Questions before ordering
If your document does not match one of these situations, send it anyway. Support replies in 15–30 minutes during support hours.
How much does a French passport translation cost?+−
The certified translation is priced per physical page. A data page on its own is one page, and each stamp or legalization page you add is another.
Do I need the whole passport translated?+−
Almost never. Most filings want the data page, and some add a visa or entry stamp as evidence of status or travel. Send what you have and we will tell you which pages to drop before you pay.
Will my French passport translation be accepted by USCIS?+−
The delivery includes your source-document scan, a complete English translation, and a signed and stamped Certificate of Translation Accuracy. If a receiving authority rejects the translation for a translation-related reason, we revise it free. If it is still rejected, we refund the translation cost.
My French passport already prints English. Do I still need a translation?+−
Usually yes, because the EU layout translates the labels rather than the values. The place of birth, the issuing préfecture, and every stamp behind the data page stay French, and a certification covers the page as you submit it.
My passport shows two surnames. Which one is my legal name?+−
Both are real and they mean different things. The nom de naissance is what your acte de naissance records, while a nom d'usage is a name adopted on marriage. We label each field rather than promoting one to the surname line, because only the birth name will match your civil records.
What does the number in brackets after my place of birth mean?+−
It is the French department code. PARIS 15E (75) means the fifteenth arrondissement of Paris, in department 75, and we render it that way rather than dropping digits that look like a stray date.
My Canadian passport is already in French and English. Do I need this?+−
Almost certainly not. A Canadian passport prints every field in both official languages, so nothing on it is left for a translator to render. If an office asks for a certified translation anyway, ask them which part they cannot read before you pay for one.
Do you handle Haitian and West African passports?+−
Yes, and they are a large share of this work. Haitian passports bring two-digit years in the encoded lines and multi-page legalization chains, while Senegalese, Ivorian, and Cameroonian issues carry less English and more handwritten detail.
Do you translate the machine-readable lines?+−
Yes, both of them, in full. They repeat the name, number, nationality, and dates in a fixed format that a reviewer may compare against the printed fields.
My passport is expired. Can you still translate it?+−
Yes, and expired French-language passports are common evidence of prior status or travel. The translation states the validity dates as printed rather than presenting the document as current.
How long does a French passport translation take?+−
A data page is usually delivered within 24 hours after we receive a clear scan. Legalization chains and several stamp pages extend that slightly, and we confirm the window before work begins.
Is there a word cap on a page?+−
No. We bill the physical page you upload, never a 250-word unit. A stamp-covered page stays one billed page.
Do you need my physical passport?+−
No. A clear scan or phone photo of the pages you need is enough, and the passport never leaves you. Photograph the page flat, in even light, with all four corners visible.
