Document Translation Services — Certified, Professional, and Accepted Worldwide

Do You Need Certified Translation or Professional Translation?

The first question every document translation buyer should answer — because it determines exactly which service you need and which authorities will accept the result.

Professional document translation. An accurate, complete translation by a qualified professional translator. Accepted for business use, internal company documents, personal reference, and many official purposes where certification is not specifically required.

Certified document translation. A professional translation accompanied by a signed Translation Accuracy Certificate — a formal statement by the translator certifying their competency and the translation's completeness and accuracy. Required by:

• USCIS for all foreign-language documents in immigration applications (8 CFR 103.2(b)(3))
• US embassies and consulates for visa applications
• US courts and state legal proceedings for foreign-language evidence
• US universities for international student admissions
• Credential evaluation organizations (WES, ECE, NACES members) for foreign degree evaluation
• Most foreign official authorities for foreign documents submitted to their jurisdiction

The simple rule: If you are submitting to a government office, court, embassy, or university — choose certified translation. TheWordPoint includes the Translation Accuracy Certificate with all certified translations at no additional cost.

→ USCIS Certified Translation → Immigration Document Translation

Find Your Document Type — Quick Navigation

Personal documents for immigration, visa, and official use. Birth certificates, marriage certificates, divorce certificates, police clearances, immunization records, driver's licenses, bank statements, and financial documents for USCIS immigration applications, visa applications, and official use worldwide. → Personal Document Translation → Birth Certificate Translation 

Academic documents for university admission and credential evaluation. Academic transcripts, diplomas, degree certificates, theses, dissertations, academic textbooks, and research papers for US university admission and for credential evaluation by WES, ECE, and NACES member organizations. → Academic Transcript Translation → Academic Translation Services

Legal documents for court and official legal proceedings. Contracts, agreements, court orders and judgments, powers of attorney, wills and testaments, notarized documents, affidavits, apostille translations, and legal correspondence for court submission and international legal use. → Legal Translation Services → Contract Translation → Apostille Translation

Medical documents for healthcare and insurance. Patient medical records, doctor's letters, prescriptions, diagnostic reports, radiology reports, hospital discharge summaries, and health insurance documentation for overseas healthcare providers or insurance claims. → Medical Translation Services → Healthcare Translation

Business documents for corporate and commercial use. Business contracts, financial statements, employee manuals, safety data sheets, RFPs, and corporate correspondence for international business operations. → Business Translation Services → Financial Translation Services

CV, resume, and career documents. CVs and resumes translated and adapted for international job applications, with country-specific format adaptation and LinkedIn profile translation. → CV Translation Services

Document Translation Prices — Certified Personal Documents

Most personal documents are priced per page for predictable, upfront costs:

Translation Accuracy Certificate included at no additional charge. Longer documents (contracts, medical records, business documents): from $0.06/word. Get a Free Quote for a precise price based on your document.

How to Submit Documents for Translation — Online, Fast, No Physical Original Needed

You do not need to send your original documents. A clear digital scan or photograph is all that is needed — TheWordPoint translates from digital copies. Submit from anywhere in the world.

Accepted submission formats: PDF · JPG · PNG · TIFF · DOCX · DOC · RTF · PPTX · XLSX · TXT

For photographed documents (passports, certificates photographed with a phone), ensure all text is fully legible — all stamps, seals, handwriting, and reference numbers must be visible.

Delivery: Translated documents are delivered digitally by email as PDF, typically within 24–48 hours for standard personal documents. Rush same-day delivery is available for urgent immigration interview appointments, visa appointments, and court deadlines. Hard copy (mailed printed translation with wet signature) available where required by specific authorities.

Document privacy: All documents are handled under strict confidentiality compliant with GDPR. Your documents are never shared with third parties. Even if a family member contacts TheWordPoint requesting a copy of your translated document, it will not be provided without your explicit authorization.

Why Official Documents Require Human Translation — Not Google Translate

USCIS, embassies, and courts specifically exclude machine translation from their accepted certified translation process — a translator must personally certify the translation's accuracy, which requires human judgment and accountability.

Beyond regulatory compliance, machine translation creates specific risks for official documents:

Name and date errors: Machine translation of names (especially from non-Latin scripts — Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew) frequently produces inconsistent romanizations. A name translated as "Mohammed" in one document and "Muhammad" in another — even if phonetically similar — creates identity discrepancy issues in immigration applications.

Stamp and seal content: Official documents contain stamps and seals with critical information. Machine translation cannot process image-embedded text in scans and may miss or mistranslate this content.

Handwritten fields: Many official documents (birth certificates, marriage certificates) contain handwritten information. Machine translation cannot read handwriting — these fields require human transcription followed by translation.

Legal and official terminology: The precise language of legal documents, court orders, and official certificates has defined meanings. A mistranslated legal term can change the legal effect of the document.

TheWordPoint's document translators are native speakers of the target language with subject-matter expertise appropriate to the document type. A birth certificate from a 1950s Polish civil registry goes to a Polish-language translator with experience in historic official documents. A current UAE medical record goes to an Arabic-to-English medical translator.

How Document Translation Works at TheWordPoint — Five Steps

• Determine certified or professional. USCIS, embassy, court, or university → certified. Business or personal reference → professional.
• Submit your document scan. Upload at thewordpoint.com/free-quote. Specify document type, source language, target language, intended authority, and delivery deadline.
• Translation by a qualified native speaker. Document translated preserving all information exactly — names, dates, stamps, seals, reference numbers, and handwritten fields — in the target language.
• Proofreading and QA. Second native-speaker reviewer checks accuracy, completeness, and formatting against the original.
• Certified delivery. Translated document and Translation Accuracy Certificate delivered digitally within 24–48 hours (standard) or same-day (rush).

Reviewed and updated  on August 24, 2026, by

Christakis Christodoulou,
Managing Director
Head of the Certified Translation Department