2 Translation questions

[raian 2]

My wife is from Indonesia. We have a parts of our marriage book/certificate, and her birth certificate required to be translated.

1) Can anybody who is fluent in Indonesian/English do the translation for us? Or does it have to be a professional translator?

2) in the USCIS Document Translation Policy (http://www.visajourney.com/content/translations), it states that the statement below must be included:

I typed name , certify that I am fluent (conversant) in the English and

languages, and that the above/attached document is an accurate translation of the

document attached entitled .

Signature

Date Typed Name

Address

Should the "(conversant)" be typed as so or does it serve some other purpose?

Thank you everyone. This website is helping me and everyone out a whole lot. Even relieving some of the stress

[Ryan H 3,813]

1) Can anybody who is fluent in Indonesian/English do the translation for us? Or does it have to be a professional translator?

For USCIS, there is not stated rule that says a translation must be done by a professional; anyone who is fluent can do it.

Edited August 20, 2011 by Ryan H

[raian 2]

For USCIS, there is not stated rule that says a translation must be done by a professional; anyone who is fluent can do it.

Thank you Anybody else know the answer to my question #2?

[Ryan H 3,813]

Thank you Anybody else know the answer to my question #2?

If in doubt, just prepare the attestation statement word for word as it reads on the USCIS website.

Edited August 20, 2011 by Ryan H

[SSr2 0]

Thank you Anybody else know the answer to my question #2?

My wife did the translations for our documents and it was approved.

As long as that person is fluent is should be ok (conversant just really means that they can hold a coherent conversation in that language).

Just make sure that the translated document has the disclaimer attached or even on the translated document itself.

[raian 2]

My wife did the translations for our documents and it was approved.

As long as that person is fluent is should be ok (conversant just really means that they can hold a coherent conversation in that language).

Just make sure that the translated document has the disclaimer attached or even on the translated document itself.

Did your wife type out the official statement that I posted, word for word? I'm just confused whether to have (conversant) in the statement as in the example.

[pushbrk 12,975]

For USCIS, there is not stated rule that says a translation must be done by a professional; anyone who is fluent can do it.

This is generally correct but recently I saw a report of a Chinese divorce decree getting an RFE because the translation was not from the Notarial Office. That's China specific but the RFE actually was very specific about where the translation needed to come from. I was quite surprised to see this.

[SSr2 0]

Did your wife type out the official statement that I posted, word for word? I'm just confused whether to have (conversant) in the statement as in the example.

I believe the translation said something like:

I hereby declare the translation of this document accurate and true or something like that

my documents are at home so i can't check them at the moment.

but from the I-130 instructions itself:

Translations. Any foreign language document must be accompanied by a full English translations that the translator has certified as complete and correct, and by the translator's certification that he or she is competent to translate the foreign language into English.

I would say as long as the statement says that the translation is correct and the translator is competent, you could just say she is fluent (if she really is fluent), but if not I would say conversant. But that's just my opinion.

Maybe it does depend on the country that the translations need to be certified, but I know my wife wrote a similar statement on the documents and signed them.

I'm not quite sure if they took into consideration that my wife did go to school here, but it seemed to be ok for them.