Russian translation for US embassy in Moscow

[Two_Idiots 0]

Threads on this site from 2013 and earlier indicate that you can translate birth and police certificates yourself if you certify that you are competent to make a translation with your signature. No additional notarization, etc. required. Can someone provide more recent experience that this is still true at the US embassy in Moscow?

[baron555 934]

Yes, email the Embassy if you like.

[redleg627 15]

just finished this process.. Below is a link that can answer your questions. Keep in mind though.. after K-1 Visa you have AOS. Some documents will need to be translated anyways for AOS. My financee and I found it cheaper to have documents translated in Moscow than in America.

http://moscow.usembassy.gov/iv-fiancee.html

[Dashinka 24,655]

My wife (fiance at the time) had some documents translated in Russia prior to our K1 package. I am not sure how much it cost, but it did seem to take up to two weeks for the certified translations. For our AOS we had to have a few more documents translated, and I found a good service here in Detroit. Each document cost $65, but they turned them around in one business day.

My advice is to have all documents done i advance, birth certificates (fiance/spouse, and any children), divorce certificates, etc. Then make several copies as you will want to make sure you have them for all the forms.

[Hollyday 122]

Threads on this site from 2013 and earlier indicate that you can translate birth and police certificates yourself if you certify that you are competent to make a translation with your signature. No additional notarization, etc. required. Can someone provide more recent experience that this is still true at the US embassy in Moscow?

I translated those for myself, worked perfectly fine. Interview was in May'14 so experience is a little outdated, but i don't expect it to change much in this regard.

[vbtwo 54]

Translated my wife's birth certificate myself for AOS and it worked just fine. If you know both Russian and English, there's no need to pay anybody for translations. They do not need any "official" translations, the certified part refers just to a statement on the bottom that the person translating himself certifies that he knows both languages and that the translation is accurate.