# Urdu Translation Services

> Urdu translation services for documents from Pakistan and India, such as the Nikah Nama, by native human translators. Certified for USCIS.

https://roxotranslations.com/urdu-translation/

Roxo Translations offers Urdu translation services for documents from Pakistan and India and from the Urdu-speaking communities of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and the Gulf, to and from English, Arabic, Italian and Russian. Every translation is done by a human translator, native in the target language, and reviewed by a second one, never by machine translation.

Send a photo or scan of the document, see the price and the deadline instantly, and receive the translation as a PDF. For the United States it comes certified and accepted by USCIS, with the signed statement and notarization included.

- Urdu from Pakistan and India, in both directions
- Certified for USCIS, with notarization included
- Instant online quote and fast delivery

## Where Urdu is spoken and where your translation is accepted

Urdu is the national language of Pakistan, where it is official together with English, and one of the 22 languages listed in the Constitution of India, official in several Indian states. About 70 million people speak it as a first language, and more than 200 million speak it in total, because in Pakistan it is the common language of people who grow up speaking Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto or Balochi. Large communities live in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Italy and the Gulf countries, and the destination decides the type of translation.

| Where | What you need |
|---|---|
| United States: USCIS, courts, universities and employers | [Certified translation](https://roxotranslations.com/certified-translation/) into English, with the signed statement of accuracy and notarization included |
| Brazil: notary offices, universities and public agencies | [Sworn translation](https://roxotranslations.com/pt/traducao-juramentada/) into Portuguese, signed by a public sworn translator and valid nationwide. For Urdu, we confirm before quoting whether it goes through English |
| Pakistan, India, the United Kingdom, Italy and the Gulf | Ask the receiving authority which format it accepts: we tell you the options before quoting, including the [Hague apostille](https://roxotranslations.com/apostille/) when it applies |
| Consulates, embassies and immigration processes | The translation into the language the authority asks for, with the apostille on the original when it is required |

## Urdu language pairs we translate

These are the language pairs with Urdu that we translate today, in both directions.

- [Urdu to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [Urdu to English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Urdu to Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Urdu to Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)
- [Arabic to Urdu](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [English to Urdu](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Italian to Urdu](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Russian to Urdu](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)

Need a pair that is not on the list? Talk to us: we answer within one hour, 7 days a week.

## Urdu translation services for Pakistan and India

Urdu is one language in Pakistan and in India, but it is written in its own script, from right to left, and documents from each country follow their own formats. Many Pakistani records are printed in English with fields filled in Urdu, or in both languages side by side. A good translation keeps every name, date and note of the original and reads naturally to whoever receives it.

- Script: Urdu is written from right to left in the Perso-Arabic alphabet, in the flowing Nastaliq style, with letters of its own such as ٹ, ڈ, ڑ and ے. Handwritten fields and stamps are read letter by letter, and the translation marks any part that is illegible.
- Names: the same name can be spelled Muhammad, Mohammad or Muhammed in English, and many people have no fixed family name. Pakistani records identify a person by the father’s or husband’s name, shown as son of (s/o), daughter of (d/o) or wife of (w/o). The translation keeps each name exactly as in the original, so tell us the spelling used in your passport when you order.
- Dates and numbers: dates are written day, month and year, so 03/10/2026 is October 3, 2026, and a Nikah Nama can also carry the date of the Islamic calendar. Large amounts are grouped in lakhs and crores, so 1,50,000 is one hundred fifty thousand, and the translation writes them in the format of the destination.
- Documents from Pakistan: the national identity card (CNIC), the child registration certificate (B-Form) and the family registration certificate (FRC) come from NADRA, the birth and death certificates from the Union Council, and the marriage contract is the Nikah Nama. The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.
- Documents from India: Urdu records from India, such as old certificates and religious marriage documents, follow the format of the issuing state. The receiving authority defines whether the translation needs a certification, a notarization or the apostille on the original.

## The history of the Urdu language

Urdu grew out of the speech of the region around Delhi, in northern India, from the 13th century on, when the sultanates and later the Mughal Empire brought Persian, Arabic and Turkic words into the local language. Its name comes from the Turkic word ordu, the army camp, in the expression zaban-e-urdu, the language of the camp. For centuries the same spoken base was called Hindustani, Hindavi or Rekhta.

Urdu poetry flourished in the Deccan with Wali Dakhani, in the late 17th century, and in Delhi and Lucknow with Mir Taqi Mir in the 18th century and Mirza Ghalib in the 19th. Around 1800, Fort William College in Calcutta published some of the first modern prose works in Urdu, and the poet Muhammad Iqbal, in the early 20th century, wrote in Urdu and in Persian.

When Pakistan was founded, in 1947, Urdu became its national language, and the Constitution of 1973 confirmed it. In India it remained one of the languages of the Constitution. Today more than 200 million people speak Urdu, in South Asia and in the communities of the United Kingdom, North America and the Gulf, and their family and immigration records are still translated every day.

## We also translate other languages

- [Amharic translation](https://roxotranslations.com/amharic-translation/)
- [Croatian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/croatian-translation/)
- [Thai translation](https://roxotranslations.com/thai-translation/)
- [Tagalog translation](https://roxotranslations.com/tagalog-translation/)
- [Punjabi translation](https://roxotranslations.com/punjabi-translation/)