Translate Documents near Austin, Texas

Who needs a translator in Austin

Austin is mostly English-speaking. Of 915,741 residents aged five and over, 272,536 speak another language at home, and 94,477 of those (10.3% of the city) speak English less than very well. Smaller numbers, but the documents they need certified are exactly the same ones.

Spanish dominates: 184,269 speakers, 68% of everyone in Austin who speaks a language other than English at home. If you are looking for a Spanish translator here, that is why.

Languages spoken at home in Austin, and how many speakers report limited English

Language group	Speakers	Limited English
Spanish	184,269	70,232
Other Indo-European languages	22,735	4,123
Other Asian and Pacific Island languages	14,900	3,396
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)	12,578	4,320
Vietnamese	7,641	4,340
Other and unspecified languages	6,587	1,486
Arabic	5,883	1,954
Korean	4,854	1,827
French, Haitian, or Cajun	4,094	605
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages	3,806	1,359
German or other West Germanic languages	3,149	249
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)	2,040	586

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-Year Estimates, table C16001. "Limited English" is the Census category for speaking English less than very well. Several rows are combined groups rather than single languages, so the totals cover a family of languages. We translate the individual languages inside each group.

Getting a document certified from Austin

There is no walk-in office here and none is needed. You upload the file, we return a PDF you can print, and the certification carries the same weight whether the translator sat in Texas or in New York. Our office at 55 Broadway in New York handles paper in person if you prefer that.

What a certified translation has to contain, what USCIS accepts, and what it costs are the same everywhere, so they are covered once on the pages that own them rather than repeated here:

• How certified translation works, including the wording USCIS requires
• Birth certificates, the most common document in an immigration file
• Marriage certificates and divorce decrees
• Diplomas and transcripts for credential evaluation
• Apostilles, a separate step that is often mistaken for certification

The USCIS office in Austin

Application Support Center - Austin, TX is at USCIS Application Support Center, Parkline Plaza Shopping Center, 11301 Lakeline Boulevard, Suite 150, Austin, TX 78717.

An Application Support Center handles biometrics, not interviews. Translations are filed with your paperwork either way. Address from USCIS; check your own appointment notice before travelling.

Apostilles for Texas documents

For documents issued in Texas, the competent authority is Texas Secretary of State. Not us: an apostille authenticates the original document, while certification covers the translation. How the two fit together.

Authority per the Hague Conference registry, which is not the Secretary of State in every state.

Languages most asked for in Austin: Spanish, other Indo-European languages, other Asian and Pacific Island languages. We cover more than 100 languages in total, listed on the languages page.