Certified Translation Services in Chicago, IL

Illinois vital records are county-issued. The Cook County Clerk holds births, deaths and marriages for the county; the Illinois Department of Public Health keeps an index but does not issue the certificates. People who write to Springfield for a Chicago birth certificate lose weeks.

Polish records come in two forms. The abbreviated extract (odpis skrócony) gives basic facts; the full extract (odpis zupełny) includes the complete registry entry with any later annotations — corrections, legitimations, adoptions. US institutions almost always want the full version, and requesting the wrong one from a Polish registry office means waiting again.

The Chicago USCIS field office and the Chicago Immigration Court serve the metro.

Chicago has one of the largest Assyrian communities in the world, and its documents come from Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey — often handwritten, often with Arabic or Syriac script, and often issued by authorities whose administrative structures have changed since.

Name transliteration is the recurring problem. Send us the passport spelling and we will keep the translation consistent with it rather than applying a standard that produces a different result.