Translation and Interpreting Services in Shreveport

People and organizations in Shreveport can get certified translation from Prism Language Solutions by uploading documents and receiving the signed English version by email, and interpreters for court, hospital and immigration settings are assigned from our nationwide network, in person where a linguist in north Louisiana is available and by phone or video otherwise. Our one and only office is in New York. Shreveport has fewer non-English speakers than south Louisiana, which makes remote interpreting more important here, not less.

Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish, had 187,593 residents in the 2020 census, the third largest city in Louisiana. Only about 7,150 residents aged five and over, 4.2 percent, speak a language other than English at home on the 2020-2024 American Community Survey. Spanish is about 3,740 of them, roughly 1,430 with limited English. After that the numbers fall quickly: Chinese at about 500, French at about 450, Tagalog at about 350, Arabic at about 300 and Vietnamese at about 250.

• 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 Caddo Parish First Judicial District Court

State cases in Shreveport are heard by the First Judicial District Court, whose records and minutes are kept by the Caddo Parish Clerk of Court at the courthouse, 501 Texas Street. Juvenile matters go to Caddo Parish Juvenile Court at 1835 Spring Street. Shreveport is also where appeals from twenty north Louisiana parishes go, to the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal, and it is the headquarters of the federal Western District of Louisiana.

Louisiana’s court language access plan places Caddo Parish courts in its second tier, behind the five south Louisiana parishes with the largest limited-English populations. Courts are asked to hire interpreters from the Louisiana Supreme Court’s certified list first, then its registered list, and only then an unlisted interpreter questioned on the record. For attorneys, we supply interpreters for depositions and client meetings and translate exhibits; see court interpreting and legal translation.

Medical Interpreters for Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport

The Ochsner LSU Health Academic Medical Center at 1541 Kings Highway is north Louisiana’s only Level I trauma center, and it was the first trauma center in the state recognized by the Louisiana Emergency Response Network for a pediatric trauma program. It is run through a partnership, formed in 2018, between LSU Health Shreveport and Ochsner Health that serves around two million people across north Louisiana.

As the region’s only Level I center, it receives patients from parishes where no interpreter may live nearby. We provide medical interpreters in person in Shreveport and by video remote interpreting for rarer languages and overnight admissions, and translate discharge instructions and consent forms that Section 1557 obliges federally funded providers to make accessible.

Spanish Translation and Interpreting in Shreveport

Spanish is the one language with steady volume in Shreveport. A Spanish interpreter is booked for hearings, depositions, workers’ compensation appointments and hospital stays, and Spanish translation covers the birth, marriage and police records that go with immigration and family cases. Tell us the country the documents come from so the translator reads the civil registry format correctly.

Families connected with nearby Barksdale Air Force Base who married or had children abroad may need foreign marriage and birth certificates translated, which calls for a certified translation rather than an interpreter; see marriage certificate translation.

Mandarin, Tagalog and Vietnamese Interpreters for Shreveport

For the languages spoken by a few hundred people each, the practical answer is remote interpreting. A Mandarin interpreter, a Tagalog interpreter or a Vietnamese interpreter can join a hearing or clinic visit by video, or by phone interpreting for a short call. For a trial or a long deposition, give us notice and we look for an interpreter who can attend in person.

Written work in these languages has no such constraint. Translation is done remotely anyway, so a Shreveport client gets the same Chinese or Vietnamese translator as a client in a large city.

Certified Translation for Shreveport USCIS Applicants

USCIS interviews for Louisiana are held at the New Orleans Field Office, 1250 Poydras Street, and your interview notice confirms the office. Affirmative asylum interviews are held by the New Orleans Asylum Office on Edenborn Avenue in Metairie, and applicants who cannot proceed in English must bring a qualified interpreter. For a Shreveport family that is a long drive, and the interpreter has to be booked to make the same trip.

Each document in a USCIS filing that is not in English must be translated in full and certified by the translator under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3). Our USCIS translations follow that rule, and acceptance rests with the receiving office.

Credential Evaluation Translation for LSUS Applicants in Shreveport

Louisiana State University Shreveport requires every international credential to arrive as a course-by-course evaluation sent directly by a member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services or the Association of International Credential Evaluators, and medical credentials go through the Federation Credentials Verification Service or the Federation of State Medical Boards. Evaluators generally need an English translation of any record not issued in English; WES, for one, requires exact, word-for-word translations by a professional. Centenary College and Southern University at Shreveport are also in the city.

For the evaluator, the academic transcript and diploma are translated in full, with the grading scale included. For a fixed written price, scan the records into the quote form or call +1 (833) 282 8883; it follows within 60 minutes during business hours.

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