Certified Text Message translation
Certified English translations of WhatsApp, SMS, and chat threads — every message with its sender and timestamp, tone and slang intact — backed by a signed Certificate of Accuracy.
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Conversations that became evidence.
The world’s most candid record is the chat thread — which is exactly why courts and immigration officers keep meeting it. Whether the messages show a relationship, a threat, or an agreement, the reader needs them as they happened: in order, attributed, and unpolished.
USCIS relationship evidence
Daily chat is how modern couples document themselves without meaning to. Translated threads across months and years let an officer see the ordinary texture no staged evidence can fake.
Courts and protective orders
Threats, harassment, and admissions arrive as screenshots. Verbatim translations with sender and timestamp per message are what makes them usable — and contestable — as exhibits.
Family and custody matters
Co-parenting disputes run on message history. Chronological, attributed translation keeps the record fair to read and hard to spin.
Business on messaging apps
In much of the world, deals happen on WhatsApp. When they sour, the thread is the contract file — translated precisely, it shows who committed to what.
What gets translated
Message by message, nothing smoothed.
Chat language is compressed, emotional, and full of things that are not words. Translating it as evidence means keeping all of that legible without dressing it up.
Sender and timestamp, every message
Attribution and timing preserved per message — the structure that lets a reader reconstruct the exchange.
Chronology intact
Threads rendered in order, including gaps and bursts; the rhythm of a conversation is often part of what it proves.
Slang and dialect, verbatim
Street language, dialect, and abbreviations translated for meaning with register preserved — and glossed where a court needs the nuance.
Emoji carried across
Kept in place, with bracketed notes where an emoji does argumentative work — a knife emoji in a threat is not decoration.
Voice notes and media
Voice messages transcribed and translated on request; images and forwards noted in position so the thread stays complete.
Cut-off content, flagged
Cropped screenshots and deleted-message markers noted as such — the translation records the thread’s condition honestly.
Before you order
Making chat exhibits that hold up.
Export the chat when you can
WhatsApp and most apps export full threads with timestamps in machine-readable form — cleaner, cheaper, and more complete than screenshots. Screenshots work when export is impossible; capture sender names and times in every frame.
Context protects credibility
A single hostile message cropped from its thread invites the question of what came before. Translating a reasonable window around the key messages usually strengthens rather than dilutes the exhibit — discuss the window with your attorney.
Voice notes need transcription first
Audio messages are transcribed in the original language, then translated, both layers delivered — so the exhibit shows what was said and what it means. Flag voice notes when ordering so they are scoped in.
How it works
Thread to exhibit — in order, certified.
Photograph or scan it
Take a clear photo or scan of your messages 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 of the messages you select, starting at $24.95. Chat is word-light — even long threads often cost less than a single dense document. The exact total shows before you pay.
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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 courts accept translated WhatsApp screenshots?
Certified translations of chat evidence are filed in courts routinely, each exhibit carrying a signed Certificate of Accuracy and each message keeping its sender and timestamp. Authentication of the underlying screenshots is a separate legal question your attorney handles; our part is that the translation layer is unimpeachable.
02The messages are full of slang and inside jokes. How do you translate those?
For meaning, with the register kept — and with bracketed translator’s notes where a term or joke carries weight a literal rendering would lose. Linguists native in the source dialect handle these threads; slang mistranslated by a textbook reader is how chat evidence goes wrong.
03Do you translate the emojis?
Emojis stay in the translation as they appeared. Where one functions as language — a threat, an affirmation, an insult in context — a bracketed note records that function, so the reader is not left guessing at what both parties understood.
04Can you handle messages in two or three languages mixed together?
Yes — multilingual threads are the norm in immigrant families and cross-border relationships. Each message is translated from its actual language, switches are marked, and consistency is kept across the whole thread.
05How is the price calculated?
By word count of what you select — starting at $24.95. Messages are short; hundreds of them still amount to modest word counts, and the itemized total shows before you pay.
06Is the content kept private? Some of it is personal.
Completely — encrypted handling, access limited to the assigned linguists, and deletion on request. Intimate or painful content receives no special exposure; it is translated professionally and forgotten by the process.
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Your messages, translated as they were sent.
Upload your exported threads or screenshots and see the exact price and delivery time before you pay — verbatim, attributed, and certified on every exhibit.