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A complete sample, start to finish
The conversation, the bilingual exhibit, the signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy and the provenance page — the whole shape of what arrives. Every name, message and date in it is invented; it contains nobody's correspondence.
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Four pages: the exhibit cover with its counts and its reading instructions, a page of the bilingual transcript in the delivered format, the signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy, and the provenance page that says who did what. It is the document as it is produced, minus sixty-one pages of a conversation that never happened.
1. What arrives from the client
A conversation, in whatever state it is really in — two languages, attachments, a call that happened, a photo with no caption.
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2. What it becomes
Each message in a bubble positioned as it appeared on the handset, with the verbatim original on top and the English beneath it marked EN. Every bubble carries the page of the source screenshot it came from, so any line can be checked against the original image.
The order is the order of the source screenshots, not date order — because that is the order a reader can check them in. Consecutive screenshots of a scrolling conversation are not always captured chronologically, so the date on a message is the date it carries, not its position in a sequence. A timestamp read from a partly covered clock is marked with a dagger; a message cut off by the edge of a screenshot is transcribed as far as it is visible and says so, rather than being completed from guesswork.
| # | When | Original (Spanish) | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-1.001 | 14 Jan 2024 09:12M. Herrera | Buenos días mi amor, ¿ya llegaste al trabajo? | Good morning my love, did you get to work yet? |
| A-1.002 | 14 Jan 2024 09:31J. Okonkwo | Sí, acabo de llegar. Te extraño mucho. | Yes, I just arrived. I miss you a lot. |
| A-1.005 | 14 Jan 2024 20:02— | [Videollamada, 47 minutos] | [Video call, 47 minutes] |
| A-1.006 | 15 Jan 2024 07:48M. Herrera | Ya mandé los papeles del apartamento. Te reenvío el correo. | I already sent the apartment paperwork. I'm forwarding you the email. |
3. Who did what
The distinction that matters, and the one most vendors leave vague: a model drafts, a person reviews and signs. No certificate is signed by software.
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Extraction
Software, deterministically
The export is parsed, not read by a model. Timestamps, speakers, call events and message order come from the file itself, and every row keeps a citation back to the line it came from.
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Translation
A model, glossary-driven
A first-pass translation is drafted line by line against the original, with a fixed glossary for names and terms so the same word is not rendered two ways in one exhibit. Anything the model is unsure of is flagged rather than smoothed over.
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Review
A person
A human reads the translation against the source, works through the flagged lines, and corrects them. No stage both decides and certifies: anything the software cannot judge is escalated to a person.
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Certification
A person, by signature
A Certificate of Translation Accuracy is signed by the human translator, stating the translation is complete and accurate and that they are competent to translate from that language into English. This is the certificate 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) asks for. No model signs anything.
What the certificate says
It states the two things 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) asks for — that the translation is complete and accurate, and that the translator is competent to translate from that language — and it identifies exactly what was translated. It is signed and the translator is named.
It does not say that USCIS will accept anything. Acceptance is the adjudicator's decision, and a certificate that claimed otherwise would be making a promise about somebody else's judgement. Why there is no such thing as an approved translator.
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