Georgian Translation Services

Prism Language Solutions translates Georgian documents into English for immigration, asylum and academic use in the United States. The language here is Kartvelian, written in Mkhedruli script and spoken in the Caucasus, not the US state. Most files are civil registry certificates from the Public Service Development Agency, Soviet-era records in Georgian and Russian, and evidence for an asylum claim. Each is translated in full and certified.

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

Georgian is a small language with a sharp recent rise in US demand, and the jobs that arrive are rarely routine. Asylum files, adoption paperwork, a medical degree being evaluated, a duplicate birth certificate ordered from abroad by a daughter in Philadelphia for a mother who cannot travel. There are not many people in this country who can read a handwritten Georgian court record, which is why we ask for the whole file before quoting rather than the first page.

• 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

Certified Georgian Translation for USCIS

8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) asks for the complete document in English and a signed statement that the translator is competent and the work accurate. On Georgian records that means both language fields of a Soviet form, the issuing authority exactly as printed, the personal number, the seal text and anything written in by hand. We do not modernise an authority that no longer exists into its current successor, because the name on the paper is part of what dates it. What goes on the signed certificate is set out under certified translation.

• Birth and marriage certificates, current or reissued from the register
• Divorce judgments and death certificates
• Police clearance certificates and identity documents
• Court judgments, police reports and medical reports filed as asylum evidence
• Diplomas and transcripts, including Soviet-era diploma appendices

Georgian Civil Registry Certificate Translation

Civil status in Georgia is handled by the Public Service Development Agency, a legal entity under the Ministry of Justice created in 2012 out of the former Civil Registry Agency. It keeps the population register, registers births, marriages, divorces and deaths, issues identity documents and reissues certificates, and the public meets it at a Public Service Hall or a community centre branch rather than at a registry office.

One consequence catches families out. A duplicate certificate ordered this year carries the current agency's name and this year's date even when the event was registered in 1975, so the document looks new and the event is old. That is normal, it is not a red flag, and the translation shows the registration date and the issue date as two separate things.

Soviet-Era Georgian Certificate Translation

Anything issued before independence is a Soviet form with Georgian and Russian fields, completed by hand, stamped by an authority that has not existed for more than thirty years. Both languages get translated, not just the one the client can read. The Russian field usually carries the patronymic, and it frequently carries a different spelling of the family name than the Georgian field does.

Handwriting is the practical obstacle. Georgian cursive and Russian cursive on the same page, faded, sometimes overwritten by a later correction, is slow work and an honest quote says so. Where a character genuinely cannot be read we mark it illegible rather than guessing, which is the only defensible thing to do with a document that will be relied on as evidence.

Mkhedruli Script and Georgian Name Spelling in Translation

There is more than one way to put a Georgian name into Latin letters, and the difference is not cosmetic. The national romanisation adopted in 2002 is what sits behind a current Georgian passport. Older American paperwork, Russian-issued documents and family affidavits often carry a Russian-mediated form of the same name, so Giorgi on one page and Georgiy on another are one man, and Kartvelishvili can appear with or without the final vowel.

We spell to the passport throughout a file and record the other forms in a translator's note. Doing it the other way round, translating each document on its own terms, produces a set of papers that no adjudicator can confidently attach to one person. If the client has no passport, tell us which spelling the petition already uses and we will hold to that.

Georgian Court and Police Document Translation for Asylum Claims

A large share of the Georgian work we take is asylum evidence: police protocols, prosecutor's decisions, court rulings, hospital discharge notes and summonses. The register of those documents is bureaucratic and formulaic, and the temptation is to smooth it into readable English. That is the wrong instinct. A vague official phrase stays vague, a procedural term is rendered and explained rather than swapped for an American equivalent, and a document that contradicts the declaration is translated as it stands.

We also keep the layout: reference numbers, the order of signatures, and the handwritten additions in the margin, which in Georgian police paperwork can carry the detail the whole claim rests on. Attorneys filing in immigration court usually want a translator's declaration with the bundle; that comes with the legal translation service.

Georgian Apostille and Certified Document Translation

Georgia joined the Apostille Convention in 2006 and it entered into force there in May 2007, so a Georgian public document can be apostilled instead of legalised through a consulate. Which body issues the apostille depends on the document, and people lose weeks to this: the Public Service Development Agency handles public documents generally, the National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement handles diplomas and other educational documents, and documents issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs service agency are apostilled by that agency.

So a client sending a birth certificate and a medical diploma is dealing with two different authorities. An apostille is not part of what USCIS asks for, but a state licensing board, a university or a credential evaluator may want one. It is obtained in Georgia on the original, before translation, and we translate it with the document. See apostille translation.

Georgian Translation Cost and Turnaround

A short certified Georgian document is quoted from around $24.95 per page as a US market guide, and longer material by the source word from about $0.10. A printed civil registry certificate is normally back within 24 hours of a confirmed quote. Handwritten Soviet-era records, court files and asylum bundles take three to five business days, because the pool of translators who read Georgian legal hand is small and the reading is the work. Give us the filing date at intake and we will say plainly whether it is achievable. Ranges by document type are listed on the pricing page.

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