Translation Services in Vancouver

Translation services in Vancouver 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 Vancouver address on request

IRCC, and the offices in Vancouver 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.

Two B.C. offices have rules of their own. ICBC, which exchanges foreign driver’s licences, decides by country whether a translation is needed: a licence from Brazil does not need one, while licences from Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Peru do, and the translation must come from an ICBC-approved translator or a consulate in B.C. For B.C. documents going abroad, the province’s authentication office accepts translations by a translator certified by STIBC or another CTTIC society, or by a B.C. notary, notarized together with the original.

Check with ICBC or the office that will receive your document before you order: ICBC works with translators it has approved, other B.C. offices may ask for a translator certified in B.C., and Roxo is not a member of STIBC.

Did you know? Vancouver

In Vancouver, Cantonese still leads Mandarin: 54,920 residents speak Cantonese most often at home, against 30,925 for Mandarin, and 77,435 have it as their mother tongue, the largest non-official mother tongue in the city.

Consular officers of more than 80 countries work in British Columbia, most of them in Vancouver, and ICBC accepts the translation of a foreign driver’s licence or driving record made by a consulate in the province.