USCIS Certified Translation for Boston, MA
The Boston field office, with Lawrence covering part of the region, serves a metro whose Portuguese-language document flow draws on three separate national systems — Brazil, Portugal and Cape Verde — plus substantial Haitian, Dominican and Chinese volumes.
All translations meet the 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) standard.
Filing details for Boston
- USCIS field office
- Boston Field Office
- Immigration court
- Boston Immigration Court
- USCIS field offices in this state include
- Boston, Lawrence
We serve Boston remotely from our office in Edgewater, New Jersey. We have no office here.
Three Portuguese-language registries
They are not interchangeable, and naming the wrong one in a translation is a real inaccuracy.
Brazil issues certidões through cartórios de registro civil — privately operated registries acting under state delegation, with a standardised national format since 2010.
Portugal issues through a conservatória do registo civil, a state office, and has moved substantially to electronic certificates with online verification codes.
Cape Verde operates its own national civil registry with forms and naming conventions shaped by both Portuguese practice and local usage.
Cape Verdean naming in particular can produce several surname orderings for one person across a family's documents, which needs to survive into the translation rather than being tidied up.
Academic documents in immigration filings
Boston filings more often than most include academic credentials, because so many applicants arrived as students. Degree certificates and transcripts in an immigration packet are translated in full, including the grading scale.
We do not convert grades to US equivalents. Where the filing also requires a credential evaluation, the evaluator makes that determination from the translated scale.
Délai
24 hours standard, 1-3 hours available
Price
$49 first page, then $0.12/word. Details
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Questions fréquemment posées
Are Brazilian, Portuguese and Cape Verdean certificates the same?
No. Different issuing institutions, different formats. The translation names the actual authority.
My family documents order surnames differently. What do you do?
Each document is translated as it reads. Harmonising them would misrepresent the sources; reconciliation is for the adjudicator.
Which USCIS office serves Boston?
Boston, with Lawrence covering part of the region. Your appointment notice confirms which.
Do you have a Boston office?
No. Our only office is in Edgewater, New Jersey.
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