Translate Documents near Sacramento, California

Who needs a translator in Sacramento

About 14% of Sacramento residents aged five and over, 69,157 people, speak English less than very well. That is a substantial community, and in practice it is where almost all of our Sacramento work originates.

The largest group is Spanish, with 81,007 speakers. It is not the whole picture: 7 separate language groups in Sacramento have a limited-English population in the thousands.

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

Language group	Speakers	Limited English
Spanish	81,007	27,254
Other Asian and Pacific Island languages	26,289	11,762
Other Indo-European languages	24,596	8,028
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)	15,222	9,278
Vietnamese	7,600	4,956
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)	7,368	2,751
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages	5,775	3,073
Other and unspecified languages	2,379	541
Arabic	2,248	775
German or other West Germanic languages	1,299	125
Korean	1,063	470
French, Haitian, or Cajun	1,014	144

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 Sacramento

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 California 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 Sacramento

Application Support Center - Sacramento, CA is at USCIS Application Support Center, 825 Riverside Parkway, Suite 100, West Sacramento, CA 95605-1502.

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 California documents

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