Translate Documents near Buffalo, New York

Who needs a translator in Buffalo

Buffalo is mostly English-speaking. Of 259,537 residents aged five and over, 49,706 speak another language at home, and 21,273 of those (8.2% of the city) speak English less than very well. Smaller numbers, but the documents they need certified are exactly the same ones.

The largest group is Spanish, with 19,245 speakers. It is not the whole picture: 5 separate language groups in Buffalo have a limited-English population in the thousands.

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

Language group	Speakers	Limited English
Spanish	19,245	7,161
Other Indo-European languages	11,656	6,457
Other Asian and Pacific Island languages	5,177	2,858
Other and unspecified languages	4,707	1,846
Arabic	2,793	1,074
French, Haitian, or Cajun	1,692	425
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)	1,457	512
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages	1,163	247
Vietnamese	665	421
German or other West Germanic languages	641	68
Korean	257	82
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)	253	122

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 Buffalo

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 New York 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 Buffalo

Application Support Center - Buffalo, NY is at USCIS Application Support Center, 306 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202.

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 New York documents

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