Translate Documents near Boise, Idaho

Who needs a translator in Boise

Boise has a small non-English-speaking population by national standards: 8,445 residents, or 3.7%, 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.

The largest group is Spanish, with 11,418 speakers.

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

Language group	Speakers	Limited English
Spanish	11,418	3,726
Other Asian and Pacific Island languages	2,239	861
Other Indo-European languages	2,200	695
Arabic	1,336	759
Other and unspecified languages	1,325	616
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)	1,116	391
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages	1,095	566
German or other West Germanic languages	964	91
French, Haitian, or Cajun	825	180
Vietnamese	529	233
Korean	471	229
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)	383	98

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 Boise

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 Idaho 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 Boise

Application Support Center - Boise, ID is at USCIS Application Support Center, 7180 West Potomac Drive, Boise, ID 83704.

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 Idaho documents

For documents issued in Idaho, the competent authority is Idaho 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 Boise: Spanish, other Asian and Pacific Island languages, other Indo-European languages. We cover more than 100 languages in total, listed on the languages page.