Translation and Interpreting Services in Reno

In Reno, Prism Language Solutions takes certified translation orders online and sends the certified file back by email, and it staffs court, medical and USCIS interpreting from a nationwide network, with a northern Nevada linguist for in-person sessions and phone or video where that works better. Our only office is on Church Street in lower Manhattan. Reno’s courts ask for Spanish every day, and their language lists also include Pacific Island languages such as Marshallese and Chuukese.

Northern Nevada also answers to different federal offices from Las Vegas. Washoe County has its own USCIS field office, and asylum cases from here are decided in San Francisco rather than in Southern California, which matters when you plan a filing or an interview.

• 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

Court Interpreters for the Second Judicial District Court

The Second Judicial District Court sits at 75 Court Street for general jurisdiction cases and at One South Sierra Street for its Family Division. Its Language Access Services department handles about 1,200 hearings a year that need an interpreter, free of charge, and extends that to the law library, the filing office, specialty courts, pretrial services and mediation.

The department lists 27 languages it provides, and the list tells you who comes through the door: alongside Spanish and ASL are Tagalog, Ilocano, Hmong, Mien, Lao, Punjabi, Bengali, Tongan, Samoan and Amharic. For the work around a hearing, such as client meetings, depositions and translated exhibits, counsel books privately, and that is where a court interpreter from our network comes in. See also legal translation.

Reno Justice Court Interpreters

Reno Justice Court, also at One South Sierra Street, employs a full-time certified Spanish interpreter and contracts certified Spanish interpreters when that person is unavailable. For any other language, short matters such as traffic cases and arraignments go to a telephone interpreter, and the court schedules an in-person or video interpreter for the next appearance, preferring interpreters on the state roster.

In fiscal 2023-24 the court also needed Marshallese, Samoan, Russian, Haitian Creole, Chuukese and Amuzgo, an Indigenous language of southern Mexico that no Spanish interpreter can cover. If your client speaks a language like Amuzgo, say so at the first contact, not at the courthouse door, and we will look for a speaker in the network and connect by video remote interpreting if nobody is local.

Marshallese and Chuukese Interpreters in Reno

Pacific Island languages appear on both Washoe County court lists: Tongan and Samoan at the district court, Marshallese, Samoan and Chuukese at the justice court. None of them is among the languages Nevada has offered for certification or registration, so a court qualifies the interpreter on the record, and an attorney preparing a witness has to find one independently.

Rare languages like these are where an agency earns its fee. We supply a Marshallese interpreter or a Chuukese interpreter, usually by video, and translate letters, statements and records through Marshallese translation and Chuukese translation. A Tongan interpreter or Samoan interpreter is booked the same way.

Certified Translation for the USCIS Reno Field Office

Reno ZIP codes are assigned to the USCIS Reno Field Office at 790 Sandhill Road, which conducts adjustment and naturalization interviews for northern Nevada. Affirmative asylum applicants from Washoe County are interviewed through the San Francisco Asylum Office at 75 Hawthorne Street, which covers most Nevada counties outside the Las Vegas area.

Under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), a document in another language goes in with a complete English translation and the translator’s certification that it is accurate and that they are competent to translate it. Acceptance rests with the officer. See USCIS translation and marriage certificate translation.

Medical Interpreters for Renown and Saint Mary’s

Renown Regional Medical Center on Mill Street, 650 beds, is the region’s only Level II trauma center and houses Renown Children’s Hospital; it teaches for the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine. Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center on West Sixth Street, owned by Prime Healthcare since 2012, is a teaching hospital affiliated with the same medical school.

Hospitals handle most encounters through their own contracted lines. We are called for in-person medical interpreting when a phone will not do, for example with a trauma patient’s family, in a pediatric consult, or in a Pacific Island or Afghan language the line cannot staff at short notice. Medical records translation covers histories and vaccination cards.

Dari, Ukrainian and Swahili Interpreters for Reno Refugee Resettlement

The Northern Nevada International Center, part of the University of Nevada, Reno, has resettled more than 1,200 people in Reno since August 2016, from countries including Afghanistan, Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria and El Salvador. It also runs a Language Bank that the justice court consults when it looks for interpreters.

For caseworkers and attorneys, those arrivals mean a Dari interpreter, Ukrainian translation of civil records, a Swahili interpreter or French for Congolese families, and Arabic translation for Syrian documents. State the country and region when you book, since Dari and Pashto, or Swahili and Kinyarwanda, are not substitutes for each other.

Diploma Translation for the University of Nevada, Reno

The University of Nevada, Reno enrolled 912 international students in 2024-25, and Truckee Meadows Community College another 62. Degree certificates and mark sheets for admission, and later for professional licensing, go through diploma translation and academic transcript translation.

Guide pricing begins around $24.95 a page for short certificates, and pricing lists the rest. Pages can be uploaded on the quote form, or call +1 (833) 282 8883 for a fixed written quote within 60 minutes in business hours.

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