For the visiting parent at the hospital and the grandfather at the green card interview: a Marathi interpreter, not a Hindi speaker, plus certified translation of Maharashtra records.
Prism Linguistics provides Marathi interpreters for medical appointments, USCIS interviews, court hearings and depositions anywhere in the United States, in person, by phone or by video, together with certified English translation of birth, marriage and degree certificates issued in Maharashtra.
Last reviewed September 2, 2026 by Sarah J, Prism Linguistics
Marathi speakers in the US are, by and large, engineers, physicians and their families, and they do not need an interpreter. The parents who visit for six months do. That single fact shapes almost everything about Marathi work here: the appointments are medical and immigration far more than legal, the person booking is a fluent adult child, and the mistake everyone makes is assuming Hindi will do. Our office is in New York and our Marathi interpreters are wherever the clinics and field offices are, with phone and video for anywhere else.
The 2017-2021 American Community Survey counted about 107,000 people speaking Marathi at home, clustered where the software and healthcare jobs are: central New Jersey, the Chicago suburbs, the Bay Area, Dallas and Houston, Seattle and Atlanta. The interpreter is needed by the older generation within those households, and by the occasional spouse whose English serves at the office but not under cross-examination.
Hindi is not a substitute. Marathi and Hindi share Devanagari and a fair amount of Sanskrit vocabulary, and that is where the resemblance ends. An older Marathi speaker in a hospital gown will follow a Hindi interpreter partly, nod, and miss the part that matters. We book Marathi interpreters as Marathi interpreters. If nobody is available in person on the day, we offer a Marathi interpreter by phone or video before we ever suggest Hindi.
The classic Marathi medical booking is a mother visiting on a tourist visa who ends up in an emergency department, followed by a cardiology or oncology consultation, followed by a discharge conversation nobody in the family feels able to interpret. A provider that takes federal funding must supply a Marathi interpreter at no cost to the patient; families rarely know that, and hospitals rarely have one on staff. Video reaches the bedside quickly. For consent, capacity or a serious diagnosis we prefer to send someone in person, because a seventy-year-old patient does better with a person than with a screen.
USCIS interviews in Marathi are mostly parents and in-laws sponsored by citizen children: the I-130 and adjustment interview, and later the naturalization interview, where an applicant old enough for the age-based English exemption answers the civics questions through an interpreter. The officer needs the applicant's own answer, not the son's improved version of it. We brief the interpreter to render only what is said and we do not let a relative interpret.
Court demand is the smallest of the three, and no state we know of certifies interpreters in Marathi; New Jersey and California, which publish long lists of certified and registered languages, both leave it off. Courts therefore use a qualified Marathi interpreter, and we confirm with the clerk what the bench will accept before you book. Depositions and family matters make up most of it, with the occasional employment dispute where a spouse's testimony turns on a nuance of Marathi. Prism is a private agency and not a vendor appointed by any court, and we say that to every clerk who asks.
Maharashtra records are usually bilingual, and USCIS wants the whole page. A birth certificate from a Municipal Corporation, a Gram Panchayat or a Sub-Registrar follows the state template in Devanagari, often with English printed alongside, and a translator who copies the English half and calls it done has left the Marathi seals, the handwritten remarks and the registration details untranslated. The second problem is the language label: a Hindi translator reads Marathi Devanagari fluently and gets it wrong, so we assign Marathi translators. Then there are the names. A Maharashtrian name is given name, father's name (or husband's, after marriage), then surname, which is why a woman's school leaving certificate and her marriage record will not match; and since May 2024 the state requires the mother's name on new documents as well. We spell to the passport and note every variant. Degree certificates and transcripts from Maharashtra universities for H-1B and I-140 petitions are the other steady stream, and older land or family records in the Modi script need a translator who can read it. Each translation carries a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy; details 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 Marathi interpreters work nationwide. For in-person work we assign someone based in or near the city. These are the areas where Marathi 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 Marathi assignment ever falls short, tell us and we put it right.