Does USCIS Translation Need to Be Notarized? 8 CFR Rules

Foreign marriage certificate beside its English translation and a signed translator certification for USCIS

Immigration documents · Massachusetts Does a USCIS Translation Need to Be Notarized? Certified vs Notarized Translation, and When Massachusetts Still Needs the Notary No. USCIS does not require translations to be notarized. Under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), a foreign-language document needs a full English translation and a signed certification from the … Read more

Caregiver Guide: Fingerprints and Notarizations for Aging Parents

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Somewhere in Massachusetts today, an adult daughter is sitting at her parents’ kitchen table with a folder she never planned to own. Inside it: a power of attorney her father’s attorney drafted, a pension form from Portugal wanting his fingerprints, a health proxy needing witness, a benefits letter with codes nobody explained and a growing sense the paperwork of aging arrives all at once, in several languages, with every deadline set by an office thousands of miles from the person it concerns.