How much does a certified translation cost?

Prices are charged per page of the source document in US dollars. Payment can be made by credit card, debit card, PayPal, or Apple Pay, with no PayPal account required. All orders are prepaid, and translation begins once payment is confirmed.

We charge by the page of the document you submit, not the page count of the finished translation. A one-page certificate is billed as one source page even when the English layout runs longer. We confirm the final page count from your files before you pay.

Typical order costs

Totals are rounded to the nearest cent (half-up). The quote you receive is the final amount, with no added fees at checkout.

Each page of the original counts as one page. For a bank passbook, one open spread, the two facing pages you photograph together, counts as one page.

Volume discounts

Applied automatically to orders of multiple documents. Discounts are based on the number of separate documents rather than the page count; for example, a 3-page family register counts as one document.

Included with every order

• ✓Certificate of Translation Accuracy, signed and numbered
• ✓Layout formatted to mirror the original document
• ✓Delivery as a PDF plus an editable Microsoft Word copy (.docx)
• ✓Correction of any translation error at any time, free of charge

Acceptance guarantee for USCIS, UKVI, and the Australian Department of Home Affairs: if the authority rejects your submission because of the translation or the certificate, we redo it free of charge, and if it is rejected again for the same reason we refund the translation fee in full. You may also cancel for a full refund at any time before work begins. Details are set out in the Terms of Service, Sections 7 and 9.

Old handwritten registers and long documents

Long, handwritten, or non-standard documents (such as multi-page medical records or pre-1994 vertical-format family registers) are quoted individually before you commit. Send your documents through the order form and we will reply with one fixed total first.

If your authority wants it notarized

Where the receiving authority requires a translator's affidavit sworn before a notary public (for example IRCC in Canada), it is available as an add-on at a fixed $249 per order, or $199 if the notarized original is sent to an address in Japan. One affidavit covers every translation in the order, however many documents it includes. The fee includes preparing the affidavit, the Japanese notary office's fee, an English translation of the notary's Japanese certificate signed by the notary, postal delivery of the notarized original (EMS outside Japan, domestic mail within Japan), and a scanned PDF by email. For US state DMVs that require a notarized translation, such as Texas, we do not offer the affidavit: a US-based provider who can notarize locally is faster and less expensive.

We email the translation within 48 hours of payment for you to review. After you approve it, we have the affidavit notarized and dispatch the original within a few business days, excluding weekends and Japanese public holidays. For addresses outside Japan, EMS delivery time is added after dispatch. Example for IRCC: one original page costs $24.95 for the translation plus $249 for the affidavit, $273.95 in total ($223.95 if sent to an address in Japan).

What does the price not cover?

• Apostille and consular legalization. We do not provide these services.
• Notarization. The standard deliverable is a certified translation with a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy; it is not notarized. A notarized translator's affidavit is available as an add-on at a fixed $249 per order, as described under “If your authority wants it notarized”.
• Filing or submitting documents to any authority. We deliver the translation to you, and you submit it to the relevant agency.

Acceptance is always at the receiving authority's discretion. Check their written requirements before ordering, or send us their wording with your order and we will confirm what we can provide before you pay.