Certified Translation Services in Brooklyn, NY

Post-Soviet documents are the Brooklyn specialism. Birth and marriage certificates issued by ZAGS offices across the former USSR are often in Russian regardless of the republic, carry Soviet-era seals from authorities that no longer exist, and use patronymics that have no US equivalent. A translation that drops the patronymic or modernises the issuing authority creates a mismatch against the passport.

Kings County Supreme Court on Adams Street handles the civil and matrimonial filings where translated evidence is needed, and the Kings County Clerk issues the notary authentications that precede a New York apostille. Brooklyn College, Pratt and LIU Brooklyn add the academic credential stream.

A Russian or Ukrainian birth certificate names the person with a given name, a patronymic and a surname. US forms have no patronymic field, so people drop it — and then the translated birth certificate no longer matches the passport, which usually does include it.

We reproduce the name as it appears and note the passport form where you supply it, so an adjudicator can see they are the same person without having to ask.