Philadelphia Field Office
Certified Translation for the USCIS Philadelphia Field Office
Eagle Translate prepares certified translations of foreign language documents for filings handled by the USCIS Philadelphia Field Office in Philadelphia, PA. Serves eastern and central Pennsylvania, including the Philadelphia metro, Lehigh Valley, and Harrisburg areas, and also serves Delaware. Direct uscis.gov verification was blocked this session; corroborated by current secondary listings. 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
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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 Philadelphia 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
- Philadelphia Field Office, Philadelphia. Serves eastern and central Pennsylvania, including the Philadelphia metro, Lehigh Valley, and Harrisburg areas, and also serves Delaware. Direct uscis.gov verification was blocked this session; corroborated by current secondary listings.
Immigration courts
- Philadelphia Immigration Court, Philadelphia. Located at 900 Market Street, Suite 504, Philadelphia, PA 19107. The York Immigration Court closed on July 30, 2021 after the York County Prison lease ended, and its cases were transferred (EOIR closure notice: https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/1412706/dl).
State rules
Apostilles and notarization in Pennsylvania
Apostilles and certifications for Pennsylvania documents are prepared by the Secretary of the Commonwealth through the Department of State's Office of Notaries, Commissions and Legislation, in the North Office Building in Harrisburg.
The fee is 15 dollars per document, payable to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Standard mail processing takes about two to three weeks.
Diplomas, transcripts, and criminal record checks must be notarized by a Pennsylvania notary public before the state will attach an apostille. Birth certificates should not be notarized. County-issued documents must be signed by the clerk in charge of the county office, not an assistant or deputy.
Pennsylvania issues apostilles for countries in the 1961 Hague Convention and certifications for non-member countries, which may need further consular legalization. The state's redesigned apostille adds Spanish and French translations to each section of the certificate.
For USCIS filings from Pennsylvania, notarization is not required. USCIS requires a certified translation, meaning the translator signs a statement of competence and accuracy; that signed certification, not a notary seal, is what USCIS looks for.
In Pennsylvania's apostille chain, diplomas, transcripts, and criminal record checks must first be notarized by a Pennsylvania notary public, while birth certificates must not be notarized.
Pennsylvania notaries operate under the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts (RULONA). When a translation is notarized for use abroad, the notarial act covers the translator's signature, not the content or accuracy of the translation.
Documents
Documents commonly translated for the Philadelphia Field Office
Spanish is Pennsylvania's most spoken language after English. Philadelphia has one of the largest Puerto Rican communities in the nation, and Reading and Allentown both have Latino majorities.
Pennsylvania has the largest Amish population in the United States, and Pennsylvania Dutch, a German dialect, is still spoken daily in Lancaster County and nearby areas. German-language church, birth, and property records are common in Pennsylvania archives.
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh have large, long-established Italian American communities. Philadelphia's Italian Market in South Philadelphia is among the oldest continuously operating outdoor markets in the country.
How it works
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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.
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$24.95 per page, certified, delivered in 2 to 3 business days.
Questions
Questions about translations for the Philadelphia 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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