Translate Documents near San Antonio, Texas

Who needs a translator in San Antonio

About 12.6% of San Antonio residents aged five and over, 172,598 people, speak English less than very well. That is a substantial community, and in practice it is where almost all of our San Antonio work originates.

Spanish dominates: 497,803 speakers, 90% of everyone in San Antonio 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 San Antonio, and how many speakers report limited English

Language group	Speakers	Limited English
Spanish	497,803	152,465
Other Indo-European languages	13,208	5,178
Other Asian and Pacific Island languages	9,051	3,223
Arabic	6,182	2,147
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)	5,118	2,533
Vietnamese	4,481	2,397
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)	4,255	870
Other and unspecified languages	3,455	1,219
German or other West Germanic languages	2,660	435
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages	2,110	682
French, Haitian, or Cajun	2,072	550
Korean	1,835	899

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 San Antonio

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 Texas 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

Apostilles for Texas documents

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