abbreviations are translated (TB becomes VG, Very good), and every abbreviation is explained in a translator's note at the foot of the same page, including one the original never defines.
• Dates are written the US way (the original's 02/07/2015 is February 7, 2015).
• The photo, seals and signatures are noted in brackets where they appear.

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One upload stands in for your school records

Colorado's pharmacist application asks whether you graduated from a foreign school and then asks for an upload: official transcripts showing the degree, or your FPGEC certification (Colorado pharmacist initial application preview (linked from DPO)).

The intern application works the same way for foreign graduates (Colorado pharmacy intern application preview (linked from DPO)).

Your foreign transcripts and diploma therefore do not go to Colorado; they go through the FPGEC process.

There the FPGEC rule applies: an official word-for-word translation, seals and stamps included, with the translator's original signature and date on every page, an accuracy attestation and proof of credentials; no self-translation and no photocopies (FPGEC Bulletin: Documentation Requirements).

License documents need a translation from a credentialed translator (FPGEC Bulletin: Submit Documentation (license and registration)).

Order through a free quote and say the translation is for the FPGEC, so we confirm the format before you pay.

The five-year clock on intern hours

For a foreign graduate the 1,500 intern hours must be completed within five years of obtaining FPGEC certification (Colorado Board of Pharmacy: intern hours FAQ).

Hours count under a pharmacist's direct supervision, under another licensed professional whose practice overlaps with pharmacy, under a drug manufacturer, or as one year as a licensed pharmacist before the Colorado jurisprudence exam (Colorado Board of Pharmacy: intern hours FAQ).

Keep a signed school letter or an out-of-state board's verification for each block of hours: you attest at application, but the Division may audit (Colorado Board of Pharmacy: intern hours FAQ).

Documents applicants usually translate

• Pharmacy school transcripts, for the ECE report inside FPGEC
• Pharmacy degree certificate
• Pharmacist license or registration from your country, for NABP
• Marriage certificate or court order, if your name changed

What an eVerbary translation includes

• A complete English translation of every page, stamps, seals and handwritten notes included, laid out like the original so each line can be matched.
• Grades, hours and credits exactly as recorded, with the grading scale the document prints. We never convert marks to a US GPA or equivalency.
• A signed certificate of translation accuracy on letterhead, with our contact details, delivered as a PDF you can upload or print.
• $24.95 per page with no word cap, certification included; 24 hours for one to three pages as standard. Regular clients who need it can get delivery in as little as 30 minutes, on request.
• Notarization added at checkout ($34.90 per order) when the office asks for a notarized translation.

Submitting the translation to Colorado Board of Pharmacy

• Translations go with your FPGEC paperwork, by mail: education records to ECE and license documents to NABP (ECE, FPGEC). Colorado receives your FPGEC certification as an upload, not the translations (Colorado pharmacist initial application preview (linked from DPO)).

• eVerbary can mail the translations to you in sealed, signed envelopes: choose the hard copy at checkout with your address ($19.95 Priority or $37.95 Express in the US) and write in the order notes that they are for the FPGEC.

How to order

1. Scan or photograph every page of the document, front and back, including any stamps on the reverse.
2. Upload it, choose the language and "certified", and see the price before paying.
3. Receive the PDF, usually within 24 hours for one to three pages, and submit it with the copy of the original wherever the office asks for it.

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