Certified Translation Services in San Jose, CA
San Jose's translation demand is employment-driven to an unusual degree. Silicon Valley runs a continuous pipeline of H-1B petitions, PERM applications and employment-based green cards, and every one of them turns on a foreign degree certificate and transcript being rendered precisely enough that an adjudicator can assess equivalence.
Alongside that sits the largest Vietnamese community outside Vietnam, with its own body of civil records, many of them reissued or reconstructed after 1975.
Filing details for San Jose
- County
- Santa Clara County
- State court system
- Superior Court of California
- Apostille authority
- California Secretary of State
We serve San Jose remotely from our office in Edgewater, New Jersey. We have no office here.
Degree equivalence and Vietnamese records
For an H-1B, what matters is whether the beneficiary holds the equivalent of a US bachelor's degree in a specific speciality. The translation has to be exact about the qualification title, the awarding institution and the field — an Indian "Bachelor of Technology" is not a generic "engineering degree", and flattening it invites a Request for Evidence.
Vietnamese documents raise a different issue. Many families hold records reissued after 1975 by authorities that did not exist when the event occurred, or documents from the former Republic of Vietnam. Both are legitimate; the translation names the issuing authority as printed rather than substituting the current one.
Santa Clara County Superior Court receives translated evidence; the County Clerk-Recorder issues vital records.
Courts and clerks in this area
- Santa Clara County Superior Court
- Santa Clara County Clerk-Recorder
Institutions that commonly request certified translations
- San Jose State University
- Santa Clara University
What an employment filing needs
Degree certificate, full transcript including the grading scale, and where applicable professional licences or membership certificates. Each translated completely, each with its own certificate of accuracy.
Multi-document sets are quoted as one job: the $49 minimum applies once, and everything beyond the first page is $0.12 per word.
Bearbeitungszeit
24 hours standard, 1-3 hours available
Price
$49 first page, then $0.12/word. Details
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Häufig gestellte Fragen
Do you translate degree certificates for H-1B petitions?
Yes, with the exact qualification title, institution and field of study preserved rather than generalised.
Do you determine US degree equivalence?
No. That is credential evaluation, done by agencies such as WES, or assessed by the adjudicator. We render what the document says.
Can you translate pre-1975 Vietnamese documents?
Yes. The issuing authority is named as it appears on the document rather than replaced with a modern equivalent.
How are multi-document sets priced?
As one job. $49 for the first page, then $0.12 per word across the set.
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