Arabic Deposition Translation
Arabic deposition translation for a US lawsuit with an Arabic-speaking witness, a transcript going to a client or a court in Cairo, Riyadh or Dubai, or testimony taken in an Arab country entering a US case. No Arab legal system has a pretrial deposition; witnesses are heard by a prosecutor, an investigating judge or the court itself, and the record is a محضر. We translate transcripts, محاضر and exhibits in both directions.
- 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 deposition records
A US deposition and an Arabic محضر are not the same document
The deposition is a verbatim record of questions and answers taken by lawyers. The Arabic record is written by an official, and the translation has to preserve who is speaking and in whose words.
Egypt: the prosecution's question and answer record
In Egypt a witness or a suspect is questioned by the النيابة العامة and the clerk writes it up as a محضر تحقيق in س and ج form, question and answer, in formal Arabic even when the witness spoke Cairene dialect. A police محضر from the قسم is shorter but built the same way, and both end with the witness's signature or thumbprint. When one enters a US custody case or a fraud claim, we translate it as an official record, keep the س and ج structure, and note that the Arabic is the clerk's rendering of speech, not a transcript.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE: Arabic-only courts
A deposition taken in New York or Houston from a party to a Gulf contract dispute often has to be filed in Riyadh or Dubai. Saudi courts and the onshore Dubai and Abu Dhabi courts work only in Arabic and take foreign documents only with a translation by a translator licensed there, a Ministry of Justice legal translator in the UAE or a certified translation office in Saudi Arabia. We hold neither license. Our Arabic version of the transcript lets counsel and the client prepare, and the filed copy is made locally. The DIFC and ADGM courts sit in English and need none of this.
Dialect in the room, Arabic on the page
An Arabic deponent in a US case testifies in Iraqi, Yemeni, Levantine or Egyptian dialect through an interpreter, and the certified transcript is the interpreter's English. Translating that transcript back into Arabic yields Modern Standard Arabic, not the words the witness used, and the translator's note says so. The dialect survives in the exhibits: WhatsApp threads, handwritten receipts, a Hijri-dated Saudi invoice, a contract whose Arabic text prevails. We translate those before the deposition so counsel can mark them, and keep page and line references intact.
Who is asking for your Arabic deposition translation?
The translation is the same. What changes is whether the recipient wants anything added to it.
Courts
A deposition filed in a US court needs a complete English translation with a signed certification from the translator. Some judges want it notarized as well, so check the local rules.
Bankruptcy courts
A Rule 2004 examination or a deposition in a bankruptcy case is filed with a certified translation of the testimony and of any foreign-language exhibits.
Courts abroad
Testimony taken in the US for a case in another country usually goes out with an apostille on the reporter's certificate and a translation into that country's language.
Before you upload
Three things that save a day of back and forth on a Arabic deposition.
Send the certified transcript, not the rough draft
Court reporters issue a rough draft first and the certified transcript later. Order the translation from the certified copy, with the reporter's certificate page.
Include the exhibits the witness was asked about
A deponent is often questioned on a letter or a contract marked as an exhibit. If those are in another language too, upload them in the same order so the terms are translated the same way.
Expect many pages and tell us the deadline
A transcript can run to a few hundred pages, and the quote counts words, not sheets. Upload the file to see the price before you pay, and put the filing date in the order notes.
Details and pricing
What is included in a Arabic deposition 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 deposition 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 Deposition FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- The witness wants to read the transcript in Arabic before signing. Is your translation enough for that?
- Yes. The English transcript remains the record, and the errata sheet is completed in English, but a deponent who reads Arabic better than English checks their testimony against our Arabic version, page and line numbers matching. Where the interpreter's English and the witness's memory of the Arabic diverge, the correction goes on the errata sheet; our job is to make the English readable to the person who said it.
- Do you translate witness testimony from a Jordanian or Saudi court for a US case?
- Yes. From Jordan it is usually the statement taken by the المدعي العام or the hearing minutes, محضر الجلسة. From Saudi Arabia there is often no separate transcript: the judge summarizes what the witnesses said inside the صك الحكم, the judgment deed, dated in Hijri. We translate the record as issued, add the Gregorian date beside each Hijri one, and keep the court's third-person summary as a summary rather than rewriting it as testimony.
- Our dispute is in arbitration at CRCICA in Cairo or DIAC in Dubai. What do you translate?
- The witness statements, the Arabic exhibits and, if the language of the arbitration is Arabic, the English witness statements going the other way. Arbitration clauses set the language, and a tribunal seated in Cairo or Dubai may still run in English with Arabic documents attached. Whether a certified translation from us satisfies the tribunal is set by its procedural order, so send us that order with the documents and we will match its format.
- 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
Deposition translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's deposition records.
Sending it with an application? Read the Certified translations before you order.