Chinese to English
Certified Medical Records Translation, Chinese to English
A certified Chinese to English translation of medical records costs $24.95 per page of the source document, whatever the number of characters on it. A typical medical record set run 1 to 20 pages, so most orders come to $24.95 to $499.00. 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
A vaccination card is usually 1 page, a discharge summary 2 to 5, and a full treatment history can run well past 20 pages of 250 words. Certified translation is $24.95 per page, so a typical order of 1 to 20 pages comes to $24.95 to $499.00. 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 medical record translation
- Any foreign-language medical record submitted to USCIS must carry a full English translation certified as complete and accurate by a translator who certifies competence to translate (8 CFR 103.2(b)(3)).
- In immigration court, foreign-language medical evidence must be accompanied by an English translation and a signed translator certification that is printed legibly or typed (8 CFR 1003.33).
- Handwritten clinical notes are translated where legible, and illegible passages are marked [illegible] rather than reconstructed.
- Medical abbreviations are rendered into standard English medical terminology, and genuinely ambiguous abbreviations are flagged rather than guessed.
- Medication names are reproduced as written; standard practice is to add the international nonproprietary (generic) name in brackets when the foreign brand name would be unrecognizable to a US clinician.
- Laboratory values, units, and reference ranges are reproduced exactly as printed, with no unit conversion, so US clinicians see the same numbers the original lab reported.
- Clinic letterheads, physician stamps, license numbers, and signatures are identified in bracketed descriptions and their text translated, since they establish who issued the record.
Common reasons translations get rejected
- Guessing at illegible handwriting instead of marking it [illegible] produces an inaccurate rendering that can be challenged against the translator's accuracy certification.
- Mistranslated vaccine names on a vaccination record can prevent the civil surgeon from crediting prior doses on Form I-693, leading to repeated vaccinations or exam delays.
- Translating only a summary or selected pages when the receiver asked for the complete record leaves foreign-language content unaddressed and does not meet the full-translation rule for whatever is submitted.
- Dropping physician stamps, license numbers, or signatures from the translation removes the marks that show who issued the record and invites authenticity questions.
- Errors in dosages, units, or abbreviation expansion are both a clinical safety issue and a credibility issue for the evidence.
Good to know
About Chinese-language medical records
China's Medical Records Management Rules (2013) define medical records (病历, bingli) as outpatient and emergency records and inpatient records, give electronic records the same effect as paper ones, and require copies supplied to a patient to be checked by both sides and stamped with the institution's certification mark. Common parts include the admission record (入院记录), physician's orders (医嘱单), operation record (手术记录), discharge record (出院记录), pathology and laboratory reports, and the separate diagnosis certificate (诊断证明书, zhenduan zhengmingshu). A qualified translator keeps drug names, test values and units exactly, expands abbreviations only when certain, and marks illegible handwriting as [illegible].
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
From upload to certified delivery
Step 1
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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
- Do you translate lab reports with all the numbers and reference ranges?
- Yes. Values, units, and reference ranges are reproduced exactly as printed, with no unit conversion, so a US clinician or officer sees the same numbers the original lab reported.
- What happens with medical abbreviations and drug names?
- Abbreviations are rendered into standard English medical terminology, and ambiguous ones are flagged rather than guessed. Drug names stay as written, with the generic name added in brackets when the foreign brand name would be unrecognizable in the US.
- How many pages will my medical records come to?
- A page is up to 250 source words. A vaccination card is usually 1 page, a discharge summary typically 2 to 5, and a full treatment history can run far longer. Certified translation is 24.95 USD per page. We count the pages in your PDF and the words on them, and charge for whichever is higher.
- Can I just get a summary translated instead of the whole record?
- For USCIS and the courts, whatever document you submit must be fully translated; a summary rendering of a submitted record does not meet the rule. You can choose to submit only the relevant records, but each document you submit is translated completely.
- My medical record was issued in China. What should I know before ordering?
- China's Medical Records Management Rules (2013) define medical records (病历, bingli) as outpatient and emergency records and inpatient records, give electronic records the same effect as paper ones, and require copies supplied to a patient to be checked by both sides and stamped with the institution's certification mark. Common parts include the admission record (入院记录), physician's orders (医嘱单), operation record (手术记录), discharge record (出院记录), pathology and laboratory reports, and the separate diagnosis certificate (诊断证明书, zhenduan zhengmingshu). A qualified translator keeps drug names, test values and units exactly, expands abbreviations only when certain, and marks illegible handwriting as [illegible].
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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