Chicago Field Office
Certified Translation for the USCIS Chicago Field Office
Eagle Translate prepares certified translations of foreign language documents for filings handled by the USCIS Chicago Field Office in Chicago, IL. Located at 101 West Ida B. Wells Drive, Chicago. Serves most of Illinois; USCIS assigns parts of southern Illinois to the St. Louis, MO Field Office and parts of western Illinois to the Des Moines, IA Field Office by ZIP code, so applicants should follow their appointment notice. We are an independent translation company and are not affiliated with USCIS or with any government agency. A certified translation costs $24.95 per page of up to 250 words, with no separate certification fee, and is delivered in 2 to 3 business days as a PDF holding the complete translation and a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy.
Pricing
Exact prices, shown before you pay
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.
Filing locally
Filing at the USCIS Chicago Field Office
Your certified translation is delivered as a PDF you file yourself, so it works with every office below. Nothing needs to be picked up and there is no local counter to visit, because the whole service is online.
USCIS field offices
- Chicago Field Office, Chicago. Located at 101 West Ida B. Wells Drive, Chicago. Serves most of Illinois; USCIS assigns parts of southern Illinois to the St. Louis, MO Field Office and parts of western Illinois to the Des Moines, IA Field Office by ZIP code, so applicants should follow their appointment notice.
Immigration courts
- Chicago Immigration Court, Chicago. 55 E. Monroe Street, Suite 1500; EOIR's operational status page also lists a Clark Street hearing location for Chicago.
State rules
Apostilles and notarization in Illinois
Apostilles in Illinois are issued by the Illinois Secretary of State Index Department. It issues apostilles for countries in the Hague Apostille Convention and Certificates of Authority for countries that are not, with the same fee and requirements for both.
The fee is 2 dollars per apostille or certificate, and each document requires its own separate apostille or certificate. Mail requests take 7 to 14 business days; in-person requests are usually processed while you wait.
Before authentication, documents must be certified by a government official or notarized by an Illinois Notary Public. For transcripts and diplomas, the school's records official must certify and sign the record in the presence of a notary who then notarizes that statement.
Requests can be mailed to the Index Department at 160 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 100, Chicago, or made in person at the Springfield office (2701 S. Dirksen Parkway), the Chicago office, and select DMV+ locations in Chicago, Aurora, Champaign, Lake Zurich, and Melrose Park.
The Secretary of State states it does not provide translation services and that a document needing translation must be translated and notarized before applying for authentication. Illinois does not require a county-level certification step before the state apostille.
USCIS itself does not require notarized translations for Illinois filings. It requires a certified translation, meaning the translator signs a statement attesting that the translation is complete and accurate and that they are competent to translate.
Notarization still matters in Illinois for the apostille chain: the Secretary of State requires a translated document to be notarized before it can be authenticated for use abroad.
Illinois law authorizes electronic and remote notarization under rules administered by the Illinois Secretary of State.
Documents
Documents commonly translated for the Chicago Field Office
Spanish is by far the most spoken non-English language in Illinois, with well over a million Spanish speakers statewide according to American Community Survey data.
Chicago has one of the largest Mexican-origin communities in the United States and a major Puerto Rican community, concentrated in neighborhoods such as Pilsen, Little Village, and Humboldt Park.
The Chicago metro area has deep German and Italian immigrant heritage, and families still handle vital records and inheritance documents from Germany and Italy.
How it works
Order online from anywhere in Illinois
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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.
$24.95 per page, certified, delivered in 2 to 3 business days.
Questions
Questions about translations for the Chicago Field Office
- Will a translation from Eagle Translate be accepted here?
- Every certified translation we deliver carries the translator's signed statement that the translation is complete and accurate and that the translator is competent to translate, which is the certification 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) requires for a foreign language document filed with USCIS. The officer reviewing your file decides on your evidence, and we do not speak for USCIS.
- Do I file the original document as well as the translation?
- Keep the original. A certified translation is filed alongside the foreign language document rather than in place of it, and it is common to be asked for both. The certificate names the source document it belongs to, so the two can be matched to each other.
- What happens to stamps, seals, and signatures?
- They are not dropped. Stamps, seals, signatures, and reference codes are described in bracketed form at the position they hold in the original, and the page structure is preserved, so a reviewer can set the translation beside the source document and follow it line by line.
- How is terminology from another country's legal system handled?
- A term with no exact United States equivalent is rendered to carry the meaning it has in the system that issued it, rather than swapped for an American term that would change what the document says. Where a term needs explaining, the explanation sits in brackets beside it instead of replacing it.
- A document has been asked for at short notice. How quickly can it be done?
- Certified delivery is 2 to 3 business days. Through 31 December 2026 the upgrade to Premium 1 to 2 business days delivery is applied automatically at the Certified price, so the faster option costs the same as the standard one.
- What does the certificate attest to?
- It attests to the accuracy of the translation. It states in those words that it does not attest to the authenticity of the source document or to the truth of its contents. That boundary is what makes it a certification a reviewer can rely on rather than a claim about your evidence.
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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