Harlingen Field Office
Certified Translation for the USCIS Harlingen Field Office
Eagle Translate prepares certified translations of foreign language documents for filings handled by the USCIS Harlingen Field Office in Harlingen, TX. Serves the Rio Grande Valley. 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.
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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 Harlingen 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
- Harlingen Field Office, Harlingen. Serves the Rio Grande Valley.
Immigration courts
- Conroe Immigration Court, Conroe
- Dallas Immigration Court, Dallas
- El Paso Immigration Court, El Paso
- El Paso SPC Immigration Court, El Paso. Located at the El Paso Service Processing Center on Montana Avenue and hears detained cases.
- Fort Worth Immigration Adjudication Center, Fort Worth. EOIR lists this as Fort Worth IAC. It is an adjudication center where judges hear cases remotely, not a public walk-in court.
- Harlingen Immigration Court, Harlingen
- Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court, Houston
- Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court, Houston
- Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court, Houston
- Laredo Immigration Court, Laredo
- Pearsall Immigration Court, Pearsall. Sits at the South Texas ICE Processing Center and hears detained cases.
- Port Isabel Immigration Court, Los Fresnos. Sits at the Port Isabel Service Processing Center and hears detained cases.
- San Antonio Immigration Court, San Antonio
State rules
Apostilles and notarization in Texas
The Office of the Texas Secretary of State is the only agency in Texas that can issue certificates and apostilles authenticating Texas public records for use outside the United States. Requests are handled by its Authentications Unit.
Texas issues a single universal Apostille certificate that acts as both an apostille for Apostille Convention countries and an authentication for non-member countries. For non-member countries the document also needs further authentication from the Office of Authentications at the U.S. Department of State.
The fee is 15 dollars per universal Apostille. For international adoption proceedings the fee is 10 dollars per document, with total fees capped at 100 dollars per child.
Recordable documents such as birth and death certificates, marriage licenses, divorce decrees, and judgments must be certified copies issued by state or county officials, must be less than five years old, and cannot be notarized copies made by a notary public.
Notarization is a prerequisite for private, non-recordable documents. They must include a typed or written statement from the issuer or signer, and the signature must be properly notarized with a complete notarial certificate before the Secretary of State will apostille them.
To apostille a translation, Texas requires a typed or written statement from the translator about the translation, signed and properly notarized, and the notarized translation must be submitted together with a copy or the original of the source document.
The Texas Secretary of State does not apostille federal documents such as FBI background checks or Certificates of Naturalization, and does not apostille records issued by other states or countries. Federal documents go to the U.S. Department of State Office of Authentications.
In-person services for the Office of the Texas Secretary of State are located at 400 W. 15th Street in Austin. Mailed requests are paid by check or money order payable to the Secretary of State of Texas, and walk-in requests can also pay exact cash.
The Texas Secretary of State apostille FAQ states that if a document needs to be translated, a notary must witness the translator signing the translation, and the source document must be submitted with the notarized translation for authentication. So for apostille purposes in Texas, a translation must be notarized.
USCIS itself does not require notarized translations. Federal regulation requires a full English translation with the translator's certification of completeness, accuracy, and competence. Notarization only becomes relevant when a Texas office such as the Secretary of State, or a specific receiving office, asks for it.
Texas rejects apostille submissions containing the term Notario Publico or statements by a notary acting beyond their authority. Texas notaries may only witness signatures, administer oaths, take depositions, make certified copies of non-recordable documents, and protest instruments. They cannot verify a signer's legal capacity or draft documents.
Texas accepts online remote notarization (RON) documents for apostille if presented with a notarization ledger and a notarial certificate stating the document was notarized by two-way audio and visual communication, but some destination countries do not accept RON notarizations, so the receiving office should be consulted.
Documents
Documents commonly translated for the Harlingen Field Office
Germans were the largest ethnic group in Texas derived directly from Europe. German immigration began in the 1830s, and settlers clustered in a German Belt across south central Texas stretching from Galveston and Houston west to Kerrville, Mason, and Hondo in the Hill Country. In the 1990 census about 17.5 percent of Texans claimed full or partial German ancestry.
Hill Country towns such as New Braunfels and Fredericksburg were founded by German settlers in the 1840s, and the Texas German dialect survives among descendants and is actively documented by researchers.
Roughly 7 million Texans age 5 and over speak Spanish at home, the second largest Spanish-speaking population of any state after California, according to American Community Survey data.
About 35 percent of Texans age 5 and over speak a language other than English at home, and Spanish accounts for the large majority of that group.
Hispanic Texans became the state's largest population group in 2022 Census Bureau estimates, at roughly 40 percent of the state population.
Border cities such as El Paso, Laredo, McAllen, and Brownsville have some of the highest shares of Spanish spoken at home in the country, with Laredo regularly reported above 90 percent in American Community Survey data.
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Questions
Questions about translations for the Harlingen 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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