Translation and Interpreting Services in Berkeley

Berkeley students, families and attorneys order certified translation from Prism Language Solutions for any address in the city, and we send court, medical and USCIS interpreters from our nationwide network, an East Bay linguist in person or a remote one by phone or video. The company has a single office, in New York at 100 Church Street. Berkeley work leans toward documents more than interpreting: university records, estate papers and immigration evidence in Chinese, Spanish, Korean, Hindi and dozens of other languages.

That ratio shapes what we are asked for here: certified translations of transcripts, degree certificates, wills, bank statements and civil records, usually for a university, an estate or a federal agency, with interpreting booked for specific hearings and appointments.

• 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

Transcript and Diploma Translation for UC Berkeley Applicants

UC Berkeley hosted 12,020 international students in 2024-25, second in California after the University of Southern California, and across the state 35.4 percent of international students come from China and 20.9 percent from India. Graduate applicants whose records are not in English, and whose university does not issue its own translation, must upload translations made either by a certified translator of the American Translators Association or by the Ministry of Education, or submit a WES credential evaluation.

Probate Translation and Interpreters at the Berkeley Courthouse

The Alameda County Superior Court’s Berkeley Courthouse, at 2120 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, is a probate building: departments 201 and 202 hear probate, conservatorship and guardianship matters. That is a narrow docket, and it runs on foreign documents. An estate may turn on a will written in Chinese, a death certificate from Seoul, a bank statement from Mumbai or a property deed from Tehran; a guardianship may need a parent’s consent executed abroad.

We translate each document in full, stamps and endorsements included, and prepare the certification the attorney files with the petition. For hearings, the court supplies its own interpreter; for the family meeting where an heir abroad joins by video, or the conservatorship interview with an elderly Cantonese-speaking parent, the attorney books us. See legal translation, death certificate translation and bank statement translation.

USCIS Translation for Berkeley Green Card and Asylum Cases

USCIS sends Berkeley ZIP codes to the San Francisco Field Office at 630 Sansome Street, across the bay. An affirmative asylum claim is heard at 75 Hawthorne Street, in the San Francisco Asylum Office, and removal cases for the region have been heard at the Concord Immigration Court since the San Francisco immigration court closed in May 2026.

Under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), each foreign document in an application needs a full English translation and a translator’s signed certification. Berkeley files are often employment or family cases with academic records attached, so a single packet can hold a Chinese notarial birth certificate, an Indian degree certificate and a Korean family relation certificate. See USCIS translation.

Medical Interpreters for Alta Bates and Berkeley Public Health

Berkeley is one of only a handful of California cities that runs its own public health department rather than relying on the county; its Public Health Division dates to 1880. The city’s hospital is Sutter Health’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Alta Bates Campus, at 2450 Ashby Avenue, and Sutter has announced plans to replace it with a new campus in Emeryville.

Both operate under 45 CFR 92.201 and provide interpreters for their own services. Outside interpreters are booked by private practices, therapists, home health agencies and the families of patients who want the same person at every appointment. See medical interpreting and video remote interpreting.

Chinese and Spanish Translation in Berkeley

Most Berkeley translations are delivered by email as signed PDFs, with notarized hard copies posted when a university or foreign authority insists on paper. Send scans through our quote form or phone +1 (833) 282 8883 and you will have a fixed price inside an hour during business hours.

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