Translate Documents near Hartford, Connecticut

Who needs a translator in Hartford

About 18.7% of Hartford residents aged five and over, 21,285 people, speak English less than very well. That is a substantial community, and in practice it is where almost all of our Hartford work originates.

Spanish dominates: 39,932 speakers, 80% of everyone in Hartford 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 Hartford, and how many speakers report limited English

Language group	Speakers	Limited English
Spanish	39,932	17,093
Other Indo-European languages	3,058	1,338
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages	2,230	1,244
Other Asian and Pacific Island languages	1,388	680
French, Haitian, or Cajun	1,116	286
Other and unspecified languages	940	296
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)	358	111
Arabic	285	132
Vietnamese	144	81
German or other West Germanic languages	98	24
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)	53	0
Korean	38	0

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 Hartford

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 Connecticut 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 Hartford

Application Support Center - Hartford, CT is at USCIS Application Support Center, 265 Ellington Road, Suite E, East Hartford, CT 06108.

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 Connecticut documents

For documents issued in Connecticut, the competent authority is Connecticut Secretary of the 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 Hartford: Spanish, other Indo-European languages, Russian, Polish and other Slavic languages. We cover more than 100 languages in total, listed on the languages page.