Translation & Interpreting Services
Prism Linguistics is a translation agency headquartered in Manhattan, providing translation and interpreting services in 326 languages across all 50 states. Certified translations are prepared to meet USCIS requirements, interpreters are background-checked, and a written quote arrives within 60 minutes during business hours. The scheduling desk runs 24/7.
Law firms send us depositions and discovery documents. Hospitals book medical interpreters for ER intakes and scheduled procedures. Immigration applicants order certified translations of birth certificates and diplomas. Every project is handled by a qualified human linguist — not machine output, not "AI-assisted" shortcuts on documents bound for USCIS, US federal and state courts, or accredited credential evaluators.
One number, 326 languages, 60-minute written quotes. Call +1 (833) 282 8883, email info@prismlinguistics.com, or upload a document for a binding price within the hour.
Prism Linguistics in Numbers
The four numbers US clients ask about first.
Interpreting Services: On-Site, Telephone, Video, and Personal
Court-experienced interpreters for depositions, USCIS interviews, medical appointments, and conferences. Pick the delivery mode that fits the setting; we staff the rest.
Face-to-Face Interpreting
An interpreter in the room for depositions, court hearings, medical appointments, and site visits. The right call when body language and documents are in play.
View service →Telephone Interpreting
On-demand telephone interpreting, billed per minute and available around the clock. Used daily by hospitals, help desks, and government offices.
View service →Conference Interpreting
Simultaneous and consecutive interpreting for conferences, shareholder meetings, and multi-language events, with booth equipment coordinated as needed.
View service →Private Interpreting
Personal interpreters for weddings, real-estate closings, parent-teacher conferences, and family medical visits. Discreet, background-checked, punctual.
View service →| Mode | Best for | Typical notice | Pricing basis |
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| Face-to-face | Depositions, court hearings, medical procedures, USCIS interviews | 24 to 48 hours in major metros | Hourly, usually with a 2-hour minimum |
| Telephone | ER intakes, help lines, short client calls, after-hours emergencies | On demand, 24/7 | Per minute |
| Video remote | Remote hearings, telehealth, multi-office meetings | Usually same or next day | Per session or hourly |
| Conference | Simultaneous interpreting for events and shareholder meetings | 1 to 2 weeks for booth teams | Half-day or full-day rate |
Not sure which fits? Describe the setting when you call and the scheduling desk will tell you what other clients in the same situation book. A custody hearing is not a shareholder call; the mode, the interpreter profile, and the price all change with the setting. In most cases the choice is obvious within a minute.
Translation Services for Documents, Websites, and Media
Written work follows a three-stage workflow: translation, independent editing by a second linguist, then proofreading. That is the process on every project, certified or not.
Document Translation
Civil records, legal contracts, medical files, technical manuals, and marketing copy in 326 languages.
View service →Certified Translation
USCIS-compliant certified translation with a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy on letterhead.
View service →Website Translation
Marketing pages, product pages, in-app strings, and transactional emails in engineering-friendly formats.
View service →Brochure Translation
Brochures, catalogs, and print collateral translated and typeset so the finished layout matches the original.
View service →Localization
Cultural, regulatory, and tone-of-voice adaptation for the US market and beyond, past literal translation.
View service →Audio Transcription
Interviews, body-cam audio, and dictation transcribed verbatim or time-stamped, with optional certified English translation.
View service →Video Transcription
Video transcribed and translated for subtitles, captions, depositions, and compliance archives.
View service →Our translators work exclusively into their mother tongue, and each one carries documented subject-matter experience before they touch client work. A patent claim, a discharge summary, and a product catalog are three different jobs, so they go to three different people. Formats are rarely a problem: we return Word, PDF, InDesign, XLIFF, and subtitle files, and for websites we can work directly from your export so nothing has to be copied and pasted twice.
Certified Translation for USCIS, Courts, and Universities
The paperwork side of immigration, admissions, and licensing, done in the format US institutions expect.
Every certified translation we deliver includes a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy: a statement on company letterhead confirming the translation is complete and correct and that the translator is competent in both languages. That is the format USCIS officers expect, and it is what universities, state licensing boards, and credential evaluators such as WES and ECE ask for.
Birth certificates, marriage certificates, divorce decrees, diplomas, transcripts, police clearances, bank statements: a typical immigration file contains a stack of them, and one missing certification line can trigger a Request for Evidence that delays a case by months. Our translations are prepared to meet USCIS requirements and are commonly accepted by USCIS, immigration courts (EOIR), and universities. Acceptance ultimately depends on the receiving institution, which is exactly why we follow the published requirements to the letter.
- Signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy with every order
- Prepared in the form a notary public needs, ready for your apostille application through the Secretary of State (we do not provide notary or apostille services ourselves)
- As a guide, certified translation starts at around $24.95 per page; your quote confirms the exact price
- Rush delivery available for short standard documents, subject to capacity
Who orders certified translation? Immigration attorneys building an adjustment-of-status file. Graduate applicants sending transcripts to WES or ECE for credential evaluation. HR teams verifying a foreign diploma. People renewing a license at the DMV or claiming benefits at the SSA with a foreign-language birth certificate. The documents differ; the requirement is usually the same, and in most cases a certified translation of a one-page record ships within 2 business days.
