Translate Documents near Jersey City, New Jersey

Who needs a translator in Jersey City

About 15.9% of Jersey City residents aged five and over, 42,961 people, speak English less than very well. That is a substantial community, and in practice it is where almost all of our Jersey City work originates.

The largest group is Spanish, with 52,818 speakers. It is not the whole picture: 8 separate language groups in Jersey City have a limited-English population in the thousands.

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

Language group	Speakers	Limited English
Spanish	52,818	21,736
Other Indo-European languages	30,385	5,585
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)	11,341	3,700
Arabic	11,034	3,745
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)	10,329	2,825
Other Asian and Pacific Island languages	5,899	1,052
French, Haitian, or Cajun	3,601	855
Other and unspecified languages	3,573	1,017
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages	3,360	730
Vietnamese	1,988	1,091
Korean	1,585	516
German or other West Germanic languages	1,239	109

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 Jersey City

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 Jersey 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

Nearest USCIS office

Jersey City has no USCIS office of its own. The closest one is in Newark, New Jersey, about 6 miles away: Asylum Office - Newark, Gateway 3, 100 Mulberry Street, Suite 199, Newark, NJ 07102.

An Asylum Office handles asylum interviews rather than general filings. Translations are filed with your paperwork either way. Address from USCIS; check your own appointment notice before travelling.

Apostilles for New Jersey documents

For documents issued in New Jersey, the competent authority is New Jersey 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 Jersey City: Spanish, other Indo-European languages, Tagalog. We cover more than 100 languages in total, listed on the languages page.