Certified Translation Services in Queens, NY
Queens is routinely described as the most linguistically diverse place on earth, and whatever the exact ranking, the practical consequence is real: there is no "typical" Queens document. In a normal week the borough sends us Bengali, Spanish, Mandarin, Korean, Greek, Punjabi, Tagalog and Uzbek records, and each carries its own registry conventions.
The USCIS field office at 2735 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City serves much of the borough, and a large share of Queens work is filed there.
Filing details for Queens
- County
- Queens County
- State court system
- New York State Unified Court System
- Apostille authority
- New York Department of State, Division of Licensing Services
We serve Queens remotely from our office in Edgewater, New Jersey. We have no office here.
One borough, a hundred registry systems
The reason a broad translator panel matters more here than anywhere else is that registry formats are not interchangeable. A Bangladeshi birth registration certificate, a Chinese hukou household register, a Greek lixiarchiki praxi and a Filipino PSA birth certificate are four completely different instruments. Translating any of them as a generic "birth certificate" loses the information that makes the document verifiable.
Queens County Supreme Court in Jamaica handles the civil and matrimonial side, and the Queens County Clerk issues notary authentications for the apostille chain. Queens College, St. John's and LaGuardia Community College generate the academic transcript work.
Courts and clerks in this area
- Queens County Supreme Court
- Queens County Clerk
Institutions that commonly request certified translations
- Queens College (CUNY)
- St. John's University
- LaGuardia Community College
Documents for a Long Island City appointment
Bring the foreign original and the certified English translation together. The officer will compare them.
If any page of the document is blank or contains only a seal, it still gets translated — the translation should account for every page of the source, and a note that a page bears only an official seal is itself part of a complete translation.
Bearbeitungszeit
24 hours standard, 1-3 hours available
Price
$49 first page, then $0.12/word. Details
Sprachen
100+ languages. See all
Häufig gestellte Fragen
Do you translate Chinese hukou household registers?
Yes, as household registers rather than as birth certificates, because they are a different instrument and USCIS treats them differently.
What about PSA documents from the Philippines?
Yes. PSA-issued certificates are translated with the security features and registry references preserved.
Is a translation needed if the document is already partly in English?
Yes, if any part of it is in another language. USCIS requires a complete English translation of the whole document, not just the non-English parts in isolation.
How much for several documents?
$49 covers the first page up to 250 words; everything after that is $0.12 per word. Upload them all together for a single quote.
Documents we translate most often
Language pages
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