Uzbek Translation Services

Prism Language Solutions translates Uzbek documents into English for immigration, asylum and academic use in the United States. A single family's papers usually span two alphabets and two languages: Cyrillic Uzbek and Russian on the older records, Latin Uzbek on anything recent. We translate the whole set together, hold one spelling of each name across it, and sign a Certificate of Translation Accuracy for every document.

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

Uzbek has gone from an occasional request to a weekly one, and the files are heavier than they look. An asylum bundle from Tashkent or the Ferghana Valley can run to sixty pages of summonses, detention records, medical notes and property papers, in a mixture of scripts, most of it produced on a typewriter or filled in by hand.

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• 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 Uzbek Translation for USCIS

The rule at 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) is a complete English translation with a signed statement of competence and accuracy, and complete is where Uzbek files come apart. A Soviet-era certificate carries two language columns and both are part of the document. A ZAGS certificate carries a series and number, a record number, the office name and a stamp, and the reverse often carries a later annotation. Leaving any of it out is the usual route to a Request for Evidence. The signed certificate is explained under certified translation.

• Birth, marriage and death certificates from a ZAGS office, current or Soviet-era
• Divorce decrees and court judgments
• Police summonses, detention records and prosecutor's decisions filed as asylum evidence
• Diplomas and transcripts from Tashkent and regional universities
• Work books, employment letters and bank statements supporting a petition

Uzbek Document Translation Across the Cyrillic and Latin Scripts

Uzbek has changed alphabet three times in a century, and the current change is not finished. The practical result is that the script on a document dates it, and a translator has to read all of them. Our Uzbek translators work in both scripts and in Russian, which is not a given in this language pair and is the first thing to ask any provider.

The transition date matters because the two systems spell the same name differently. Gulyamov in a Cyrillic record is G'ulomov in a Latin one, and a name written Xolmatov in Latin Uzbek comes out as Kholmatov when it is romanised through Russian. Neither version is wrong.

Uzbek ZAGS Certificate Translation

Births, marriages, divorces and deaths in Uzbekistan are registered by the civil registry offices known as ZAGS, and in Uzbek as FHDYo. Soviet-era records were issued by the ZAGS of the Uzbek SSR, an authority that no longer exists, and we translate that name as printed rather than replacing it with today's equivalent. The date of registration and the date the certificate was issued are shown separately, which matters because reissued certificates are common and carry a recent date.

Where a certificate has been corrected, the correction usually appears as a marginal note or a stamp on the reverse. Photograph both sides. A surprising share of the Uzbek documents we are sent arrive as a front-only phone picture with the annotation missing.

Uzbek Names and Patronymics on a Certified Translation

Russian-language records from Uzbekistan carry a patronymic: Rustamovich for a man, Rustamovna for a woman, sitting in the position where an American form expects a middle name. Latin-script Uzbek records often drop it altogether. An officer holding a 1988 birth certificate and a 2024 passport needs to see how the two relate, so we keep the patronymic where the document has it, show it as a patronymic rather than a middle name, and note its absence where a later document has dropped it.

The spelling rule is the same one we apply to every language: match the current passport, reproduce the original form, and flag the difference to whoever is building the file. We do not quietly reconcile two documents that genuinely disagree.

Uzbek Work Record and Employment Document Translation

Labor migration shapes a lot of Uzbek paperwork. Millions of Uzbek citizens have worked in Russia and Kazakhstan, and the documents that record it follow the Soviet pattern: a work book with sequential employment entries, each stamped, sometimes with the entries in Russian and the covers in Uzbek. Those books turn up in US files as proof of employment history for a work visa, as evidence of time spent outside the country, and in probate and pension matters.

They are fiddly rather than difficult. Every entry, every order number and every stamp gets translated, in order, because the value of the document is the sequence. The same applies to employer letters and salary records supporting an affidavit of support, covered on the document translation page.

Uzbek Apostille and Certified Document Translation

Uzbekistan acceded to the Apostille Convention in July 2011 and it took effect there in April 2012, so a consular legalisation chain is no longer needed for a member country. Apostilles on civil registry and justice documents are issued by the regional justice departments, the Tashkent city justice department, and the Ministry of Justice of Karakalpakstan for documents from that republic.

Nothing in the USCIS requirement calls for an apostille on a foreign civil document, so do not hold a filing to chase one. Universities, licensing boards and foreign authorities are another matter, and in those cases the apostille is obtained in Uzbekistan on the original and translated with it. The sequence is on the apostille translation page.

Uzbek Translation Cost and Turnaround

A short certified Uzbek 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 certificate is normally back within 24 hours of a confirmed quote. Handwritten Soviet-era records, work books and asylum bundles take three to five business days, and a large bundle is worth splitting so the urgent exhibits come first. Current ranges are set out on the pricing page.

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