Translation and Interpreting Services in Lincoln

Lincoln residents send documents to Prism Language Solutions online for certified translation and get the signed translation back by email, and we assign court, medical and USCIS interpreters from our nationwide network, in person from the Lincoln and Omaha area or remotely by phone and video. Everything is run from our office at 100 Church Street, New York, the only one we have. In Lincoln the public schools’ largest group of English learners has spoken Arabic or Kurdish, not Spanish.

Lincoln Public Schools shows the result. In 2018-19 its English language learner program had 2,962 students from about 150 countries speaking about 125 languages, and Arabic and Kurdish speakers made up 38.4 percent of them against 25.2 percent for Spanish. Kurdish-speaking students alone went from 63 to 532 between 2010-11 and 2018-19.

• 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

Kurdish and Arabic Translation in Lincoln

The first question on a Kurdish job is which Kurdish. Kurmanji translation, Behdini and Sorani are handled by different translators, and Kurdish can be written in more than one script. Ask the client which variety they read and speak, or send us a page and we will identify it before quoting.

Iraqi civil status documents are generally issued in Arabic, so much of a Yazidi or Iraqi family’s paperwork is Arabic translation rather than Kurdish. Names are the usual trap, because the same Yazidi or Kurdish name can be romanized several ways across a passport, a refugee travel document and an Iraqi certificate. We follow the spelling the client already uses on US documents and note any variants. For the spoken side, see Kurdish interpreter and Arabic interpreter.

Vietnamese Translation in Lincoln

Of the Asian languages the census names separately, Vietnamese is the largest in Lincoln. Its 2024 survey counts about 4,100 residents aged five and over who speak it at home, more than four times Omaha’s number, and about 2,700 of them, roughly two in three, report speaking English less than very well.

That makes a Vietnamese interpreter a routine booking for clinic visits, benefits appointments and court. Vietnamese translation for USCIS and state agencies needs every diacritic kept, since a dropped tone mark changes the name, and older records may use pre-1975 place names that we translate as written and explain in a note.

Court Interpreters for Lancaster County District Court

The Third Judicial District Court sits in the Justice and Law Enforcement Center at 575 South 10th Street, third floor, and hears felonies, domestic relations and paternity cases, larger civil claims and appeals from county court. Nebraska’s courts station an interpreter coordinator for Lancaster County who schedules interpreters for the courtroom.

The judicial branch’s 2019 plan lists the languages interpreted in Lancaster County, and beyond Spanish, Arabic and Kurdish it includes Burmese, Dinka, Farsi, Hmong, Indonesian, Juba Arabic, Karen, K’iche’, Krio, Nuer, Somali, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Outside the courtroom, for depositions, client meetings and exhibits, attorneys book their own; our court interpreting and legal translation cover that. Federal cases in Lincoln are heard at 100 Centennial Mall North.

Certified Translation for Lincoln USCIS Filings

Lincoln has no USCIS field office of its own. USCIS assigns Lincoln ZIP codes to the Omaha Field Office at 1717 Avenue H East, so an interview means the drive to Omaha, and removal cases are heard at the Omaha Immigration Court at the same address. Asylum interviews for Nebraska are handled by the Chicago Asylum Office.

A Yazidi family’s adjustment file or a Vietnamese parent’s naturalization case needs the same thing under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3): each foreign-language document translated into English in full and certified by the translator. Whether it is accepted is decided at the receiving office. See USCIS translation and marriage certificate translation.

Medical Interpreters for Bryan Health and CHI Health St. Elizabeth

Bryan Health runs two hospitals in Lincoln. CHI Health St. Elizabeth on South 70th Street, founded in 1889, is a 260-bed regional medical center with Nebraska’s only verified burn center. Both systems handle routine visits through their own interpreter arrangements.

Families and care teams call on us when the language is hard to cover remotely, Kurmanji or Karen for example, or when the conversation is long enough that a screen gets in the way: a prenatal consultation, an end-of-life discussion, a burn unit family meeting, or a mental health assessment after trauma. See medical interpreting and medical records translation.

Diploma Translation for University of Nebraska–Lincoln Applicants

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln enrolled 1,850 international students in 2024-25, the most of any campus in the state, and Nebraska Wesleyan, Union College and Southeast Community College add more. Admission, graduate study and state licensing all ask for credentials in English; see diploma translation and academic transcript translation.

For a Lincoln order, attach the scans to our quote form or phone +1 (833) 282 8883; the written, fixed quote is back inside 60 minutes during business hours. A short certificate is priced from around $24.95 a page as a guide (pricing).

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