Arabic to English
Certified Driver's License Translation, Arabic to English
A certified Arabic to English translation of a driver's license costs $24.95 per page, where one page is up to 250 words of the source document. A typical driver's license runs 1 page, so most orders come to $24.95. 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
Front and back of a license together stay well under 250 source words, so each PDF page is billed as one page. Certified translation is $24.95 per page, so a typical order of 1 page comes to $24.95. 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 driver's license translation
- Texas DPS requires that foreign driver licenses not in English or Spanish be translated by a translation service or the holder's consulate before applying for a Texas driver license.
- If the license is submitted to USCIS as part of a filing, it must carry a full English translation certified by the translator as complete and accurate, with the translator's certification of competence (8 CFR 103.2(b)(3)).
- Both sides of the license must be translated, including license classes or categories, endorsements, restrictions, issue and expiration dates, and issuing-authority text, because the DMV maps driving privileges from the category codes.
- The license number, dates, and all identity fields must be copied exactly as printed, with dates rendered unambiguously so a day-month-year source format cannot be misread as month-day-year.
- The holder's name must be transliterated consistently with the passport or other identity documents in the same process to avoid record mismatches.
- Seals, holograms with text, stamps, and signatures are rendered or described, and any portion that cannot be read is marked as illegible rather than guessed.
Common reasons translations get rejected
- Only the front of the license is translated, so category codes, endorsements, or restrictions printed on the back are missing and the DMV cannot map the driving privileges.
- A day-month-year date is silently reordered or left ambiguous, and the DMV records a wrong date of birth or expiration date.
- License classes or categories are mistranslated or replaced with assumed US class letters, misstating what the holder is licensed to drive.
- The name transliteration does not match the passport or immigration documents presented at the same DMV visit, causing an identity mismatch.
- The translation arrives without a signed translator certification, which fails USCIS requirements under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) and the certification expectations of most DMVs and courts.
Good to know
About Arabic-language driver's licenses
Egyptian driving licences (رخصة قيادة, rukhsat qiyada) are issued by the traffic departments (المرور) of the Ministry of Interior and are separate from vehicle licences (رخصة مركبة); classes include private (خاصة) and professional (مهنية) licences. Gulf licences from the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are usually bilingual Arabic and English cards, Moroccan and Algerian licences (رخصة السياقة, permis de conduire) are in Arabic and French, and older Saudi licences may show Hijri dates. A translator converts digits, gives the Gregorian equivalent of any Hijri date, and translates licence classes and restrictions.
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.
How it works
From upload to certified delivery
Step 1
Upload and get an instant quote
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Step 2
A professional translator translates it
A qualified professional translator translates your document.
Step 3
Reviewed for accuracy and certified
Your translation is reviewed for accuracy and certified with a signed certificate of accuracy.
Step 4
Receive your certified translation
You receive your certified translation, ready for official use.
Questions
Common questions
- Is an International Driving Permit the same as a certified translation?
- No. An IDP is a separate booklet issued in your licensing country that translates your license for driving as a visitor. When a DMV, court, or USCIS asks for a certified translation, they mean an English translation of the license itself delivered with a signed translator certification, which an IDP is not.
- Do you translate the back of the license too?
- Yes. Both sides are translated, including category codes, endorsements, restrictions, and issuing-authority text, because the DMV reads your driving privileges from those fields. Front and back uploaded as one PDF page cost one page, and uploaded as two PDF pages they cost two. The free scanner in the Eagle Translate iPhone app can put both sides on one PDF page.
- How much does a driver's license translation cost?
- A license is well under the 250 source words that make up one page, so the price is set by the number of pages in your PDF. Front and back uploaded as one PDF page cost one page at 24.95 USD, and uploaded as two PDF pages they cost two. The free scanner in the Eagle Translate iPhone app can put both sides on one PDF page. The certified translation is delivered in 2 to 3 business days with a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy and a QR verification page.
- My license shows dates as day-month-year. How are they handled?
- Dates are rendered unambiguously so the DMV records the correct date of birth, issue date, and expiration date. The original values are preserved exactly; nothing is reinterpreted or corrected.
- My driver's license was issued in Egypt. What should I know before ordering?
- Egyptian driving licences (رخصة قيادة, rukhsat qiyada) are issued by the traffic departments (المرور) of the Ministry of Interior and are separate from vehicle licences (رخصة مركبة); classes include private (خاصة) and professional (مهنية) licences. Gulf licences from the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are usually bilingual Arabic and English cards, Moroccan and Algerian licences (رخصة السياقة, permis de conduire) are in Arabic and French, and older Saudi licences may show Hijri dates. A translator converts digits, gives the Gregorian equivalent of any Hijri date, and translates licence classes and restrictions.
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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