Translation and Interpreting Services in Austin

Austin clients get certified translation from Prism Language Solutions by email, and court, medical and USCIS interpreters are assigned from our nationwide network, with a linguist from the Austin area for in-person jobs and phone or video where that works better. The company runs everything from one office, at 100 Church Street in New York. Spanish is the bulk of Austin work, but the school district’s second home language is Pashto, and Dari, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Arabic and Portuguese complete its top seven.

The 2024 American Community Survey puts 314,098 Austin residents aged five and over, a third of the total, in homes where a language other than English is spoken. Spanish accounts for 203,613 of them, Chinese for 15,841, Vietnamese for 8,046 and Korean for 6,543. About 215,000 residents were born abroad, and after Mexico the leading country of birth is India, followed by Honduras and China.

• 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

Pashto and Dari Interpreters in Austin

Pashto and Dari are separate languages, and a Farsi speaker is not a safe stand-in for either, even though Dari and Farsi are close. Before booking, ask the client which language they want to use for the appointment. A Pashto interpreter or a Dari interpreter can be on site in Austin where one is available, and by video when not.

Austin Public Health runs a refugee services clinic that screens newly arrived refugees, asylees and Special Immigrant Visa holders and helps established clients with the I-693 medical form; its web pages are published in Pashto, Urdu, Arabic, Burmese, Tigrinya and Nepali among others. Written work for Afghan families typically includes tazkiras, marriage certificates and school records, handled through Pashto translation and Dari translation.

Court Interpreters for Travis County Courts

Felony and misdemeanor cases are heard at the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center, 509 West 11th Street. The civil and family courts sit a few blocks away at 1700 Guadalupe Street. The Western District of Texas hears Austin’s federal cases downtown at 501 West Fifth Street.

Certified Translation for the USCIS San Antonio Field Office

Austin has no USCIS field office. The agency’s ZIP code table sends Travis County addresses to the San Antonio Field Office at 20760 North US Highway 281, a drive of well over an hour south, so an interview day is a long one. Affirmative asylum interviews for Texas are held by the Houston Asylum Office, and the nearest immigration court is the San Antonio Immigration Court, 800 Dolorosa Street.

Each foreign-language document in a filing must be accompanied by a full English translation and the translator’s signed certificate of accuracy (8 CFR 103.2(b)(3)). The Austin mix is Mexican and Honduran civil records, Indian and Chinese certificates and degrees, Vietnamese household records, and Afghan documents in Pashto and Dari. We translate every stamp and annotation; USCIS decides acceptance. See USCIS translation and birth certificate translation.

Medical Interpreters for Dell Seton and Austin Hospitals

Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas opened in May 2017 to replace Brackenridge Hospital as the city’s public teaching hospital. Ascension Seton operates it in partnership with Central Health, it is the teaching hospital for UT’s Dell Medical School, and it is the only adult Level I trauma center for an 11-county Central Texas region.

Hospitals carry the interpreting duty under Section 1557 (45 CFR 92.201) and meet most of it by phone and video. An in-person medical interpreter is the better choice for a trauma family meeting, a psychiatric evaluation or a birth, particularly in Pashto, Dari or Burmese. Records from abroad go through medical translation.

Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean Translation in Austin

Diploma Translation for UT Austin Applicants

The University of Texas at Austin enrolled 7,409 international students in 2024-25, among the five largest totals in Texas. Statewide, India supplies 43.9 percent of international students, followed by China, Nepal, Mexico and Vietnam. That shapes Austin’s diploma translation and academic transcript translation: Indian marksheets, Chinese graduation and degree certificates, Nepali and Vietnamese transcripts.

For an Austin price, attach the files to the quote form or call +1 (833) 282 8883 for a fixed written price, normally within 60 minutes in business hours. Guide figures: short certificates from around $24.95 a page, and on-site interpreting that typically runs $45 to $95 an hour with a two-hour minimum (pricing).

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