Read more about certified translation services, or go straight to a language page such as certified Spanish translation.
Industries We Serve Across the United States
Specialist linguists matched by US sector experience, not just by language pair. Title VI and Section 1557 language-access obligations are daily work for us, not fine print.
Legal
Depositions, court filings, contracts, USCIS evidence, EOIR hearings.
Healthcare
HIPAA-aligned medical records, ER interpreting, clinical trials, IFUs.
Financial
Audit reports, prospectuses, regulatory filings, KYC documents.
Police & Law Enforcement
Witness statements, body-cam transcripts, DA case preparation.
Business
Contracts, websites, marketing, internal communications.
Media
Subtitling, dubbing, voice-over, podcast localization.
How to Order a Translation or Book an Interpreter
Five steps from first contact to delivery. Most quotes go out in under an hour.
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Tell us what you need
Use the online quote form or call +1 (833) 282 8883. Tell us the language pair, the document type or interpreting setting, and your deadline.
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Get a written quote in 60 minutes
A project manager replies within 60 minutes during business hours with the price, the turnaround, and any compliance notes, such as USCIS certification or a HIPAA agreement.
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We assign a qualified linguist
Your job goes to a native-speaker linguist with documented experience in your subject: legal, medical, technical, or business.
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Independent review before delivery
A second linguist checks every translation for accuracy, terminology, and consistency before it leaves us. Interpreter assignments are confirmed with credentials in advance.
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Delivery and follow-up
Files arrive in your required format; certified hardcopies ship by USPS or FedEx on request. If a US institution requests a revision, we make it free of charge.
Popular Languages for US Clients
Roughly one in five US residents speaks a language other than English at home. These are the languages our US clients book most often.
Spanish leads by a wide margin, from Spanish translation services for business to court-ready certified Spanish translation for USCIS filings. Demand for the rest tracks local demographics: Vietnamese and Mandarin in Houston and the Bay Area, Haitian Creole in South Florida, Polish in Chicago, Arabic in metro Detroit. Each language page covers interpreters, certified translation, and the cities we staff.
Languages We Cover
All 326 languages we support. Click any name for translation, interpreting, and certified services in that language.
- Acholi
- Afar
- Afghan Persian
- Afrikaans
- Akan
- Albanian
- Alsatian
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Aramaic
- Armenian
- Ashante
- Assamese
- Assyrian
- Aymara
- Azerbaijani
- Azeri
- Bahasa Melayu
- Bajuni
- Baluchi
- Bambara
- Bandjabi
- Bangla
- Bashkir
- Basque
- Behdini
- Belorussian
- Bemba
- Bengali
- Berber
- Bhojpuri
- Bicol
- Bosnian
- Breton
- Bubi
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Burushaski
- Cakchiquel
- Cambodian
- Cantonese
- Carolinian
- Castilian
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Chaldean
- Chamorro
- Chaochow
- Chavacano
- Cherokee
- Chichewa
- Chin
- Chinese
- Chuukese
- Corsican
- Cree
- Creole
- Crioulo
- Croatian
- Czech
- Damara
- Danish
- Dari
- Dinka
- Diula
- Djerma
- Dogri
- Dutch
- Dzongkha
- Edo
- Eskimo
- Estonian
- Ethiopian
- Ewe
- Fang
- Faroese
- Farsi
- Fijian Hindi
- Finnish
- Flemish
- French
- French Canadian
- Frisian
- Fukienese
- Fula
- Fulani
- Fuzhou
- Gaddang
- Gaelic
- Gagauz
- Galole
- Garifuna
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Greenlandic
- Guaragigna
- Guarani
- Gujarati
- Hainan
- Haitian Creole
- Hakka
- Hakka China
- Hassaniyya
- Hausa
- Hebrew
- Herero
- Hiligaynonor Ilonggo
- Hindi
- Hmong
- Hokkien
- Hunanese
- Hungarian
- Ibanag
- Ibo
- Icelandic
- Igbo
- Ilocano
- Indonesian
- Inuktitut
- Irish
- Ishan
- Italian
- Jakartanese
- Japanese
- Javanese
- Jola
- Kabye
- Kanjobal
- Kannada
- Kaonda
- Kapingamarangi
- Karen
- Karenni
- Kashmiri
- Kazakh
- Kekchi
- Khmer Cambodian
- Kikongo
- Kikuyu
- Kingwana
- Kinyarwanda
- Kirghiz
- Kirundi
- Kiswahili
- Kiunguju
- Korean
- Kosovan
- Krio
- Krygyz
- Kurdish
- Kurmanji
- Laotian
- Latin
- Latin American
- Latvian
- Lingala
- Lithuanian
- Lomwe
- Lozi
- Luganda
- Lunda
- Luo
- Luvale
- Luxembourgeois
- Maay
- Macedonian
- Mahorian
- Maithili
- Makhuwa
- Malagasy
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Maldivian Dhivehi
- Maltese
- Mam
- Mambae
- Mandarin
- Mandingo
- Mandinka
- Manx
- Maori
- Marathi
- Marshallese
- Masai
- Mayan
- Mende
- Mien
- Mina
