Phone and video interpreting for the few Faroese speakers in the US, and certified translation of the Faroese and Danish records in a family file.
Prism Linguistics provides Faroese interpreters for USCIS interviews, court hearings and medical appointments anywhere in the United States, nearly always by phone or video, and certified English translation of Faroese and Danish parish certificates and National Registration Office records.
Last reviewed September 2, 2026 by Sarah J, Prism Linguistics
Faroese has about 80,000 speakers, nearly all of them in the Faroe Islands, and the Faroese in the United States are scattered individuals rather than a community. There is no Faroese neighborhood anywhere, and we will not pretend to have a Faroese interpreter waiting in every city. What we can do is connect one by phone or video anywhere in the country, and translate the Faroese and Danish records that a Faroese family holds. Our office is in New York; that is the whole of it.
Danish is not a stand-in for Faroese. The two share an alphabet and a long shared administration, not a spoken form; a Danish interpreter cannot render spoken Faroese and should not be booked to try. Almost every Faroese adult speaks Danish and good English, so the request for a Faroese interpreter is nearly always for an elderly relative, or for someone who wants to give evidence in the language they think in and is entitled to. When it comes, it comes rarely and it matters.
No state has a certification exam in Faroese and no court roster carries a Faroese interpreter, so a Faroese-speaking witness or party is exactly the situation in which a court calls Prism for a rare language. We supply a qualified Faroese interpreter, by video, for the hearing, and for the deposition or the attorney meeting beforehand. We are a private agency and not a court-appointed vendor, and we tell the clerk that on the first call.
The Faroese USCIS assignment is usually a spouse or parent case: an adjustment-of-status interview, or a naturalization interview where an older applicant qualifies for a language exemption. Most Faroese applicants will choose English. For the one who does not, we supply a neutral Faroese interpreter who renders each answer exactly, and we check with the applicant's attorney whether the field office will accept a remote interpreter for that interview type, since a Faroese interpreter in person is unlikely to be within reach of any particular office.
Phone and video are how nearly all Faroese interpreting in the United States is done, and we say so rather than imply a linguist in every city. A hospital consult for a visiting parent, a benefits appointment, a short legal call: these go on the line within a business day, often sooner. A provider that takes federal funds must supply the interpreter at no cost to the patient, Faroese included, and the hospital usually has no idea where to find one until someone calls us.
A Faroese file comes in two languages. The National Registration Office keeps the population register and issues the p-tal, while baptism, name and marriage certificates come from the parish vicar of the Fólkakirkjan in Faroese or English; anything that passed through Danish authorities, and most older records, is in Danish. We translate each from its own language, label which is which and keep the issuing parish or office exactly as printed. The letters ð, ó, ý, æ and ø survive in the passport and vanish from US records, so we spell to the passport and note the variant on the original. Every job carries a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy; detail at certified translation.
Tell us the date, the city and the setting, or send a clear scan of the document. We reply with a fixed price and, for interpreting, a named linguist. Call +1 (833) 282 8883, email info@prismlinguistics.com, or use the quote form and you will hear back within 60 minutes during business hours.
Our only office is in New York, and our Faroese interpreters work nationwide. For in-person work we assign someone based in or near the city. These are the areas where Faroese work is concentrated; the full list of 288 cities is below it.
Prism Linguistics is rated 4.6 out of 5 across 67 client reviews for its interpreting and translation work in the United States. That is the company-wide figure; we do not publish a separate rating per language because there is no honest way to measure one. If a Faroese assignment ever falls short, tell us and we put it right.