Chinese to English
Certified Bank Statement Translation, Chinese to English
A certified Chinese to English translation of a bank statement costs $24.95 per page of the source document, whatever the number of characters on it. 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 Chinese-language bank statements
Mainland bank records are usually an account transaction statement (账户交易明细 or 银行流水, yinhang liushui) or a certificate of deposit balance (存款证明, cunkuan zhengming), stamped with the branch's business seal (业务专用章) or an electronic seal. Statements list the transaction date, a description (摘要, zhaiyao), debit and credit amounts (支出 and 收入, or 借方 and 贷方), the balance (余额) and often the counterparty, in renminbi (人民币, CNY) unless another currency is shown. Taiwanese bank records are in New Taiwan dollars and may use Minguo dates, and Hong Kong statements are usually in English. A qualified translator copies every figure, account number and date exactly, keeps the currency as stated without converting it, and describes the seals.
In mainland China, documents for use abroad are usually produced as notarial certificates (公证书, gongzhengshu) by notary public offices (公证处, gongzhengchu), which the justice administration authorities supervise. Civil affairs bureaus (民政局, minzhengju) register marriages and divorces and issue the marriage and divorce certificates. Hospitals and other licensed birth facilities issue the Medical Certificate of Birth (出生医学证明, chusheng yixue zhengming). Public security organs (公安机关, gong'an jiguan) keep the household register (户口, hukou), issue resident identity cards and answer criminal record queries through local police stations (派出所, paichusuo). In Taiwan, household registration offices (戶政事務所, huzheng shiwusuo) under the Ministry of the Interior record births, marriages, divorces and deaths and issue household registration transcripts (戶籍謄本, huji tengben). In Hong Kong, the Immigration Department's registries issue certified copies of birth, death and marriage entries.
Documents from mainland China arrive in a few recurring formats. Booklets come from the agency that keeps the record, such as the household register booklet (户口簿, hukoubu, also called 户口本, hukouben), the marriage certificate (结婚证, jiehunzheng) and the divorce certificate (离婚证, lihunzheng). Single-sheet certificates include the hospital-issued Medical Certificate of Birth and the Medical Certificate of Death (居民死亡医学证明, jumin siwang yixue zhengming). Notarial certificates (公证书) are bound booklets from a notary public office that pair a photocopy of the underlying record, or a statement of the certified fact, with the notary's certificate and often an English translation. Court judgments (判决书, panjueshu) and mediation statements (调解书, tiaojieshu), university certificates and transcripts, and online verification reports from CHSI (学信网, Xuexin Wang) are also common, and many agencies now issue electronic certificates (电子证照, dianzi zhengzhao) that carry a QR or verification code.
How it works
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Step 3
Reviewed for accuracy and certified
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Questions
Common questions
- The statement is in my maiden name. Is that a problem for the translation?
- The translation reproduces the name exactly as printed. If the name differs from your current documents, agencies usually expect connecting evidence such as a marriage certificate, which can itself require a certified translation.
- 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.
- My bank statement was issued in China. What should I know before ordering?
- Mainland bank records are usually an account transaction statement (账户交易明细 or 银行流水, yinhang liushui) or a certificate of deposit balance (存款证明, cunkuan zhengming), stamped with the branch's business seal (业务专用章) or an electronic seal. Statements list the transaction date, a description (摘要, zhaiyao), debit and credit amounts (支出 and 收入, or 借方 and 贷方), the balance (余额) and often the counterparty, in renminbi (人民币, CNY) unless another currency is shown. Taiwanese bank records are in New Taiwan dollars and may use Minguo dates, and Hong Kong statements are usually in English. A qualified translator copies every figure, account number and date exactly, keeps the currency as stated without converting it, and describes the seals.
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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