Certified translator in Louisiana

Did you know? Louisiana

New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz and of Mardi Gras in the United States, and Louisiana is the only state divided into parishes instead of counties.

Oil, gas and petrochemicals drive the economy, and the ports along the Mississippi River are among the busiest in the country by tonnage. The United States bought Louisiana from France in 1803, a deal that doubled the size of the country, and the French Quarter, in New Orleans, keeps buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge, and Tulane University, in New Orleans, welcome students from many countries. Zydeco and Cajun music, often sung in French, still play at the festivals in the south of the state.

The New Orleans area has one of the largest Honduran communities in the United States and a large Vietnamese community, and the state's French and Spanish past still shows in old records. Their documents need a certified English translation for the USCIS, the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles and the schools.

Certified translator for USCIS in Louisiana

USCIS asks that every foreign-language document come with a full English translation and a certification from the translator stating that they are competent to translate and that the translation is accurate (8 CFR 103.2(b)(3)).

The main USCIS office in Louisiana is the New Orleans Field Office, at 1250 Poydras Street, Suite 1800, New Orleans, LA 70113.

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