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. Delaware has no USCIS field office of its own. The Philadelphia Field Office in Pennsylvania conducts interviews for Delaware residents, and USCIS operates an Application Support Center in Dover for biometrics appointments. 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 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, PA. Delaware has no USCIS field office of its own. The Philadelphia Field Office in Pennsylvania conducts interviews for Delaware residents, and USCIS operates an Application Support Center in Dover for biometrics appointments.
Immigration courts
- Philadelphia Immigration Court, Philadelphia, PA. Delaware has no immigration court. Cases for people living in Delaware are generally heard at the Philadelphia Immigration Court in the Robert Nix Federal Building, 900 Market Street, Philadelphia.
State rules
Apostilles and notarization in Delaware
Apostilles are issued by the Delaware Secretary of State through the Division of Corporations in Dover, which handles both apostilles for Hague Convention countries and certifications for non-Hague countries.
A private document must first be notarized by a Delaware notary public. The Division of Corporations will not accept documents that are notarized remotely or electronically for apostille.
The Division notes that foreign language documents require certified English translations, and it advises confirming requirements with the destination country before submitting a request.
Expedited fees apply only to commercial use orders, with 2 hour service at 500 dollars, same day at 50 dollars, and 24 hour at 40 dollars. Private use documents such as school transcripts, adoption papers, and death certificates are not charged expedited fees.
The base state fee is 30 dollars per document for an apostille or certification.
USCIS does not require notarized translations from Delaware applicants. The federal standard is a certified translation with a signed accuracy statement from the translator. Notarization matters in Delaware mainly when a document is headed for an apostille.
For a Delaware apostille, notarization must be done in person by a Delaware notary. The Division of Corporations rejects remotely or electronically notarized documents for apostille purposes.
Documents
Documents commonly translated for the Philadelphia Field Office
More than 1 in 10 Delaware residents are Hispanic or Latino. The 2020 Census counted 104,290, up from 73,221 in 2010 and 37,277 in 2000.
Georgetown in Sussex County is one of the best known Guatemalan communities on the East Coast, and Guatemala ranks among the top birthplaces of foreign born Delaware residents in Census survey data.
Spanish is by far the most common non-English language spoken in Delaware homes, with concentrations in Wilmington, Georgetown, and other parts of Sussex County.
How it works
Order online from anywhere in Delaware
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 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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