Certified Passport translation
A certified English translation of your passport — the bio page for identity, or every stamped page when travel history matters — backed by a signed Certificate of Accuracy. Most orders are ready within 24 hours.
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The document every office reads first.
A passport is the anchor identity document in almost any cross-border file: everything else gets checked against it. When the passport itself is in another language, its translation becomes the reference point — which is why the spellings on it have to be handled with unusual care.
USCIS and immigration
Petitions and applications use the passport to fix identity, nationality, and validity dates. Officers compare every other document’s names against it, so the translation is the spelling standard for the whole file.
Courts and legal matters
Identity in litigation, estate claims, and guardianship often rests on a foreign passport. A certified translation puts its particulars into the record in a form the clerk can accept.
Banks and institutions
Account opening, property purchases, and compliance checks ask for identity documents in English. A certified translation of the bio page answers the request without surrendering your original.
Universities and employers
Admissions and HR verify identity and match records issued under transliterated names. The passport translation is what ties a diploma in one spelling to the person in front of them.
What gets translated
Small document, dense with detail.
A passport page packs more regulated detail per square inch than almost any other document. The translation accounts for all of it — and is honest about the parts that are codes rather than language.
Names as the state wrote them
Surname and given names exactly as issued, with translator’s notes where national spelling and common usage diverge.
Numbers and validity dates
Passport number, issue and expiry dates, and issuing authority carried across without deviation.
The machine-readable zone
The MRZ is a code, not prose — it is reproduced as printed and noted as machine-readable, never “translated” into something it is not.
Stamps and visas
Entry and exit stamps, visa labels, and extension stickers translated in place when your case needs the full booklet.
Observations and endorsements
The observations page — name changes, restrictions, amendments — translated completely; it exists precisely because it modifies the rest.
Faded stamps, flagged
Border stamps blur and fade. Anything unreadable is marked illegible in position rather than reconstructed from guesswork.
Before you order
Bio page or full booklet — scope it to your case.
Most filings need only the bio page. Some turn on where you were and when — and then every stamp becomes evidence. Deciding this before you order is the difference between paying for two pages and paying for forty.
Bio page only
Most filingsThe standard scope for identity purposes: petitions, banks, universities. If nobody asked for your travel history, this is almost certainly the order.
Full booklet with stamps
When history mattersOrdered when the case turns on where you were: continuous-presence claims, asylum timelines, disputes. Word-count pricing means empty pages cost nothing.
Unsure which scope your receiver expects? Ask them before you order — and if the answer is “just identity,” the bio page is the answer.
How it works
Photo to filing-ready — usually overnight.
Photograph or scan it
Take a clear photo or scan of your passport and upload it. The word count and the exact total show before you pay — no account needed.
A specialist linguist takes it
Your file goes to a native speaker who works with this document type every week and knows its stamps, layouts, and abbreviations on sight.
Reviewed, then certified
A second linguist checks names, dates, numbers, and layout against the original. Only then is the Certificate of Accuracy signed.
Delivered as one PDF
Translation, certificate, and a copy of the source in a single file — ready to attach to your filing or forward to whoever asked for it.
Pricing is by word count. A bio page sits at the starting price of $24.95; a full booklet costs exactly what its stamps and visas add up to, and the total shows before you pay.
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Every language and every document type in this family links to its own dedicated page. Priced by word count, both directions, with 24-hour options.
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FAQ
The questions that actually come up.
The ones we hear most often, answered by our dispatch and project-management teams.
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01Will USCIS accept your passport translation?
Yes. It is delivered as a complete English translation of the pages you order with a signed Certificate of Accuracy — the standard for foreign-language evidence. For identity purposes the bio page is normally what a filing uses; if an officer has asked for more, order the pages they named.
02Do you translate the machine-readable zone at the bottom of the bio page?
We reproduce it exactly as printed and label it as the machine-readable zone. It is an encoding, not a sentence — a translation that pretends otherwise is wrong on its face, and reviewers know it. The human-readable fields above it carry the same information in translatable form.
03My name is spelled one way in my passport and another way on my birth certificate.
Both documents are translated as issued — we never harmonize spellings silently. Tell us both versions when you order and we will add a translator’s note recording that they are romanizations of the same source-script name, which is exactly the explanation a reviewer needs to see.
04My passport has stamps in several languages. Can one order cover them?
Yes. Booklets collect stamps in whatever languages the borders spoke. Each is translated by a linguist for its language under one order, with the certificate covering the complete work.
05How is the price calculated?
By word count. A bio page stays at the starting price of $24.95; for a full booklet we count what is actually stamped and written, and the exact total shows before you pay. Blank pages are free because they contain nothing to translate.
06Is it safe to upload my passport?
Files are transferred and stored encrypted, access is limited to the linguists working your order, and we never publish or share client documents. If you want the file deleted after delivery, say so and we will confirm the deletion.
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Your passport, certified and ready wherever it’s asked for.
Upload the pages you need and see the exact price and delivery time before you pay — bio pages are usually back within 24 hours. A signed Certificate of Accuracy on every order.