Translation

[Elena75 0]

Hello, My fiance and I are just getting ready to send off our petition but we are waiting on this one thing. He is in the Netherlands and needs to get his bank statements translated. I have paged through my phone book for translators but have found none. Does anyone have any experience with this? Did you use someone local to you or did you use someone online. Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Elena

Edited January 5, 2007 by Elena75

[David -n- Yuxuan 0]

Hello, My fiance and I are just getting ready to send off our petition but we are waiting on this one thing. He is in the Netherlands and needs to get his bank statements translated. I have paged through my phone book for translators but have found none. Does anyone have any experience with this? Did you use someone local to you or did you use someone online. Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Elena

I had to do the same thing for some receipts and travel documents from Turkey and Germany. I did a search on the Internet and found something through the local yellow pages, for myself that is. I also did a search for you and found several in the Chicago Illinois area. I used Chicago arbitrarily, but you can type in whatever city you want. Here is the link that I copied from my search:

http://yellowpages.superpages.com/listings...;search=Find+It

Paste this in your browser and you should get the same results as I did. You can also go to google or yahoo and type in "translation services in Illinois" you will get a lot of hits!

Also, you can just about send your documents to any company in the US, or world for that matter, that do translation services. They will normally translate your documents withing a day or two and send them back to you right away. Because my translation service was in the area, it took only 3 days.

I hope this helps.

[David -n- Yuxuan 0]

Hello, My fiance and I are just getting ready to send off our petition but we are waiting on this one thing. He is in the Netherlands and needs to get his bank statements translated. I have paged through my phone book for translators but have found none. Does anyone have any experience with this? Did you use someone local to you or did you use someone online. Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Elena

Wow, I just realized that your fiance is from the Netherlands! If you look at our picture, you will see the bus for the Netherland soccer team. They were playing in Stuttgart for the World Cup 2006. We were living there at the time and someone took our picture right in front of the bus!

[Barry2005 0]

You need his banks statements? I thought you were the American citizen.

[yassmine2878 1]

If Im not mistaken, you can do self-translation. As I recall I had a smiliar question for USCIS when we were getting ready to file and I called them about it. They said as long as the person doing the translation signs a letter stating that they are fluent in the language and English, its a correct translation, blah blah then its all good. They rule may have changed since we filed, but it might be a good idea to go do a little digging in the guides or the USCIS website. Translation services can be expensive and you might be able to save some dough by DIY. And of course, if I am wrong someone please speak up because I dont want to be the voice of misdirection

[Detty2809 0]

Ya....i am a bit confused here... Elena is the USC? What's her fiance's bank statement for?

[SoL. 0]

Hi Elena!

If you are the USC, I don't think that you would need to submit his bank statements for the 129F petition. They are not necessary unless you are trying to provide some supporting evidence of your relationship... You may need bank statements for the I-134 affidavit of support, but they should be your statements, not his.

But if you still need the translator, any person that certifies on writing that is fluent should be OK.

Good luck! My fiancé is from NL too!

edi

Edited January 5, 2007 by Sol-de-Verano

[Elena75 0]

I'm sorry, I didn't make myself clear. I am providing them as evidence with the petition.

I will do some more digging on the immigration site about translation.

Thanks everyone!

Elena

Hi Elena!

If you are the USC, I don't think that you would need to submit his bank statements for the 129F petition. They are not necessary unless you are trying to provide some supporting evidence of your relationship... You may need bank statements for the I-134 affidavit of support, but they should be your statements, not his.

But if you still need the translator, any person that certifies on writing that is fluent should be OK.

Good luck! My fiancé is from NL too!

edi

[Thijs 0]

Thanks everyone. I'm Elena's fiance.

We're lucky to have found this board; lots of useful information here.

Elena already stated it, but they want to see the evidence that I was in fact in her town to see her. The bank statements show the date, time and place where I withdrew money from ATM machines. I still have the ATM-receipts, but those receipts don't show my name, and only the last 4 digits of my account number.

Thanks for the help, now I can get started on translating them.

[Barry2005 0]

If Im not mistaken, you can do self-translation. As I recall I had a smiliar question for USCIS when we were getting ready to file and I called them about it. They said as long as the person doing the translation signs a letter stating that they are fluent in the language and English, its a correct translation, blah blah then its all good. They rule may have changed since we filed, but it might be a good idea to go do a little digging in the guides or the USCIS website. Translation services can be expensive and you might be able to save some dough by DIY. And of course, if I am wrong someone please speak up because I dont want to be the voice of misdirection

My lawyer/staff advised me anyone fluent can translate it, but said not to use family members.

[yassmine2878 1]

Thanks everyone. I'm Elena's fiance.

We're lucky to have found this board; lots of useful information here.

Elena already stated it, but they want to see the evidence that I was in fact in her town to see her. The bank statements show the date, time and place where I withdrew money from ATM machines. I still have the ATM-receipts, but those receipts don't show my name, and only the last 4 digits of my account number.

Thanks for the help, now I can get started on translating them.

Its a good idea, IMO, to use bank statements. I included copies of my bank statements to show specific purchases in Rabat, in our petition. Best of luck for a speedy approval!

[Mel 0]

Hi Elena! My fiance too is a Netherlands native. He found someone there in his country to do the translations. I had the same problem when we first began too as I was searching for someone here. He uses a lady there (I can get her info if you would like) and she has had everything returned to him the next day. We chose to have an individual do it that was certified in doing so just in case there was ever a question about anything.

Best wishes,

Mel

[Alex+R 0]

Thijs--you can just do them yourself. There is a form you fill out and include with the translation that you can find on VJ (someone wanna dig it up?). Obviously your English is good enough for it.

ETA: I know this has been said, just want to add some confirmation from someone who has in fact done this for USCIS.

Edited January 7, 2007 by Alex+R