Translate Documents near Phoenix, Arizona

Who needs a translator in Phoenix

About 12.2% of Phoenix residents aged five and over, 186,717 people, speak English less than very well. That is a substantial community, and in practice it is where almost all of our Phoenix work originates.

Spanish dominates: 445,662 speakers, 81% of everyone in Phoenix 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 Phoenix, and how many speakers report limited English

Language group	Speakers	Limited English
Spanish	445,662	155,471
Other Indo-European languages	23,108	5,726
Other and unspecified languages	21,329	6,448
Other Asian and Pacific Island languages	14,277	4,348
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages	9,318	2,403
Arabic	7,093	3,029
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)	6,464	1,599
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)	5,769	2,586
French, Haitian, or Cajun	4,543	1,321
Vietnamese	4,467	2,479
German or other West Germanic languages	3,321	269
Korean	2,387	1,038

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 Phoenix

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 Arizona 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 Phoenix

Application Support Center - Phoenix, AZ is at USCIS Application Support Center, 1330 South 16th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85034.

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 Arizona documents

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