Arabic Asylum Documents Translation
Arabic asylum documents translation for an I-589, an asylum office interview or a hearing before an immigration judge. Syrians, Iraqis, Yemenis, Sudanese and Egyptians each bring a different set of papers: a military service booklet, a wanted notice, a handwritten threat letter, a police complaint, a UNHCR certificate from Jordan or Egypt. We translate each in full into certified English, stamps and margins included.
- Up to 250 words per page
- $25 per page
- Standard turnaround
- From 24 hours
- Certificate of accuracy
- Signed & stamped
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Written for Arabic asylum documents records
What Arabic-speaking applicants actually bring
The evidence in an Arabic asylum file is rarely one official certificate. It is a mix of state records, photographed pages and private notes, and each has to be named for what it is.
Syria: the military booklet and the wanted notice
A Syrian man's claim often turns on his دفتر خدمة العلم, the military service booklet that records deferments, discharge or desertion, and on a reservist call-up from the شعبة التجنيد or a تعميم بحث, a search circular showing a security branch wants him. Most reach us as a WhatsApp photograph of a page a relative obtained in Damascus or Homs. We translate the branch name, the stamps and the handwritten entries, mark what the photo cuts off as illegible, and do not tidy a date the original leaves ambiguous.
Iraq: threat letters and the police complaint
Iraqi claims rest on paper no office issued: a threat letter pushed under a door, sometimes with a bullet or a militia's name, written in dialect in a deliberately crude hand. With it comes the إخبار, the complaint the family filed at the local مركز شرطة, and its referral to the قاضي التحقيق. We translate the letter word for word, keep the insults and the religious phrasing instead of softening them, and give the police record its register number and the officer's rank as printed, because an immigration judge compares the letter, the complaint and the declaration against each other.
Papers from the first country of refuge
Most Arabic-speaking applicants passed through Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt or Turkey first and hold registration there: a UNHCR certificate of registration, Jordan's Ministry of Interior service card for Syrians, a residency paper from Lebanese General Security, an Egyptian UNHCR card with a residence stamp. An asylum officer wants to know whether that status was protection, tolerance or a place in a queue. The translation states the issuing office and the document's own title, since a service card and a refugee status decision are not the same thing, and a file that calls both "refugee card" invites questions.
Who is asking for your Arabic asylum documents translation?
The translation is the same. What changes is whether the recipient wants anything added to it.
USCIS asylum offices
USCIS asks for a complete English translation of every foreign-language document and a signed certification from the translator. No notarization is needed.
Immigration courts
An immigration judge expects each exhibit translated in full and certified, filed with the original. Courts refuse summaries, so every page you file is translated whole.
IRCC
Refugee claims in Canada accept a certified translation with the translator's affidavit. Order the certified translation and add notarization if your application guide asks for it.
Before you upload
Three things that save a day of back and forth on a Arabic asylum documents.
Send every page, including the envelopes
Police reports, threat letters, medical reports and newspaper clippings each count. Postmarks and envelopes show when and where a letter was sent, so scan them too.
Keep handwritten pages readable
Letters and notes are often handwritten. Photograph each page flat in good light, and tell us any names or places that are hard to make out.
Give us the names as your application spells them
Your I-589 fixes the English spelling of your name and of each family member. Tell us that spelling so every document in the file matches.
Details and pricing
What is included in a Arabic asylum documents translation
One price per page covers the translation and its certification. A page is up to 250 words, and the quote tells you the page count before you pay.
Everything on the asylum documents is translated, including stamps, seals and handwritten notes. Tell us the English spelling you use for each name when you order.
Certified Translation
Word-for-word translation with a certificate of accuracy for official use.
$25
USD / page
up to 250 words per page
Included
- Signed & stamped certification of translation accuracy
- Certified by a professional translator
- Digital delivery via PDF
- Review and approve final translation
- 100% Guaranteed Acceptance
- Standard turnaround starting at 24 hours
Optional services
- Expedited turnaround
- Priority handling when your deadline is shorter than the standard turnaround.
- By deadline
- Notarization
- A notary public signs and stamps the certification statement.
- $20 per order
- Physical copy
- A wet-ink original of your translation, mailed by express courier.
- $35 per order
- Apostille
- Authenticates the notary’s signature and seal for use in Hague Convention countries.
- $180 per document
What the certificate of accuracy states
Your translation arrives with a Certification of Translation Accuracy issued by ImmiTranslate. It is the page the receiving organization checks first.
- The translation is complete and accurate.
- The document title and the language pair.
- The translator is competent in both languages.
- A signature and the ImmiTranslate certification stamp.
- Our American Translators Association corporate membership.
Our translation process
Our goal is to make the translation process as simple as possible for you. Our service is streamlined specifically for documents of this nature.
Arabic Asylum Documents FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- Can you translate my own statement if I wrote it in Arabic?
- Yes. Many applicants write their account in Arabic first and the attorney drafts the declaration from the English. We translate the statement as written, in the first person, with dialect idioms rendered by sense and a note where a phrase has no English equivalent. The attorney then edits the declaration, and our certified version stays in the file as the record of what you wrote. Do not shorten it before sending; a detail that seems minor is often what the officer asks about.
- I am Palestinian from Syria or Lebanon. What do my documents look like?
- Usually an UNRWA family registration card, a Syrian travel document for Palestinian refugees in place of a passport, and in Lebanon an identity card from the Directorate of Political Affairs and Refugees. None of these is a nationality, and the translation says so, with the issuing body named, because an officer who assumes a Syrian travel document means Syrian citizenship misreads the whole claim. We translate the card's family entries in full, since they are often the only record of who lived in the household.
- Some of my papers are only photographs on my phone. Can you work from those?
- Yes, and most Syrian and Yemeni evidence arrives that way. Send each photo at full size, both sides where a stamp or an entry continues on the back, and tell us the order they belong in. We translate what can be read and mark the rest illegible rather than guessing, and the certification describes the original as a photographed copy. A page is up to 250 words at $25, so a single photographed notice usually costs one page.
- How much does a certified translation cost?
- Certified translation is $25 per page, with a page counted as up to 250 words. Notarization, a mailed physical copy and an apostille are optional and priced separately.
- How long does a certified translation take?
- Standard turnaround starts at 24 hours and depends on the length and language of your documents. If you have a deadline, include it in your quote request.
Other Arabic documents we translate
Asylum documents translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's asylum documents records.
Sending it with an application? Read the USCIS translation requirements, IRCC translation requirements before you order.