Norfolk Field Office
Certified Translation for the USCIS Norfolk Field Office
Eagle Translate prepares certified translations of foreign language documents for filings handled by the USCIS Norfolk Field Office in Norfolk, VA. Located at 5678 East Virginia Beach Boulevard, Norfolk, VA. USCIS office data also assigns some southwest Virginia ZIP codes to the Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham offices in North Carolina, so residents there should check 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 Norfolk 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
- Norfolk Field Office, Norfolk. Located at 5678 East Virginia Beach Boulevard, Norfolk, VA. USCIS office data also assigns some southwest Virginia ZIP codes to the Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham offices in North Carolina, so residents there should check their appointment notice.
Immigration courts
- Annandale Immigration Court, Annandale
- Sterling Immigration Court, Sterling
State rules
Apostilles and notarization in Virginia
Apostilles for Virginia documents are issued by the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Authentication Division, in Richmond. Depending on the destination country, the office issues either an Apostille for Hague Convention countries or a Great Seal certification for others. The office recently relocated to 400 East Cary Street, Richmond.
The fee is $10.00 per document, not per page, payable to the Secretary of the Commonwealth. When several documents are signed by the same official or notary, the fee is $10.00 for the first document and $5.00 for each additional one. Drop-box submissions are processed and returned within 5 to 7 business days.
The authentication verifies only that the Virginia notary, Virginia clerk of court, or Virginia Deputy State Registrar is in good standing and handled the document correctly. Out-of-state documents cannot be certified in Virginia, and federal documents, including FBI records, must go to the US Department of State instead.
Virginia affixes the apostille to the document by staple, a method the office notes is expressly permitted under the Hague Convention, and the office does not require a document to be translated before it is submitted for authentication.
For immigration filings from Virginia, whether through the Washington Field Office in Fairfax or the Norfolk Field Office, USCIS requires a certified translation, not a notarized one. The translator's signed certification of accuracy and competence is the federal standard.
For a Virginia apostille, documents in languages other than English are accepted, but the notarization itself must be in English. The Secretary of the Commonwealth's office does not provide notary or translation services.
For notarized documents used within the United States rather than abroad, Virginia's state-level authentication does not apply. Instead, a Notary Certification of Good Standing comes from the circuit court where the notary took their oath.
Virginia was the first state to authorize remote online notarization, with legislation passed in 2011 that took effect in 2012, so remotely notarized Virginia documents are an established part of the state's practice.
Documents
Documents commonly translated for the Norfolk Field Office
Spanish is the most widely spoken language other than English in Virginia, with especially large Spanish-speaking communities in Northern Virginia jurisdictions such as Fairfax, Prince William, and Arlington counties and the city of Alexandria.
The Washington DC metropolitan area, which includes Northern Virginia, is home to one of the larger Turkish American communities in the United States, alongside sizable French-speaking and Portuguese-speaking populations tied to the region's international and diplomatic workforce.
How it works
Order online from anywhere in Virginia
Step 1
Upload and get an instant quote
Send us your document, choose your languages, and see your price right away.
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 Norfolk 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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