Translate Documents near Birmingham, Alabama

Who needs a translator in Birmingham

Birmingham has a small non-English-speaking population by national standards: 5,161 residents, or 2.7%, speak English less than very well. Requests from here tend to be individual immigration or academic files rather than volume work, and they are usually concentrated in a handful of languages.

Spanish dominates: 7,842 speakers, 62% of everyone in Birmingham 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 Birmingham, and how many speakers report limited English

Language group	Speakers	Limited English
Spanish	7,842	3,933
Other Indo-European languages	1,136	206
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)	794	454
Other and unspecified languages	634	105
French, Haitian, or Cajun	482	37
German or other West Germanic languages	460	79
Other Asian and Pacific Island languages	449	137
Arabic	405	13
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages	196	80
Vietnamese	115	92
Korean	70	8
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)	45	17

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 Birmingham

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 Alabama 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 Birmingham

Application Support Center - Birmingham, AL is at USCIS Application Support Center, 529 Beacon Parkway, Suite 106, Birmingham, AL 35209.

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 Alabama documents

For documents issued in Alabama, the competent authority is Alabama 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 Birmingham: Spanish, other Indo-European languages, Chinese. We cover more than 100 languages in total, listed on the languages page.