Idaho 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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Idaho Board of Pharmacy requirements in detail

Idaho's two paths for the hours

The Board's foreign graduate sheet splits applicants by where the 1,740 hours are done.

If you will complete them at an Idaho pharmacy, you first register as an Idaho Intern-Graduate; if you already completed them in another US state, you skip that registration and send the Experiential Hours Affidavit with the pharmacist application (Idaho Board of Pharmacy: foreign pharmacy school graduate process and Experiential Hours Affidavit).

Either way, every foreign graduate files the affidavit, which names the pharmacy, its license number and the dates, and is sworn before a notary (Idaho Board of Pharmacy: foreign pharmacy school graduate process and Experiential Hours Affidavit).

Idaho grants Permission to Test for the NAPLEX only after licensing staff review the pharmacist application (Idaho Board of Pharmacy: foreign pharmacy school graduate process and Experiential Hours Affidavit).

Applicants also create an Idaho PDMP account, unless they already have one, and send a government photo ID and fingerprints (Idaho Board of Pharmacy: licensing information for pharmacists).

Translations for the FPGEC

Idaho does not collect your foreign transcripts; ECE and NABP read them inside FPGEC certification.

The FPGEC wants 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; license documents need a translation from a credentialed translator (FPGEC Bulletin: Documentation Requirements, FPGEC Bulletin: Submit Documentation (license and registration)).

Order through a free quote and say it is for the FPGEC, so we confirm the format before you pay. The Experiential Hours Affidavit is an English form completed in the US, so it needs no translation.

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 Idaho Board of Pharmacy

• Translations go with your FPGEC paperwork, by mail: education records to ECE and license documents to NABP (ECE, FPGEC).

  Idaho receives your application and the Experiential Hours Affidavit; questions go to HP-licensing@dopl.idaho.gov (Idaho Board of Pharmacy: foreign pharmacy school graduate process and Experiential Hours Affidavit).

• 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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