Certified Translation Services in Pittsburgh, PA

Graduate admissions and employment petitions need the same core set: degree certificate, complete transcript with grading scale, and often a syllabus or course description for a professional evaluation. The scale and any credit-system notes are the part most often missing when documents arrive, and a translation without them is incomplete.

Carnegie Mellon and Pitt both draw heavily from China, India, South Korea and Turkey. Turkish transcripts use a system with its own grade bands, and the dotted and dotless i in Turkish orthography are distinct letters — flattening both to a plain "i" can change a name against the passport.

The Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas receives translated evidence; the Department of Court Records holds marriage records.

Turkish universities issue transcripts with a grading scale and often a separate diploma supplement. Both are translated.

Chinese institutions issue graduation certificates and degree certificates as two separate documents, and evaluators want both. People commonly send only one and have to resubmit.