Arabic to English
Certified Bank Statement Translation, Arabic to English
A certified Arabic to English translation of a bank statement costs $24.95 per page, where one page is up to 250 words of the source document. A typical bank statement runs 1 to 8 pages, so most orders come to $24.95 to $199.60. Certified orders are delivered in 2 to 3 business days as a PDF containing the complete translation and a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy from the qualified professional translator who completed or reviewed the work, prepared for official use including USCIS filings.
Pricing
Exact prices, shown before you pay
One monthly statement usually bills as 1 to 3 pages of 250 words; multi-month sets for I-864 or source-of-funds evidence grow quickly because every transaction line counts. Certified translation is $24.95 per page, so a typical order of 1 to 8 pages comes to $24.95 to $199.60. The exact total is measured from your document and shown before payment.
Standard
$19.95 per page
3 to 5 business days
A professional translation with digital delivery.
Certified
$24.95 per page
2 to 3 business days
A certified translation accepted for official use.
Premium
$39.95 per page
1 to 2 business days
A certified translation, translated first.
One page is up to 250 words.
Requirements
What reviewers require for a certified bank statement translation
- USCIS requires a full English language translation of any foreign-language document, certified by the translator as complete and accurate, with a certification of competence to translate (8 CFR 103.2(b)(3)); this applies to bank statements the same as to civil documents.
- A complete translation covers every transaction row, column header, running balance, footnote, and marginal note; a summary or excerpt does not satisfy the full-translation rule.
- Amounts and currency symbols are reproduced exactly as printed with no currency conversion; for Form I-864 the sponsor states US dollar equivalents on the form itself, not inside the translation.
- All pages of a statement must be present and translated; a statement marked page 1 of 5 that arrives as one page reads as incomplete evidence.
- Bank seals, stamps, and officer signatures are identified in bracketed descriptions and any text inside them is translated.
- Account numbers, dates, and figures are preserved exactly; nothing is redacted or omitted by the translator, because the certification attests to a complete rendering of the source.
- The account holder's name is spelled consistently with the Latin spelling in the applicant's passport so financial evidence links cleanly to the identity documents in the same filing.
Common reasons translations get rejected
- Translating only the summary or balance page and skipping the transaction table is a partial translation, which does not meet the full-translation requirement and commonly draws an RFE for incomplete evidence.
- Missing pages of a multi-page statement make the evidence incomplete even when the translated pages are perfect.
- Converting or rounding amounts inside the translation changes the source content and undermines the translator's accuracy certification; conversions belong on the form or in a separate note, not in the certified rendering.
- Translations without a signed certification statement fail the 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) certification requirement.
- Statements that do not cover the period the receiver asked for, such as the 12-month history described in the I-864 instructions for asset evidence, invite follow-up requests regardless of translation quality.
Good to know
About Arabic-language bank statements
Arab bank statements (كشف حساب, kashf hisab) are often bilingual Arabic and English, but transaction descriptions, branch stamps and balance certificates are frequently in Arabic only. Common terms are الرصيد الافتتاحي and الرصيد الختامي (opening and closing balance), مدين (debit), دائن (credit), إيداع (deposit), سحب (withdrawal) and تحويل (transfer). Currencies include the Egyptian pound (جنيه مصري, EGP), Saudi riyal (ريال سعودي, SAR), UAE dirham (درهم إماراتي, AED), Jordanian dinar (دينار أردني, JOD), Iraqi dinar (دينار عراقي, IQD) and Moroccan dirham (درهم مغربي, MAD), and Saudi statements may date transactions in the Hijri calendar. A translator converts Arabic-Indic digits and separators (٫ for decimals, ٬ for thousands) without changing any amount and keeps account numbers and IBANs exactly.
Official Arabic-language civil records come from each country's civil status (civil registry) authority, usually part of the interior ministry. In Egypt this is the Civil Status Organization (مصلحة الأحوال المدنية, Maslahat al-Ahwal al-Madaniyya) of the Ministry of Interior, which issues the national ID card, birth, death, marriage and divorce records, and family and individual registry extracts (قيد عائلي, qaid a'ili, and قيد فردي, qaid fardi). Comparable bodies are Jordan's Civil Status and Passports Department (دائرة الأحوال المدنية والجوازات), the civil status and national card directorates of Iraq's Ministry of Interior, Lebanon's Directorate General of Personal Status (المديرية العامة للأحوال الشخصية), Saudi Arabia's Civil Affairs (الأحوال المدنية), and in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia the civil status office (الحالة المدنية, état civil) of the commune or town hall. Marriages and divorces are usually concluded before a religious official or court (a ma'zoun in Egypt, sharia or church courts in Jordan and the Levant, adouls in Morocco) and then registered with the civil authority.
Egypt issues birth certificates in two forms, a handwritten certificate from the Health Office (مكتب الصحة) of the district where the birth was registered, and a computerized certificate (شهادة ميلاد مميكنة, shahadat milad mumayakana) printed by the Civil Status Organization of the Ministry of Interior from the national civil registry database. Computerized birth, death, marriage and divorce certificates are printed at civil status offices and self service kiosks from the same database, and they show the 14 digit national number (الرقم القومي, al-raqam al-qawmi). An older handwritten certificate and a newer computerized printout of the same birth can differ in layout and spelling, so a translator translates the document actually supplied and does not merge the two.
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Questions
Common questions
- Does every single transaction have to be translated?
- Yes. USCIS regulation 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) requires a full English translation of the document, so every transaction row, header, footnote, and running balance appears in English. Partial translations are a common reason bank statement evidence draws an RFE.
- Will you convert the amounts to US dollars?
- No. A certified translation reproduces the figures and currency exactly as printed. For Form I-864, USCIS expects the sponsor to state US dollar equivalents on the form itself, separate from the translation.
- How many pages will my bank statement count as?
- Pricing is per page of up to 250 words, so a transaction-dense PDF page can count as more than one billed page. A typical monthly statement runs 1 to 3 billed pages at 24.95 USD per certified page.
- How many months of statements does USCIS want?
- It depends on the filing. For I-864 asset evidence, the USCIS instructions describe bank statements covering the last 12 months or a bank officer letter with a 12-month deposit and withdrawal history. Other filings, and schools issuing an I-20, often ask for shorter periods, so follow the checklist you were given.
- My bank statement was issued in Egypt. What should I know before ordering?
- Arab bank statements (كشف حساب, kashf hisab) are often bilingual Arabic and English, but transaction descriptions, branch stamps and balance certificates are frequently in Arabic only. Common terms are الرصيد الافتتاحي and الرصيد الختامي (opening and closing balance), مدين (debit), دائن (credit), إيداع (deposit), سحب (withdrawal) and تحويل (transfer). Currencies include the Egyptian pound (جنيه مصري, EGP), Saudi riyal (ريال سعودي, SAR), UAE dirham (درهم إماراتي, AED), Jordanian dinar (دينار أردني, JOD), Iraqi dinar (دينار عراقي, IQD) and Moroccan dirham (درهم مغربي, MAD), and Saudi statements may date transactions in the Hijri calendar. A translator converts Arabic-Indic digits and separators (٫ for decimals, ٬ for thousands) without changing any amount and keeps account numbers and IBANs exactly.
A translation error is ours to fix
If your certified translation is rejected because of a translation error we made, we correct it at no charge, and if the corrected translation is rejected again for that same error we refund what you paid for it. Our Refund Policy sets out the conditions and what it does not cover. Your documents are encrypted and kept confidential from start to finish.
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