Pick your page count and see your price before you send a thing. Then send me a photo of your document. I confirm the count and reply with the invoice and the exact date you'll have it — usually within a couple of hours. $55 a page, every language, and the signed certificate USCIS asks for is included.
Your estimate updates as you go. Nothing is charged here: I check the page count against your document, then send the invoice and your delivery date.
This is what confuses almost everybody, and it's where people end up paying for things they don't need.
The translator signs a statement swearing the translation is complete and accurate. That signed certificate travels with your document. For a green card, citizenship, or any other USCIS filing, this is all you need.
A notary confirms who signed that certificate. Worth being clear: a notary does not check the translation and can't vouch for it. Some courts, schools and foreign consulates ask for it anyway. I'm a commissioned Idaho notary, so if you need it, it's the same stop: $40 for the first document, $5 for each additional document on the same order.
The Idaho Secretary of State certifies the notary's signature so another country will accept the document. This only matters when the paperwork is leaving the United States. I hand-carry to the Secretary of State in Boise, and the notarization is included in that price — you don't pay the $40 on top. This price is for documents issued or notarized in Idaho. A document from another state goes to that state's Secretary of State instead, so it adds that state's fee and return shipping; I quote the difference before you pay.
If you're filing with USCIS, you need certified. That's it. Anyone selling you all three for an immigration application is selling you two things you don't need. Tell me what you're filing and I'll tell you straight which one it is.
Photo or PDF through the form above, or text it to (208) 826-1210. A phone picture on a kitchen table is fine as long as I can read it.
You've already seen your estimate. I check the page count against your document and reply with the firm price and the invoice, usually within a couple of hours during business hours. Nothing owed until then, and the price doesn't move after you've paid.
Card, straight from the invoice. The clock starts the next business day, so an order paid in the morning buys you a day.
Translation and signed certificate as a PDF. Two to four business days for one to four pages. Up against a filing date? Tell me the date up front and I'll tell you straight whether I can hit it.
Every language, every page, same price. Certificate of Translation included.
$5 for each additional document on the same order. In person or online. Not needed for USCIS — and already covered if you're getting an apostille.
Notarization included. $75 each additional document on the same order. Hand-carried to the Secretary of State in Boise. Idaho documents; a document from another state adds that state's fee and return shipping, quoted before you pay.
Spanish, Arabic, Somali, Ukrainian, Russian, Portuguese, French, Haitian Creole, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Korean, Bosnian, Swahili, Nepali, Farsi, Amharic, Tigrinya, Hindi, Urdu — and about a hundred more. If you don't see yours, ask. It's almost certainly covered.
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Every translation comes with a signed Certificate of Translation prepared to meet USCIS requirements — that's the certification their forms are asking for. What I can't do is promise you an outcome: USCIS decides your case, not me, and a filing can be rejected for reasons that have nothing to do with the translation. If they ever come back with a problem that is the translation's fault, tell me and I'll get it corrected.
For USCIS, no. A certified translation stands on its own and adding a notary changes nothing about how they treat it. Some courts, schools and foreign consulates do ask for notarization on top. If yours does, I'm a commissioned Idaho notary and I'll handle it in the same order — that's $40 for the first document and $5 for each additional document on the same order, in person or online, whichever suits you. One exception worth knowing: if the document is also getting an apostille, the notarization is already included in the apostille price. Don't pay for it twice, and tell me where the document is going so I can make sure you don't.
No. A clear photo or scan is all I need, and you keep your original where it belongs. Nobody should be mailing an original birth certificate anywhere if they can avoid it.
Two to four business days for one to four pages, three to five for five to eight. The clock starts the business day after you pay the invoice, not the same day — so getting it paid in the morning genuinely buys you time. If you're against a filing date, put it on the form and I'll tell you up front whether it works.
Up to 225 words. A birth certificate, a marriage certificate, a police check — those are one page each, comfortably. Where it gets tight is dense documents like academic transcripts or court filings, where one sheet of paper can hold two or three pages' worth of words. I check that when I confirm your order and tell you before you pay.
Exactly how you tell me to spell it. There's usually more than one defensible way to write a name in English, and if the translation spells it one way and your passport spells it another, that mismatch is the single most common reason a filing gets sent back. Put the passport spelling in the form and it's a non-issue.
No, and I'd rather say so plainly. I run your document through a professional certified translation service with native speakers in over a hundred languages. What I do is everything around it: quote it, make sure the right certification is attached, notarize it if you need that, hand-carry the apostille to the Secretary of State if it's going overseas, and stay on it until you have what you need. One person to deal with instead of four.
Some countries don't recognise a US certified translation. They require a translator who's registered with their own government — Mexico, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, France and Poland among them. That's a sworn translation. The upside is it needs no notarization and no apostille; it's valid the moment it's issued. Tell me which country the document is going to and I'll tell you which one you need.
Yes, and that's usually the reason people call me rather than a translation website. Idaho apostille is $199 for the first document and $75 for each one after that on the same order, hand-carried to the Secretary of State in Boise. Notarization is included in that price, so there's no $40 add-on when you're apostilling. If a foreign-language document needs an apostille, it has to be translated into English first — so doing both in one order saves a round trip. One thing to know: those prices are for documents issued or notarized in Idaho. If yours is from another state, it goes to that state's Secretary of State instead, which adds that state's fee and return shipping. I'll quote the difference before you pay.
Idaho native, based in Meridian, notary public since 2018, and I've walked more than 4,500 signings to the finish line. You can call the number on this page and get me, not a call centre.
If you're up against a filing deadline, call — that's the fastest way to get it moving today.
(208) 826-1210