Arabic to English
Certified Transcript Translation, Arabic to English
A certified Arabic to English translation of an academic transcript costs $24.95 per page, where one page is up to 250 words of the source document. A typical academic transcript runs 2 to 6 pages, so most orders come to $49.90 to $149.70. 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
Dense grade tables plus the grading key and reverse-side legends push most university transcripts to several 250-word pages; multi-year records run longer. Certified translation is $24.95 per page, so a typical order of 2 to 6 pages comes to $49.90 to $149.70. 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 academic transcript translation
- When filed with USCIS, the entire transcript must carry a full English translation certified by the translator as complete and accurate, plus the translator's certification of competence to translate from the source language into English (8 CFR 103.2(b)(3)).
- Every course row, credit value, grade, and total must be translated with nothing omitted or summarized; a transcript translation that drops rows or condenses tables is not a complete translation.
- The grading scale, key, or legend, often printed on the reverse side, must be translated because evaluators and admissions offices rely on it to interpret the grades.
- Grades and GPA must not be converted into the US system in the translation; grade conversion is performed by the credential evaluator, not the translator.
- Registrar seals, stamps, signatures, and handwritten annotations must be rendered or described, and the student's name and all dates copied exactly as printed, consistent across all pages and with the matching diploma translation.
- Illegible entries (smudged stamps, faint handwriting) are marked as illegible in the translation rather than reconstructed.
Common reasons translations get rejected
- Pages or the reverse side with the grading legend are left out, making the translation incomplete; incompleteness is a standard basis for rejection by evaluators and for a USCIS Request for Evidence.
- The translator converts grades to a US GPA or letter grades, which conflicts with the credential evaluator's conversion and can cause the evaluation or the petition record to be questioned.
- Rows are dropped from long grade tables or credit totals no longer match the original, so the receiver cannot reconcile the translation against the source document.
- Course and institution names are rendered inconsistently across pages or differ from the diploma translation, creating apparent discrepancies in the file.
- The translation lacks the translator's signed certification of completeness, accuracy, and competence required by 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) for USCIS filings.
Good to know
About Arabic-language academic transcripts
Arabic transcripts (كشف الدرجات, or كشف العلامات in the Levant, and بيان الدرجات) list course titles, credit hours (ساعات معتمدة), marks out of 100 or a GPA, and grade words. Credential evaluators need to read every translated course title and grade as well as the details of the institution and the applicant, so a translator translates every course title and keeps every mark, credit value and grading key exactly, converting Arabic-Indic digits. Evaluators such as WES usually want the transcript itself sent directly by the institution, with the translation provided separately.
Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian transcripts (relevé de notes, كشف النقط in Morocco, كشف النقاط in Algeria, كشف الأعداد in Tunisia) are often in French or bilingual, with marks out of 20 and mentions such as très bien, bien, assez bien and passable (in Moroccan Arabic حسن جدا, حسن, مستحسن and مقبول). The baccalauréat (البكالوريا) is the secondary school leaving certificate. A translator keeps the 20 point scale as written and does not convert it to a US grade, leaving equivalency to the credential evaluator.
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
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Step 2
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Step 3
Reviewed for accuracy and certified
Your translation is reviewed for accuracy and certified with a signed certificate of accuracy.
Step 4
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You receive your certified translation, ready for official use.
Questions
Common questions
- Do I need every semester and every page translated?
- Yes. USCIS requires a full English translation certified as complete and accurate, and evaluators such as WES require exact word-for-word translations. Omitting pages, semesters, or the grading legend is a common reason transcript translations are rejected.
- How many pages will my transcript come to?
- Pricing is per page of up to 250 source words, at 24.95 USD per certified page. We count the pages in your PDF and the words on them, and charge for whichever is higher. Most university transcripts come to 2 to 6 pages once the grade tables and the grading key are counted. Upload your document and the exact page count and price are shown before you pay.
- Is the grading scale on the back of my transcript translated too?
- Yes. The grading key or legend is part of the document and admissions offices and evaluators rely on it to interpret your grades, so it is translated along with everything else, including stamps and signatures.
- My transcript has handwritten notes and registrar stamps. Are they included?
- Yes. Handwritten annotations, seals, and stamps are translated or described in place. Anything genuinely unreadable is marked as illegible rather than guessed.
- My academic transcript was issued in Egypt. What should I know before ordering?
- Arabic transcripts (كشف الدرجات, or كشف العلامات in the Levant, and بيان الدرجات) list course titles, credit hours (ساعات معتمدة), marks out of 100 or a GPA, and grade words. Credential evaluators need to read every translated course title and grade as well as the details of the institution and the applicant, so a translator translates every course title and keeps every mark, credit value and grading key exactly, converting Arabic-Indic digits. Evaluators such as WES usually want the transcript itself sent directly by the institution, with the translation provided separately.
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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