Certified Translation Services in Boston, MA
No US city concentrates academic credential translation the way Boston does. Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Northeastern, Tufts and BC between them admit tens of thousands of international students, and every foreign transcript in that pipeline needs a certified translation before a credential evaluator will look at it.
Boston also has substantial Brazilian, Haitian, Cape Verdean, Dominican and Chinese communities, with a correspondingly broad civil-record load.
Filing details for Boston
- County
- Suffolk County
- State court system
- Massachusetts Trial Court
- Apostille authority
- Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
We serve Boston remotely from our office in Edgewater, New Jersey. We have no office here.
Cape Verdean and Brazilian Portuguese
Boston's Portuguese-language document flow is unusual because it draws from three distinct systems. Brazilian certidões come from private cartórios. Portuguese records come from a conservatória do registo civil. Cape Verdean records come from a national civil registry with its own forms and a naming convention shaped by both Portuguese and West African practice.
A translation that names the wrong kind of issuing office is inaccurate in a way that matters, because the issuing authority is part of how a document is verified.
Massachusetts vital records are issued by city and town clerks and by the Registry of Vital Records. Suffolk County Superior Court and the Boston Immigration Court receive translated evidence.
Courts and clerks in this area
- Suffolk County Superior Court
- Boston City Clerk (vital records)
Institutions that commonly request certified translations
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Boston University
- Northeastern University
Getting a transcript translation right
Send every page including reverses, which usually carry the grading scale and authentication statements. Translate nothing into a US grade equivalent — that is the evaluator's determination.
Where an institution issues its own official English transcript, you may not need a translation at all. Ask the registrar before ordering.
Срок выполнения
24 hours standard, 1-3 hours available
Price
$49 first page, then $0.12/word. Details
Языки
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Часто задаваемые вопросы
Are Brazilian, Portuguese and Cape Verdean records the same?
No. They come from different institutions with different formats, and the translation names the actual issuing authority.
Do you convert foreign grades for WES?
No — evaluators require the scale as printed and do the conversion themselves. A pre-converted translation gets rejected.
Which USCIS office serves Boston?
The Boston field office; Lawrence covers 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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