Translation and Interpreting Services in Miami

Prism Language Solutions supplies Spanish, Haitian Creole and Portuguese interpreters across Miami-Dade County from linguists who live there, and delivers certified translation for the USCIS Miami Field Office, the Miami Asylum Office on Biscayne Boulevard and the immigration courts downtown and at Krome by email. The company has one office, in New York. Three quarters of the county speaks a language other than English at home, so the question in Miami is rarely whether an interpreter exists; it is whether the right variety of Spanish, or a Mam speaker for Homestead, can be found by Tuesday.

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

Miami is the one US metro where English is the minority language at home. The 2024 American Community Survey has 2.03 million Miami-Dade residents aged five and over, 75.7 percent, speaking a language other than English, and 55 percent of the county foreign-born; the 2020 survey put Spanish at 66.5 percent and French or Haitian Creole at 4.9 percent. Half the county’s public school students speak Spanish at home and one in twenty speaks Haitian Creole. The bilingual paralegal is everywhere; what reaches an agency is the work that needs more than bilingual: a certified interpreter for a deposition, a Creole interpreter who can hold a medical register.

Bookings are staffed from Miami-Dade and Broward linguists nearest the address, with the credential matched to the setting, and confirmed in writing within the hour on a business day.

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Spanish and Haitian Creole Court Interpreters in Miami

The Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida is Miami-Dade County, working from eleven courthouse facilities. Felonies, larger civil claims, family and probate matters go to the Circuit Court; misdemeanors, county civil claims, small claims, evictions and traffic to the County Court, which shares the same buildings. Civil work sits at the Dade County Courthouse, 73 West Flagler Street, criminal work at the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building, 1351 NW 12th Street, family and probate at the Lawson E. Thomas Courthouse Center. The circuit’s Department of Translation and Interpretation covers proceedings, and its public notices are issued in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.

What the court does not cover is what a Miami attorney books: depositions in Brickell, examinations under oath for insurers, mediations, client meetings before an arraignment. Cuban, Venezuelan, Colombian, Nicaraguan and Dominican Spanish sit at the same deposition table here, and an interpreter who stumbles on one of them slows the record, so we ask who the witness is before we assign. Private agency, not on any court’s list. See court interpreting.

Certified Translation for USCIS Miami Field Office

City residents are interviewed for naturalization and green cards at the Miami Field Office, 8801 NW 7th Avenue, and for asylum at the Miami Asylum Office, 1501 Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 300, which covers all of Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. The rule at each is 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3): a full English translation of every foreign-language document, certified as complete and accurate. Miami files are Cuban, Venezuelan, Haitian, Colombian, Nicaraguan and Brazilian: Cuban certificaciones from the Registro Civil, Venezuelan actas with their apostilles, Haitian extraits and actes from the Archives Nationales. The Haitian documents are where files go wrong, because the extrait, the acte and a late-registered jugement are three different records and applicants send one thinking it is another. A birth certificate translation takes a business day; the set by form is under USCIS translation, apostilled records under apostille translation.

Immigration Court Interpreters in Miami and at Krome

Miami has two EOIR courts: the Miami Immigration Court at One River View Square, 333 South Miami Avenue, and the Krome detained court at 18201 SW 12th Street on the western edge of the county. EOIR supplies the interpreter for the hearing; counsel supplies everything else, which in a detained case means an interpreter for the legal visit at Krome, the declaration and the bond preparation, often at a day’s notice. Haitian Creole is the Miami-specific pressure: the docket is heavy with Haitian respondents and the pool of court-experienced Creole interpreters is thin. We keep court-experienced Haitian Creole interpreters for exactly this.

Medical Interpreters for Jackson Memorial and Baptist Health

Jackson Memorial Hospital, run by Miami-Dade County through the Public Health Trust and the teaching hospital of the University of Miami, has 1,488 beds and was ranked the largest hospital in the country by bed count in 2021. Baptist Health South Florida, headquartered in Coral Gables with eleven hospitals across three counties, is the second-largest employer in the state. Both provide interpreters at no charge under 45 CFR 92.201, mostly through contracted phone and video, and Spanish is largely covered by bilingual staff. The bookings that reach us are the ones staff cannot absorb: a scheduled in-person Haitian Creole interpreter for a series of oncology visits at Jackson, a Mam interpreter for a farmworker family at the Homestead hospital. See medical interpreting and medical translation.

Spanish Translation in Miami

Spanish translation in Miami is Caribbean and South American rather than Mexican: Cuban and Dominican civil records, Venezuelan and Colombian documents that arrive apostilled, Argentine and Peruvian degrees for licensing boards, and a large commercial stream, since Latin American companies keep their US offices here. A Spanish interpreter is chosen by variety: a Cuban witness and a Venezuelan attorney in one deposition is an ordinary Tuesday. Portuguese translation and a Portuguese interpreter serve the Brazilian community around Aventura; French and a French interpreter cover French and Canadian clients as well as Haitian professionals; Russian in Sunny Isles, Hebrew and Italian follow.

Haitian Creole Translation in Miami

The Miami metro held 335,708 people of Haitian ancestry in the 2020 five-year ACS, the largest Haitian community in the country, centered on Little Haiti, North Miami and Miami Gardens. Haitian Creole translation is mostly civil records for USCIS, TPS and family petitions, school records for Miami-Dade County Public Schools, which itself issues registration forms in Creole, and medical records. Haitian civil records are in French while the applicant speaks Creole, so the translator needs both; and a court or hospital Haitian Creole interpreter must handle legal and clinical vocabulary that everyday Creole borrows inconsistently.

Mam Interpreters for Homestead and South Dade

Homestead and the farming districts of South Dade employ Guatemalan Maya families whose first language is Mam, K’iche’ or Q’anjob’al, and the county’s Spanish-saturated services routinely miss them: a Mam speaker is booked as a Spanish speaker, manages the easy questions and loses the one that matters. This is the request Miami clinics, schools and immigration attorneys bring to a New York agency. A Mam interpreter can join a Homestead appointment by video the same day and in person for a hearing.

Translation for FIU and Miami Resettlement Agencies

Florida International University enrolls about 55,800 students, 4,808 of them international in 2024-25, and with the University of Miami keeps diploma translation and transcript translation for admissions and licensing boards steady. The International Rescue Committee’s Miami office, open since 1960 and past 25,000 refugees served, now concentrates on trafficking survivors and unaccompanied minors, whose caseworkers need Creole, Spanish and Portuguese interpreters at short notice; phone and video cover most of that the same day (guide rates).

Ready to start? Send the document or the booking details through the quote form, call +1 (833) 282 8883, or email info@prismlinguistics.com. You get a fixed written price within 60 minutes during business hours.

Questions we get asked

Does the Miami-Dade court provide a Haitian Creole interpreter?

For the proceeding itself, yes, through the Eleventh Circuit's Department of Translation and Interpretation. Depositions, client meetings, mediation and examinations under oath are not covered, and that is what we supply.

Where are the USCIS offices for Miami?

Naturalization and green card interviews are at the Miami Field Office, 8801 NW 7th Avenue. Asylum interviews are at the Miami Asylum Office, 1501 Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 300, which covers all of Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

Can you interpret at Krome?

Yes. We place interpreters for attorney visits and bond preparation at Krome, most often in Haitian Creole and Spanish, and by video where the facility allows it. Give us the visit window and we confirm the interpreter in writing.

Is there a Miami branch I can bring documents to?

No. Prism works from one office in New York. Upload a scan through the quote form and the certified PDF is emailed back; local linguists cover in-person interpreting.