Certified translator in New York

Did you know? New York

Generations of immigrants arrived in New York through Ellis Island, next to the Statue of Liberty. Today more than a third of New York City residents were born outside the United States, and hundreds of languages are spoken across the five boroughs.

Wall Street makes the city one of the world's largest financial centers, and the United Nations headquarters is in Manhattan. Central Park, in Manhattan, receives around 40 million visitors a year, and Niagara Falls, on the border with Canada, is in the north of the state.

Columbia, NYU and Cornell welcome students from all over the world, and the state's courts, universities and employers ask for certified translations of documents from abroad.

New York City has the largest foreign-born population of any American city, more than three million people. Birth, marriage and divorce certificates from abroad need a certified English translation for the USCIS, the courts and the DMV.

Certified translator for USCIS in New York

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 New York is the Syracuse Field Office, at 213 South Salina Street, Syracuse, NY 13202.

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