Translation Services in Ottawa

Translation services in Ottawa for official use: we translate your documents into English or French, or into more than 30 other languages, with the translator’s affidavit sworn before a notary public, the format IRCC accepts for immigration and citizenship. Everything is done online, and the translation arrives by email.

Certified translations for IRCC, the courts and universities

• Certified translation with the translator’s affidavit, sworn before a notary public
• Human translation, checked by a second translator
• Sent as a PDF by email, with a printed copy by mail to any Ottawa address on request

IRCC, and the offices in Ottawa with rules of their own

For IRCC, a translation by a translator who is not certified in Canada is accepted when it comes with the translator’s affidavit, sworn before a notary public outside Canada, and a certified copy of the original. That is our IRCC translation.

Ottawa works in both official languages. For the marriage licence, the City accepts identification and divorce documents in English or French; documents in any other language need an official translation. For a foreign driver’s licence, Ontario accepts translations by foreign embassies and consulates and by qualified translators who show their credentials, dated within six months of the application.

Check with the City or DriveTest whether they will accept our translation before you order: they may ask for a translator certified in Ontario, and Roxo is not a member of ATIO.

Did you know? Ottawa

Ottawa was called Bytown until 1855, when it became a city and took its present name. On the last day of 1857, Queen Victoria’s choice of Ottawa as the capital of the Province of Canada was announced, and the city’s population nearly tripled in the next two decades.

Ottawa lives in two languages: in the 2021 census, 36.4% of its residents could speak both English and French, and 12.5% had French as their mother tongue. Across the river, Gatineau is already in Quebec.