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Portuguese On-Site Interpretation for Witness Interviews
Court-certified Portuguese interpreters for witness interviews at your office, the witness's workplace or another address you choose. Get your quote in seconds, place your order, and you're all set.
Starting at $92.91
Per hour
Court-certified
Interpreters
HIPAA-aligned
All clinical sessions
Medically credentialed
CCHI and NBCMI certified interpreters
Match
Interpreter matched to the setting
Our dispatcher assigns a court-certified interpreter who works near the interview address, and the name and credentials come to you before the day.
Confirmed in your dashboard and by email
On-site
Interpreter at your venue
The interpreter arrives at the address, meets the interviewer and the witness, and interprets for the hours you booked.
In person, for the booked hours
The price shows before you book. Every session is covered by an NDA; clinical sessions are handled in line with HIPAA.
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Getting Portuguese right
Portuguese interpretation demand includes Brazilian asylum and healthcare matters, construction-site workers' comp and OSHA investigations, Azorean elder-care appointments, Angolan and Mozambican asylum interviews, and consular or citizenship matters.
Typical Portuguese bookings
- Asylum and credible-fear interviews
- OSHA investigations and workers' comp IMEs
- Hospital and OB/GYN appointments
- Family court and custody matters
- Real-estate closings and mortgage applications
- Parent-teacher conferences (MA, FL, NJ)
- Geriatric and hospice care for Azorean-descent communities
- Angolan and Mozambican asylum interviews
- U.S. speakers
- 1.4M+
- Booked most in
- Boston, Newark, Miami
- Varieties
- Brazilian, European
Interview locations
On-site interpreters for witness interviews at homes, workplaces and law offices
The interpreter reports to the address in the booking. Interviews are held in the three places below, and each needs different details.
The witness's home
A witness who cannot come to an office may agree to talk at home. The interpreter reports to that one address, so put the street, the unit number and the parking in the notes.
A workplace
Co-workers and supervisors are interviewed at the workplace. Ask the site how visitors check in, and put the entrance and the name of the person who will meet the interpreter in the notes.
Your law office
A witness who can travel can be interviewed in your own conference room, where the case file is at hand. Give us the suite and the room, and the interpreter sits with the witness there.
In-person interviews
What to know about in-person witness interviews with an interpreter
When you meet in person
An interviewer who wants to sit with the witness books the interpreter to come to the same address. The interview is informal and comes before a deposition or a trial, so it may be held at the witness's home, at work or at an office. In person is also the choice when the witness has no device for a video call. Our dispatcher looks for interpreters closest to the address first.
Who takes part
The interviewer, an attorney or an investigator, asks the questions, and the witness tells what they saw or heard. A paralegal may come along to write down what is said. No oath is taken and no court reporter is present. The interpreter sits with the witness, and the interviewer speaks to the witness directly.
At the table4
- InterviewerAsks the questions, no oath taken
- WitnessTells what they saw or heard
- ParalegalMay write down what is said
- InterpreterSits with the witness
InterviewerInterpreterWitness
The interpreter's role
Each question the interviewer asks is interpreted into the witness's language, and each answer into English, in full. The interpreter speaks in the first person, so what the interviewer writes down is what the witness said. The interpreter is neutral, keeps the interview confidential, and does not prompt the witness, suggest an answer or comment on one.
Face to face
Interviewer asksInterpretedWitness answersInterpreted
One address per booking
The interpreter stays at the address in the booking. A second interview at another address, such as a co-worker at the workplace after a witness at home, is a second booking. Book each interview for its own hours, because unused time is not refunded.
On-site, video or phone
Choosing between on-site, video and phone for a witness interview
An interpreter in person suits an interview held at the witness's place. Video and phone fit the cases below.
On-site
In person suits an interview at the witness's home or workplace, and a witness who is not comfortable on a video call.
Video (VRI)
Video fits an interview with a witness in another city, when the interviewer wants to see the witness and share a document.
Video-Remote Interpretation for Witness Interviews
Phone (OPI)
Phone fits a short follow-up call to a witness you have already met.
Phone Interpretation for Witness Interviews
How it works
How to book an on-site interpreter for a witness interview
Enter your details and get your instant quote
Enter the interview date, start time, the address and the witness's language. The price for the booked hours shows right away.
Place your order
Pay online to confirm. Add the room, the parking, the person who lets visitors in and the case name to the notes.
Dispatcher runs and assigns an interpreter
Our dispatcher assigns a court-certified interpreter from near the address, and the confirmation names the interpreter before the day.
The interpreter arrives at your venue
The interpreter arrives at the address and meets the interviewer. The interpreter sits with the witness for the booked hours.
What you receive
- The interpreter's name and credentials in your dashboard and by email before the day.
- A longer trip shown as its own line in the quote, with travel inside the metro area already in the rate.
- Your notes on the address and entry saved with the booking.
Every file and session is covered by an NDA and sent over an encrypted connection. Clinical matters are handled in line with HIPAA.
If you also need translations
If you also need documents translated from the interview
Order a certified translation into English from the same account for the papers a witness hands over. It is priced by word count and comes as a PDF.
Courts and depositions
Letters, text messages and statements the witness gives you at the interview, translated so they can be added to the file.
Hospitals and clinics
Medical records from abroad, for witnesses in injury cases who were treated there.
Meetings and negotiations
Pay records and contracts from the witness's workplace, for employment and commercial cases.
Not in the list? We translate 37 document types, from passports and bank statements to patents, each with its own page and the same certification.Browse all documentsFAQ
Questions about on-site interpreters for witness interviews
The ones we hear most often, answered by our dispatch and project-management teams.
Can't find it here?
01Do you send interpreters to witnesses outside large cities?
Yes. We send interpreters to all 50 states. They are most numerous in large metro areas, and outside them we still send one, with more notice.
02What if the interview has to move to another day?
Cancellation is in writing. You get a full refund more than seven days before, 75% between seven days and 48 hours before, and no refund in the last 48 hours before the interview.
03Can we ask for the same interpreter at a follow-up interview?
Name the interpreter in the booking notes. We book the service rather than a particular person, so we take the request into account and assign them when they are available.
04How is an in-person interview priced?
The price is by the hour for the hours you book, and the total shows before you pay. Book more time than the questions alone suggest, because the witness's answers are interpreted in full.
05How far ahead should we book?
At least 48 to 72 hours ahead, and earlier if you can.
06Which languages can you interpret for witness interviews?
70 languages. Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Korean and Tagalog are the easiest to schedule near large cities, and rare languages need more notice.
07Are your Portuguese interpreters certified?
Yes. Court-certified and medically credentialed Portuguese interpreters are assigned to legal and clinical matters — Federal Court Interpreter Certification, state court rosters, CCHI / NBCMI for medical. For community, educational and corporate settings we assign professionally trained interpreters matched to the subject.
08Do you cover all Portuguese dialects?
Brazilian, European and PALOP Portuguese differ in pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and legal terminology. We confirm the target variety at intake and match the translator or interpreter accordingly.
Other languages
Other languages for Witness Interviews
The same page for each of these languages, with that language's varieties, its register and where it is booked most.
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