USCIS Certified Translation for Seattle, WA

Employment petitions fail on imprecision. An adjudicator assessing whether a foreign degree equals a US bachelor's in a named speciality needs the exact award title, the exact field, the awarding institution and the duration. A generalised translation produces a Request for Evidence that a precise one would not.

Family petitions from East Africa fail on the opposite problem: documents that do not exist. Somali, Eritrean and Ethiopian applicants frequently rely on secondary evidence, and the translation's job is to describe accurately what the document actually is.

Both are handled here, but they are not the same job and should not be approached the same way.

Many employment and adjustment filings require police certificates from countries of prior residence. These are short documents whose entire substance is frequently a single statement that no record exists.

That statement is the content, and it must be rendered precisely — along with the issuing authority, the period covered and any validity limit printed on the certificate. Several countries treat these as valid for a limited period, and that limit belongs in the translation.