Certified Translation Services in Alexandria, Virginia
If you live in Alexandria, Virginia, Apostille Authentications can translate your documents and certify them with a signed certificate of accuracy, from $65 per page. Most translations are finished in 1 to 2 business days. The work is done remotely: our office is in Lake Oswego, near Portland, Oregon, so you send files through the online quote form and get the translation back electronically or by mail. Below are the Alexandria offices and official rules that usually sit behind a translation request.
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Alexandria offices that issue the records you may need translated
Alexandria is an independent city with its own circuit court, the 18th Judicial Circuit. The Clerk of Circuit Court, J. Greg Parks, has his main office at 520 King Street, Room 307, Alexandria, VA 22314, open Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The city describes the office as the one that maintains land records, handles probate and fiduciary matters and issues marriage licenses. It also qualifies notaries and provides certified copies of court records.
City offices at 4850 Mark Center Drive cover two more needs:
- Clerk’s branch office. Redella S. ‘Del’ Pepper Community Resource Center, second floor, open Tuesdays and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Alexandria Health Department Vital Records. fourth floor, phone 703.746.4991. It issues birth certificates, death certificates and marriage and divorce records for $15 per certificate to eligible family members with valid ID.
- Vital Records hours. Monday to Wednesday and Friday, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; Thursday, 1 to 3:30 p.m.
How a translation order works from Alexandria
| Languages | 100, with Spanish, Russian, Hindi, Urdu, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic and Czech requested most |
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| Phone | (971) 514-3743, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
| Office | 5 Centerpointe Drive, Suite 400, Lake Oswego, OR 97035. No Virginia location. |
- 1. Send the file. Use the quote form to upload a PDF, JPEG, PNG or Word document. A legible phone photo is fine.
- 2. Confirm the price. Certified translation starts at $65 per page.
- 3. Receive the translation. Most are ready in 1 to 2 business days and include a signed certificate of accuracy.
- 4. Add notarization if required. We can have the translator’s statement notarized when the receiving office asks for it.
- 5. Choose delivery. An electronic copy, paper copies by mail, or both.
Federal courthouse and immigration filings
The Alexandria Division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia sits in the Albert V. Bryan U.S. Courthouse, 401 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, VA 22314. Its clerk’s office is open 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday.
Immigration cases are heard elsewhere. The Arlington Immigration Court, at 1901 South Bell Street, Suite 200 in Arlington, is run by the Executive Office for Immigration Review. Its practice manual requires a certified English translation for any foreign-language filing, with a typed and signed certification in which the translator states competence in the language and the accuracy of the translation and gives an address and telephone number.
USCIS applies a similar rule. Under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), a foreign-language document must come with a full English translation certified by the translator as complete and accurate, plus a statement that the translator is competent to translate into English. Each agency makes its own decision on what it accepts.
Apostilles for Alexandria documents: the Richmond route
The clerk on King Street and the health department on Mark Center Drive issue the underlying records; neither issues apostilles. For a document going abroad, the next stop is the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, which verifies the Virginia notary, court clerk or deputy state registrar who signed it.
The published terms are $10.00 per document, not per page, with a $5.00 rate for additional documents signed by the same official on the same date for the same country. Mailed requests take 7 to 10 business days and need a cover letter, payment and a prepaid return mailer. USPS mail goes to 1111 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219; FedEx, UPS and DHL go to 400 East Cary Street. In-person appointments are offered Monday to Thursday and are booked online on Fridays at 10 a.m. for the following week.
The office does not translate documents and says translation is not required before submission. It also notes that it does not regulate what the foreign government requires, so ask the receiving authority whether it wants a translation, and of which pages.
Federal documents and countries outside the Hague Convention
The Secretary of the Commonwealth does not process federal documents and directs you to the U.S. Department of State. Its Office of Authentications issues apostille certificates for countries in the 1961 Hague Convention and authentication certificates for countries outside it. Requests are mailed to 44132 Mercure Cir., PO Box 1206, Sterling, VA 20166-1206, and the office says it processes them within five weeks of receipt. The walk-in counter is at 600 19th Street NW, Washington, DC 20006.
The State Department’s guidance adds that if the destination country requires a translation from English, you should get a professional translator and have the translation notarized.
A quarter of Alexandria residents were born abroad
Census Bureau American Community Survey figures for 2024, as published by Census Reporter, put Alexandria’s population at 159,102 and its foreign-born share at 24.4 percent, compared with 13.6 percent for Virginia as a whole.
Related services for Alexandria
- Virginia document translation services: the statewide rules for courts, notaries, vital records and driver licensing
- Virginia apostille service
- All document translation services
Alexandria translation questions
Apostille Authentications provides certified translation to Alexandria, Virginia customers remotely from the Portland, Oregon area. Documents are uploaded through an online quote form and the certified translation is returned electronically or by mail.
Most translations from Apostille Authentications are ready in 1 to 2 business days, and pricing starts at $65 per page.
The Alexandria Health Department Vital Records office at 4850 Mark Center Drive, Fourth Floor, issues birth, death, marriage and divorce records for $15 per certificate to eligible family members with valid ID.
The Alexandria Clerk of Circuit Court issues marriage licenses. The main office is at 520 King Street, Room 307, open Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Send the Virginia-issued or Virginia-notarized document to the Secretary of the Commonwealth in Richmond. The fee is $10.00 per document and mailed requests take 7 to 10 business days.
Yes. Apostille Authentications can have the translator’s signed statement notarized on request, in addition to the standard certificate of accuracy.
Sources
The local details on this page come from these official sources.
- City of Alexandria, Clerk of Circuit Court
- Alexandria Circuit Court, Virginia’s Judicial System
- Alexandria Health Department, Vital Records
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria
- Arlington Immigration Court, EOIR
- Immigration Court Practice Manual, Chapter 3.3
- 8 CFR 103.2, eCFR
- Secretary of the Commonwealth, Authentications
- Secretary of the Commonwealth, How to Submit
- U.S. Department of State, Office of Authentications
- U.S. Department of State, Apostille Requirements
- Census Reporter, Alexandria city profile
Get your Alexandria translation started
Upload your document for a quote, or call (971) 514-3743 and tell us where the translation is going. We confirm the level of certification you need before any work begins.