Farsi Translation Services

Prism Language Solutions translates Farsi documents into English and English into Farsi for use in the United States. The Persian of Iran is what we mean by Farsi here, and most of the work is certified: the shenasnameh identity booklet, national cards, marriage contracts, family court decisions, degrees and transcripts. Each comes back as a complete English translation with a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy, and every Iranian solar date is converted and checked against the passport.

Last reviewed September 11, 2026 by Sarah J, Prism Language Solutions

Iranian files fail on small things. The document set is not exotic and the Farsi is not difficult; what catches people out is a date that converts one day wrong, a name spelled two ways, or a booklet scanned front page only. Those are the three items an adjudicator can check in a minute without knowing any Persian at all, which is exactly why they are the three that stop a file.

• Certified translations prepared to meet USCIS requirements
• Human linguists only, matched to the subject
• Fixed written quote within 60 minutes in business hours
• One office in New York, linguists in every state

Farsi Translation of the Shenasnameh Identity Booklet

The shenasnameh is a booklet issued by the National Organization for Civil Registration, and it is a life record rather than a birth certificate. The first pages carry the birth entry. Later pages are filled in by hand as things happen: a marriage, a divorce, each child, eventually a death, with a registrar's stamp beside each entry. Older booklets are handwritten throughout with a red cover; newer ones carry a photograph and printed data.

Send every page, including the ones that are blank. A translation covering only the birth page is incomplete evidence of a marriage that is recorded on page seven, and a booklet delivered with no note about blank pages leaves an officer wondering what was left out. We translate each entry, render the stamps, and mark the blank pages as blank so the whole booklet is accounted for.

Certified Farsi Translation for USCIS

8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) is the rule: a Farsi document has to be filed with a full English translation certified by the translator as complete and accurate. Nothing in it calls for an Iranian official translator, a notarized original or a legalization stamp, which saves a good deal of money for families who have been told otherwise. Acceptance is decided by the receiving office. The service is described on the certified translation and USCIS translation pages.

• The shenasnameh in place of a birth certificate, plus the national identity card
• The aqd nameh marriage contract and any divorce judgment from a family court
• Passports, military service cards and police clearance certificates
• Degrees and transcripts for credential evaluation and employment petitions
• Medical records, arrest summonses and court papers supporting an asylum claim

Solar Hijri Dates in a Farsi Certified Translation

Iranian civil documents are dated in the Solar Hijri calendar, whose year begins at the spring equinox around 21 March. Conversion is not a fixed offset. A date in the first nine months of the Iranian year takes 621 added to the year; after the turn of the Gregorian year it takes 622. Get that wrong and a birth year lands twelve months out, which reads as an identity problem rather than an arithmetic one.

We convert every date, print the Iranian date beside the Gregorian one, and check the result against the passport before delivery. Where a document carries a lunar Hijri date as well, which happens on religious and older records, we identify which calendar each date belongs to instead of assuming.

Persian Name Spelling on a Certified Farsi Translation

Persian script writes short vowels only rarely, so an English spelling is a choice rather than a transcription. Mohammad, Mohammed and Muhammad are one name. So are Hosein and Hussein, Mehdi and Mahdi, Sadeghi and Sadeqi. A family that arrived over twenty years will have several of these in circulation, on green cards, school records and tax returns.

We spell to the passport, keep the Persian as printed, and add a note listing the other forms that appear in the same file. What we do not do is harmonize the documents so they agree. If the shenasnameh and the passport genuinely differ, that belongs in front of the attorney.

Iranian Official Translations and US Certified Farsi Translation

Iran licenses official translators through the judiciary, and inside Iran a translation is valid because it carries that translator's seal, often with confirmation from the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. That system has no bearing on a US filing. USCIS and American courts want the translator's own signed certification, not a foreign seal, and a document already translated in Tehran is usually retranslated here rather than patched.

The authentication route runs the other way as well. Iran is not in the Apostille Convention, so a US document going to Iran is authenticated by the state and the Department of State and then legalized in Washington at the Iranian interests office. An apostille alone is refused. Sanctions make paying a translation office inside Iran impractical for most people, and there is no US consular service in the country, so a fresh document usually has to be collected by a relative there. We are a US company, paid in the US; arranging that collection is not something we can do for you.

Farsi Translation Cost and Turnaround

Farsi has a deep enough pool of US-based translators to be quoted in the middle of the range rather than as a rare language. Certified documents of a page or two follow the per-page guide, from around $24.95 as a US market figure, and longer material is priced per source word. A shenasnameh with a handful of completed pages is usually back within 24 hours of a confirmed quote, and degrees and transcripts in two to three business days. Handwritten entries in an older booklet are what adds time, so send the clearest images you can. Ranges are on the pricing page.

Farsi Interpreters for Court, Medical and USCIS Appointments

Interpreting is a separate service with separate considerations, chiefly register and community ties. Persian-speaking circles in most US cities are small, and an asylum applicant who suspects the interpreter knows people back home will stop giving detail. See Farsi interpreters for how we screen for that, which states certify Farsi court interpreters, and how quickly an appointment can be covered.

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