Chinese to English
Certified Transcript Translation, Chinese to English
A certified Chinese to English translation of an academic transcript costs $24.95 per page of the source document, whatever the number of characters on it. 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 Chinese-language academic transcripts
Mainland university transcripts (成绩单, chengjidan) are issued by the academic affairs office (教务处, jiaowuchu) under its red seal, often in a sealed envelope. They list each course with its credits (学分, xuefen), course type such as 必修 (required) or 选修 (elective), and a grade given either as a percentage (百分制) or as a level such as 优秀 (excellent), 良好 (good), 中等 (fair), 及格 (pass) or 不及格 (fail). WES states that applicants with Chinese higher education must have their transcripts verified by CHESICC (now CSSD) and sent to WES. A qualified translator translates grade words literally and does not convert them to a US GPA.
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
- Will you convert my grades to a US GPA?
- No. A certified translation is a word-for-word rendering of your transcript, including the original grades and grading scale. Converting grades to the US system is the role of a credential evaluator such as WES; a translation that converts grades can conflict with the evaluation.
- 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 academic transcript was issued in China. What should I know before ordering?
- Mainland university transcripts (成绩单, chengjidan) are issued by the academic affairs office (教务处, jiaowuchu) under its red seal, often in a sealed envelope. They list each course with its credits (学分, xuefen), course type such as 必修 (required) or 选修 (elective), and a grade given either as a percentage (百分制) or as a level such as 优秀 (excellent), 良好 (good), 中等 (fair), 及格 (pass) or 不及格 (fail). WES states that applicants with Chinese higher education must have their transcripts verified by CHESICC (now CSSD) and sent to WES. A qualified translator translates grade words literally and does not convert them to a US GPA.
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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