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From the OP's description, it sounds like his girlfriend was a child when entering on a fake passport. So I wonder if this would be taken into consideration: the fact that it was likely her parents who altered/faked the passport, not the child. 

26 minutes ago, islandereden said:

And there weren’t any issues right? 

No issues.  Translated Taiwan birth certificate, household registration.  Maybe some other stuff.  Self-translated, with that "Certificate of Translation" at the end.  USCIS never questioned it.  First application for green card was in 2011. Got permanent residence, then eventually U.S. Citizenship.

Visajourney has a page here on translation: https://www.visajourney.com/content/translations/

And you can type "translation" into the search box, and read other people's similar experiences.

Yes you can translate.  That's how I did it.

USCIS rules state: "Translations. Any document containing foreign language submitted to USCIS shall be accompanied by a full English language translation which the translator has certified as complete and accurate, and by the translator's certification that he or she is competent to translate from the foreign language into English."

After my own translated English document, I added language like this with my signature:

CERTIFICATE OF TRANSLATION

I, ______(name)_____, am competent to translate from _(Traditional Chinese)_ into English, and certify that the translation of __(document title)__ is true, complete, and accurate to the best of my abilities

_____________________________ Signature of Translator

______________________________ Name of Translator

____________________________ Address of Translator

____________________________Telephone Number of Translator

1. That sounds right. If you have no criminal history, then you have nothing to report. That's how my wife and I did it and we were successful in getting a green card.

2. This is dependent upon circumstance, but the way you describe it sounds like everything was dismissed/dropped. A traffic accident resulting in an insurance payment is so common that I doubt USCIS wants to know about every fender-bender.

3. The 30 days is for photos, not for all the other documents (unless it's something specifically time-sensitive). If you have a valid birth certificate in your possession, it's still valid.

4. The medical exam should be close to the time of your submission. The doctor we went to for the exam said this is not a hard-and-fast rule, but it's better to send off your application soon after getting the I-693 done. Like a few weeks to a month. My doc has seen some cases where an applicant waits a long time (like many months) and then a picky bureaucrat wants to see a new I-693.