Certified Foreign Document Translation by Country and Region

Documents from any country. We translate civil, academic, medical, and legal documents from more than 100 languages, covering South Asia, the Middle East, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Two regions have dedicated pages because their documents are distinctive: Pakistani documents and Bangladeshi documents.

Yes. Right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Urdu, logographic scripts such as Chinese and Japanese, and Bengali and Devanagari are all translated by linguists who work natively in them. Names are transliterated consistently across the document, and where a passport already shows an official transliteration, we follow it.

They do. The same life event produces very differently structured documents in different countries, and the way a document is authenticated also varies. Some countries issue apostilles, others require consular legalization, and a few rely on ministry attestation. The regional table above summarizes the main differences.

Yes. We format translations to the standards of the body receiving them, including USCIS, IRCC, and UKVI. You can see the requirements grouped by destination on our immigration authorities hub.

IRCC requires a translation of any document not in English or French, together with a copy of the original. The translation must come from a certified translator who is a member in good standing of a professional translation association in Canada or abroad, whose seal or stamp shows their membership number, or, if the translator is not certified, it must come with an affidavit sworn before an authorized person. The affidavit route works inside and outside Canada.

The translator can never be you, a family member, or your representative. The official guidance is set out in the IRCC Help Centre. Our IRCC translation page covers the details.

Any document not in English or Welsh must come with a translation that confirms it is an accurate translation of the original, is dated, and gives the translator's full name and signature (or a company official's) and their contact details. For leave to remain and indefinite leave to remain applications, it must also be certified by a qualified translator who states their credentials. This is set out in Immigration Rules Part 1 (paragraph 39B). See our UKVI translation page for more.

Yes, and at no extra charge. If your document carries an apostille or consular legalization, that text is translated alongside the document itself so the full record is readable in English. Only the title of an apostille, "Apostille (Convention de La Haye du 5 octobre 1961)", must be in French. The rest is usually in the language of the issuing country, sometimes with a second language.

The lists above are only our most requested pairs. We cover well over 100 languages and every region, including less common ones, so the safest step is to contact us with your document and language and we will confirm turnaround and price.