Certified French Translation Services

We provide certified French to English and English to French translation for documents that must be accepted by US agencies, courts, universities and licensing boards. Every translation carries a signed certificate of accuracy from a State Court Certified Translator.

French is spoken in dozens of jurisdictions with unrelated document systems

A French acte de naissance from a mairie, a Quebec certificate from the Directeur de l'état civil, a Haitian record from the Archives Nationales and a document from Senegal or Côte d'Ivoire share a language and almost nothing else. Layouts, issuing authorities, security features and what counts as a valid recent copy all differ.

France in particular treats recency as substantive: many French administrative processes require an acte issued within the last three or six months, because the extract is understood as a current statement of civil status rather than a historical certificate. A perfectly accurate translation of an old extract can still be refused for that reason alone — which is a document problem, not a translation problem, and worth knowing before you pay for anything.

The livret de famille is not a birth certificate

The livret de famille is a booklet recording a household — marriage, children, and later events — across multiple pages. It is genuinely useful, but it is not an extract of a single birth entry, and a reviewer expecting a birth certificate may not accept it as one. When we translate a livret we translate the pages that carry entries, including later annotations, so what the document does and does not establish is visible.