Translation

[Anisa 0]

Can you translate your own emails or snail mail or do you need a translater to do that?? I'm fluent in both languages and i was wondering if i can do my own translating. Do they also have to be nautorized??

Thank you for any help that anybody can give me.

[Hell0W0rld 10]

Can you translate your own emails or snail mail or do you need a translater to do that?? I'm fluent in both languages and i was wondering if i can do my own translating. Do they also have to be nautorized??

Thank you for any help that anybody can give me.

It needs to be officially translated and notarized by the translation company...

[Jasman0717 9]

You can translate

[Anisa 0]

which one is it yes or no?? I have to send them to Vermont.

[Hell0W0rld 10]

You can translate

Per the instruction

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-129Finstr.pdf

Translations. Any document containing foreign language submitted to the Service shall be accompanied by a full English language translation which the translator has certified as complete and accurate, and by the translator's certification that he or she is competent to translate from the foreign language into English.

[Yoink 7]

You can translate

Per the instruction

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-129Finstr.pdf

Translations. Any document containing foreign language submitted to the Service shall be accompanied by a full English language translation which the translator has certified as complete and accurate, and by the translator's certification that he or she is competent to translate from the foreign language into English.

This doesn't imply a professional translation. You can translate the pages yourself and write a seperate sheet stating that you are fluent in both languages and the translation is "complete and accurate"

[2xHollyx2 3]

I translated my birth certificate and I wrote the following on the bottom:

I, [name], HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I AM A COMPETENT TRANSLATOR AND THAT TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY, THE FOREGOING PRESENTS A TRUE AND FAITHFUL TRANSLATION OF THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT, “BIRTH CERTIFICATE”, FROM THE [your language] LANGUAGE TO ENGLISH.

____________________________ ________________

Translator’s Signature Date

I printed it and went to the bank to get it notarized where I had to sign it.

[Anisa 0]

Do you need to have the emails and letters nautorized?? Thank you for all your help.

[pushbrk 13,166]

Can you translate your own emails or snail mail or do you need a translater to do that?? I'm fluent in both languages and i was wondering if i can do my own translating. Do they also have to be nautorized??

Thank you for any help that anybody can give me.

If you're going to submit emails, yes you can translate them and certify your ability to do so. However, there is really no need to submit foreign language emails with your petition. They don't prove your identity, that you are free to marry, that one of you is a US Citizen or that you met in person during the past two years. What the do is show evidence you communicate regularly. This is of little if any use to USCIS when adjudicating the petition. Emails can be very useful in evaluating whether a relationship is bona fide but USCIS is not concerned with that during the petition stage. The Consular officer will be concerned about it, so my advice is to save the emails for the interview where there will BE no need to translate them.

What needs to be translated for USCIS at petition stage are things like birth certificates, divorce certificates etc. My advice is to get them translated in a way the Consulate will eventually accept, so they only need to be translated once.

Can you translate your own emails or snail mail or do you need a translater to do that?? I'm fluent in both languages and i was wondering if i can do my own translating. Do they also have to be nautorized??

Thank you for any help that anybody can give me.

It needs to be officially translated and notarized by the translation company...

No, they don't, although it may be a good idea for some kinds of documents depending on the original language. Certainly for Chinese official documents, they need to be translated by a Chinese Notarial Office (Gong Zheng Chu) but emails are an entirely different matter altogether.

Edited January 26, 2009 by pushbrk

[bora bora 1]

The only thing that has to be notarized is the I-134. A friend of mine translated my e-mails/letters and I translated hers (to be safe) and we included affidavits that we are fluent in both languages.

The only thing that I had professionally translated was my husband's birth certificate, which we had done in Brasil for a cheap price. I just opened the phone book and called the first guy I saw.

[NanaBerti 0]

Hello Everybody!

So, just to be safe, IT IS OK if I ask a friend of mine to translate the docs, as long as she includes the sentence confirming that she is fluent in both languages at the end, and THEN she takes the docs to the bank ang get a notary to sign everything?

Oh mine... I do not want to file my forms and have something returned because something is missing/wrong. I want to do it wright on the first time!!!

Did ANY of you did the translations that way with success?

Thank you so much!