Do emails and chats need to be translated?

[cardinal 1]

Do we need to translate emails or chats submitted with the petition or brought to the interview? Almost everything we have is in french...(I am fluent)

[TBoneTX 45,273]

Do we need to translate emails or chats submitted with the petition or brought to the interview? Almost everything we have is in french...(I am fluent)

Anything that you want USCIS (petition phase) to read or consider must be translated into English. Fortunately, USCIS won't care about this "secondary" material. You can put a note atop the foreign-language stuff and say something like "USCIS: These are e-mails and chats between Petitioner and Beneficiary, in French. Please pass them to the Embassy (consulate) along with whatever else you send there."

If French is an official language of Burkina Faso, you shouldn't need translations (consular phase). Consult the Embassy website, or ask by e-mail.

The drawback to not translating these items for USCIS is that you sacrifice the benefit of "the Embassy can't disregard this material, because the consular officials know that USCIS has seen it."

Others will chime in here.

Edited March 2, 2011 by TBoneTX

[Claudia2010 1]

i sent all my emails in spanish and didnt have any problems..I think is anything like an official documents needs to be translated and notarized..like in my case i sent in my fiance birth certificate..good luck

[pushbrk 12,877]

i sent all my emails in spanish and didnt have any problems..I think is anything like an official documents needs to be translated and notarized..like in my case i sent in my fiance birth certificate..good luck

That's correct. USCIS won't read your foreign language chats and emails. They may even discard them as superfluous. Make sure you take to the interview anything in French, you want the Consular officer to consider.

[Channah&Aaron 51]

; They don't really care what yall are talking about, I think, in my opinion, the dates stated when the conversations took place (ongoing relationship) are more important than the conversation itself.