Can someone recommend us a translation agency?

[Ighaepero 2]

Hello once again to the China subforum and best of luck to those of you still going through the process!

I need to translate my wife's high school diploma for her to apply to university here in the States. The uni says it must be done by an actual translation agency, so we can't do it ourselves.

The diploma is a little booklet with four pages, you'd think it would be easy to find someone to do it on the fly, but one agency I found wants to charge me $85 to translate a couple of sentences.

I've been looking everywhere without much luck. Has anyone here worked with any translation agencies that work quickly and have reasonable prices (we are NOT translating a land buying agreement here)? If so, we appreciate you pointing us to them.

Thanks in advance.

[CowBoE 429]

Hello once again to the China subforum and best of luck to those of you still going through the process!

I need to translate my wife's high school diploma for her to apply to university here in the States. The uni says it must be done by an actual translation agency, so we can't do it ourselves.

The diploma is a little booklet with four pages, you'd think it would be easy to find someone to do it on the fly, but one agency I found wants to charge me $85 to translate a couple of sentences.

I've been looking everywhere without much luck. Has anyone here worked with any translation agencies that work quickly and have reasonable prices (we are NOT translating a land buying agreement here)? If so, we appreciate you pointing us to them.

Thanks in advance.

Unless you are considering local community college,

I think most 4 year colleges in US would require full transcript

and not just the diploma.

You might want to look into the admission requirements of desired US colleges first.

It might be cheaper and easier to get into 2 year junior college,

and then after 2 years, transfer to the 4 year college.

Looks like on Internet ~$25 per page is about the going rate.

She might be able to find cheaper translation service in China.

I think my wife had her Chinese college diploma translated for about 200 yuan...I can check later.

[Sam and Fen 41]

Take a look at wes.org

[Miter 10]

I used foreigndocumenttranslation.com to translate several Chinese documents to English and they were quick, professional, and reasonably priced.

[Ighaepero 2]

Thank you very much for the pointers. I've saved the links for future reference.

Turns out we found a translation agency in Chinatown, tucked away inside a rickety old building, in a small, cramped little office. But they did the job quickly and professionally for $25. Finding it was a fun little adventure all by itself.

DualityOneness, you're right, we need high school transcripts as well. Those came already translated from the school.

Thank you again, everyone.

[Mike and Yaoling 46]

I have also used http://www.foreigndocumenttranslation.com/

For Chinese documents. They are great and send you personal emails anytime 7 days a week if you have questions. They are super nice.

[Pitaya 2,577]

My wife had everything, birth cert,, divorce decrees, school transcripts, etc, translated in White Book format. We have yet to have any issues upon presentation of the White Book in the US.

YMMV.

[jamessteves 0]

I have worked with a number of translation service providers. Among all of them, I preferred the services provided by Translation Excellence Inc. They were quite accurate and punctual in submitting their work.

[Mike and Yaoling 46]

I used foreigndocumenttranslation.com to translate several Chinese documents to English and they were quick, professional, and reasonably priced.

I have used this same company several times myself. Very fast, accurate and friendly. They respond quickly and positively to emails as well. Highly recommended.