Certified translation
Spanish certified translation for USCIS
Every message translated beside the original, with the Certificate of Translation Accuracy that 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) asks for. Spanish is written in Latin and runs left to right, and 12 regional varieties are recorded under it separately.
- Writing system
- Latin
- Direction
- Left to right
- Spoken in
- 4 countries
- Varieties recorded
- 12
- Measured quality
- chrF 0.55 against a public corpus
Where Spanish is spoken
What to call yours
Clients rarely say “Spanish”. They say the name they grew up with, and it usually resolves the script, the vocabulary and sometimes the direction in one word. These are recorded separately so nobody has to know which language their own dialect is filed under.
| Variety | Script | Direction | Spoken in | What a translator needs to know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andalusian | Latin | Left to right | Spain (Andalusia) | Southern Spain. |
| Argentine Spanish | Latin | Left to right | Argentina | Rioplatense; voseo. |
| Canarian | Latin | Left to right | Spain (Canary Islands) | Canary Islands. |
| Colombian Spanish | Latin | Left to right | Colombia | — |
| Cuban Spanish | Latin | Left to right | Cuba | — |
| Dominican Spanish | Latin | Left to right | Dominican Republic | — |
| Guatemalan Spanish | Latin | Left to right | Guatemala | — |
| Honduran Spanish | Latin | Left to right | Honduras | — |
| Mexican Spanish | Latin | Left to right | Mexico | — |
| Puerto Rican Spanish | Latin | Left to right | Puerto Rico | — |
| Salvadoran Spanish | Latin | Left to right | El Salvador | — |
| Venezuelan Spanish | Latin | Left to right | Venezuela | — |
What USCIS actually requires
8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) is the whole of it: a full English translation, certified by the translator as complete and accurate, together with their certification that they are competent to translate from Spanish into English.
There is no approved-translator list, no credential requirement and no notarisation mandate — notarisation attests to a signature, not to accuracy. Summaries are not permitted at all, which is why a Spanish chat exhibit is produced message by message however long the conversation runs. What “USCIS approved” actually means.
What it costs
One record is $499, certified, whatever its length — a four-year conversation costs what a four-month one costs. Agencies commonly charge by the page and define a page as 250 words, which is survivable for a birth certificate and ruinous for a chat export. The arithmetic on 100 pages.
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Spanish is one of 167 languages across 26 writing systems. The full list, and all 98 regional varieties, is on the languages page and in the variety table.