- Minbei
- Minnan
- Mirandese
- Mirpuri
- Mixteco
- Mizo
- Moldavan
- Monegasque
- Mongolian
- Montenegrin
- Moroccan Arabic
- Moshi Dagomba
- Myene
- Nahuatl
- Nauruan
- Navajo
- Ndebele
- Neapolitan
- Nepali
- Nigerian
- Nilo-Hamitic
- Niuean
- Norwegian
- Nubian
- Nuer
- Nukuoro
- Nyanja
- Nzebi
- Oriya
- Oromigna
- Oromo
- Pahari
- Pampangan
- Panassina
- Papiamento
- Pashto
- Pedi
- Persian
- Pitcairnese
- Pohnpeian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Portuguese Brazilian
- Portuguese Creole
- Portunol
- Pothwari
- Pulaar
- Punjabi
- Quichua
- Romani
- Romanian
- Russian
- Samoan
- Sangho
- Sanskrit
- Sara
- Sena
- Sepedi
- Serbian
- Serbian Croatian
- Sesotho
- Setswana
- Shangane
- Shanghainese
- Shikomoro
- Shona
- Sichuan
- Sicilian
- Sindebele
- Sindhi
- Sinhalese
- Siraiki
- Siswati
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Somali
- Soninke
- Sorani
- Sotho
- Spanish
- Sranang Tongo
- Sudanese Arabic
- Susu
- Swahili
- Swazi
- Swedish
- Sylhetti
- Tabedawie
- Tagalog
- Tahitian
- Taiwanese
- Tajik
- Tama
- Tamil
- Tatar
- Telugu
- Temne
- Tetum
- Thai
- Tibetan
- Tigre
- Tigrinya
- Tobi
- Toishanese
- Tokelauan
- Tongan
- Trukese
- Tshiluba
- Tshivenda
- Tswana
- Turkish
- Tuvaluan
- Twi
- Ukrainian
- Ulithian
- Urdu
- Uyghur
- Uzbek
- Vasekela Bushman
- Venda
- Vietnamese
- Visayan
- Vlach
- Wallisian
- Waray
- Welsh
- Wenzhou
- Woleaian
- Wolof
- Wu
- Xhosa
- Xiang
- Xitsonga
- Yapese
- Yiddish
- Yoruba
- Yue
- Yupik
- Zulu
Nationwide Coverage: All 50 States
Headquartered in Tribeca, staffed coast to coast.
Our office sits at 100 Church Street in Manhattan, but the work happens everywhere: a deposition in Houston, a parent-teacher conference in Chicago, an ER intake in Miami. We schedule on-site interpreters in every major US metro, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Miami, San Francisco, Washington DC, Boston, Atlanta, Seattle, Phoenix, and Philadelphia. Telephone and video interpreting, and all translation services, reach every ZIP code.
Coverage matters most when the setting is regulated. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and Section 1557 of the ACA require federally funded organizations to provide meaningful language access, and that obligation applies at a county DMV office in Phoenix just as it does at a teaching hospital in Boston. Courts, SSA offices, school districts, and health systems book us because we can staff the assignment where it actually happens, usually on the first request.
Browse the cities we cover, or jump to a language-city page:
Native Translators and Court-Experienced Interpreters
Why US clients stay with Prism Linguistics: six things we engineer against on every project, because these are the failure modes that actually cost money.
USCIS-Compliant Certification
Signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy in the format USCIS officers expect, reducing translation-related Requests for Evidence.
Native Human Linguists Only
No machine output, no junior linguists on certified work, no "AI-assisted" shortcuts on filings bound for US institutions.
Three-Stage Quality Workflow
Translation, independent editing by a second bilingual reviewer, then proofreading. Three sets of trained eyes on every certified project.
HIPAA-Aligned for Healthcare
Protected Health Information handled under restricted-access teams and encrypted transfer. Business Associate Agreements available.
24/7 Urgent Scheduling Desk
A real human at the scheduling desk around the clock for urgent legal, medical, and USCIS bookings, weekends and US public holidays included.
Free Revision Policy
If a US institution requests a correction to a translation we produced, we revise and re-issue at no additional cost, with no time limit.
A note on credentials, because buyers ask: the US ecosystem includes ATA certification for translators, NAJIT and state court certification programs for legal interpreters, and RID for American Sign Language. Our linguists are professionally qualified and background-checked, court-experienced where the work demands it, and certified where the setting requires it. If your assignment needs a specific credential, say so in the quote request and we will match it or tell you honestly that we cannot.
What US Clients Say
A few of the reviews behind our 4.6 out of 5 rating. More on the our clients page.
Fast and professional. USCIS accepted our certified translation without any issues.
Immigration client · New York
The interpreter was prepared, professional and on time. Easy to book again for the next deposition.
Litigation paralegal · New Jersey
Same-day Spanish interpreter for hospital triage. Connected within minutes, exactly as promised.
Hospital coordinator · New Jersey
Translation and Interpreting FAQs
Straight answers to the questions US clients ask before they book.
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