Translate Documents near Louisville, Kentucky

Who needs a translator in Louisville

Louisville is mostly English-speaking. Of 588,273 residents aged five and over, 74,400 speak another language at home, and 36,899 of those (6.3% 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 39,846 speakers. It is not the whole picture: 8 separate language groups in Louisville have a limited-English population in the thousands.

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

Language group	Speakers	Limited English
Spanish	39,846	21,780
Other and unspecified languages	7,179	3,773
Other Indo-European languages	6,064	2,433
Arabic	3,890	1,684
Other Asian and Pacific Island languages	3,769	1,574
French, Haitian, or Cajun	3,696	2,079
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages	3,187	1,144
Vietnamese	2,093	1,113
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)	1,443	460
German or other West Germanic languages	1,411	99
Korean	958	440
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)	864	320

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 Louisville

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 Kentucky 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 Louisville

Application Support Center - Louisville, KY is at USCIS Application Support Center, 601 West Broadway, Suite 636, Louisville, KY 40202.

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 Kentucky documents

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