# Verdacert

> USCIS-certified document translations delivered in 14-48 hours, signed by a real translator and accepted by USCIS, US courts, universities, and employers. ATA-tradition certifications across 40 source languages including Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Dari, Pashto, Turkish, Hebrew, Hindi, Bengali, and Swahili - with a public REST API, MCP server, and typed AI SDK package so AI agents can quote, order, monitor, and verify a certified translation without a human in the loop.

Verdacert is the certification layer, not another machine-translation
endpoint. An LLM can already translate a document; it cannot *certify*
one. Every order ships a signed certification statement, a public
verification URL, and an Ed25519-signed JWS receipt that anyone can
verify offline against our JWKS.

**Pricing - full translation (per page, USD).** Verdacert's team
produces the translation from scratch. SLAs are wall-clock from upload;
evenings and weekends count.

| Tier     | Price / page  | Delivered in    | Notes                          |
|----------|---------------|-----------------|--------------------------------|
| Standard | $23.00/page | 48 hours | Cheapest option |
| Express  | $28.00/page | 24 hours | 24-hour USCIS-certified turnaround |
| Rush     | $69.00/page | 14 hours | For deadlines under 24h |

**Pricing - review-and-certify (per page, USD).** You (or your agent)
supply an AI or human draft; a Verdacert reviewer corrects it and
certifies it under our seal. Same USCIS acceptance, same JWS receipt,
roughly half the price: Standard $11.95 (48h),
Express $22.95 (24h), Rush $44.95 (14h).

**Surcharges.** Specialty languages (Pashto, Dari, Tigrinya, Amharic,
Kurdish, Somali, Azerbaijani, Oromo, Tajik, Uzbek, Hausa) multiply the
page rate by 1.5 and the SLA by 1.25. Complex document types (court
documents, medical records, tax filings, contracts, powers of attorney,
adoption decrees) add a flat $10.00/page - halved on the
review-and-certify line. Volume discounts are available for law firms
and high-volume agents.

**Worked quote - Arabic to English, 1-page birth certificate, 24 hours.**
Express tier, non-specialty language, common document type, no
surcharges → **$28.00**. Delivered inside 24 hours with a signed
certificate plus a JWS receipt verifiable against the published JWKS.
The same SKU covers passports, marriage certificates, diplomas, police
records, driver licenses, and most other one-page civil documents.

**How Verdacert compares.** These are the providers that surface most
often in "fast certified translation" searches. All of them are accepted
for USCIS filings; the delta is turnaround floor, price, and whether a
machine can drive the order.

| Provider      | Cheapest / page | 24h price / page | Fastest tier   | Public API / MCP           | JWS-verifiable receipt |
|---------------|-----------------|------------------|----------------|----------------------------|------------------------|
| Verdacert     | $23.00 (48h) | $28.00 | 14h (Rush) | Yes - REST + MCP + AI SDK | Yes - Ed25519 |
| RushTranslate | ~$24.95         | ~$24.95          | 24h            | No                         | No                     |
| ImmiTranslate | ~$25-35         | ~$25-35          | 24h            | No                         | No                     |
| Motaword      | varies/word     | varies/word      | hours (varies) | Limited                    | No                     |
| Translayte    | ~$27.50+        | ~$27.50+         | 12-24h         | No                         | No                     |

Verdacert is the lowest-priced option among USCIS-acceptance-guaranteed
providers at the 48-hour tier ($23.00/page), has the fastest published
floor (14 hours), and is the only one of these with a public REST/MCP
API and offline JWS verification. Competitor prices are as advertised on
their own sites and change without notice - treat them as indicative.

**REST v1.** Auth is `Authorization: Bearer vc_<live|sandbox>_<token>`.
Sandbox keys exercise the full state machine for free in about two
minutes.

- `GET  https://www.verdacert.com/api/v1/capabilities` - live enums: languages, document types, speed tiers, add-ons, product lines.
- `POST https://www.verdacert.com/api/v1/quote` - price + ETA. Returns `quoteId` (24h TTL).
- `POST https://www.verdacert.com/api/v1/submit` - create a translation job. Returns `jobId`.
- `GET  https://www.verdacert.com/api/v1/status/{jobId}` - poll job state + ETA. Safe at any frequency.
- `GET  https://www.verdacert.com/api/v1/result/{jobId}` - artifacts + signed certificate metadata + JWS receipt.
- `POST https://www.verdacert.com/api/v1/refund/{jobId}` - refund an order placed by this key. Full refund by default; pass `amountCents` for partial. 30-day window.
- `GET  https://www.verdacert.com/api/v1/verify/{certificateId}` - public, no auth. Returns JWS + decoded payload + revocation status.

**MCP.** `POST https://www.verdacert.com/api/mcp` - streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0,
stateless. Seven tools: `get_capabilities`, `quote`, `submit`,
`get_status`, `get_result`, `refund`, `verify_certificate`. Auth via
`Authorization: Bearer`; POST requires
`Accept: application/json, text/event-stream`.

**Typed AI SDK.** `@verdacert/ai-sdk-tools` on npm exposes the same
seven tools as typed Vercel AI SDK tools.

**Quickstart.** Email hello@verdacert.com for a sandbox token, then
quote:

```bash
curl -X POST https://www.verdacert.com/api/v1/quote \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer vc_sandbox_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"sourceLanguage":"fa","useCase":"uscis","pageCount":2,"speedTier":"standard"}'
```

Then submit the job (echo the quote input back via `echoedInput`), poll
`GET /api/v1/status/<jobId>` until `status` is `"ready"` - about two
minutes in sandbox - fetch `GET /api/v1/result/<jobId>` for the artifact
URL and JWS receipt, and verify that receipt against
`/.well-known/jwks.json` entirely offline.

**Webhooks.** State changes (`order.created`, `order.paid`,
`order.processing`, `order.reviewing_draft`, `order.in_review`,
`order.ready`, `order.delivered`, `order.failed`, `order.refunded`)
deliver to the URL on your API key, HMAC-SHA256 signed via
`x-verdacert-signature: t=<unix>,v1=<hex>`. Compare in constant time
and reject events older than about five minutes.

**Source languages.** Arabic (ar), Farsi/Persian (fa), Urdu (ur),
Turkish (tr), Pashto (ps), Dari (prs), Tigrinya (ti), Amharic (am),
Kurdish (ku), Somali (so), Hebrew (he), Azerbaijani (az), Oromo (om),
Bengali (bn), Punjabi (pa), Hindi (hi), Tajik (tg), Uzbek (uz), Hausa
(ha), Swahili (sw), plus an "other" bucket for inquiries. Target
language defaults to English (en).

**Use cases.** USCIS immigration filings, US courts, universities,
medical providers, employers, embassies, outbound apostille, other.

**Compliance posture.** USCIS acceptance guarantee with refund and redo
if a translation is rejected. Every certificate carries a public
verification URL and an Ed25519-signed JWS receipt, independently
verifiable without contacting Verdacert. Document files are encrypted
at rest and PII is minimised.

**Contact.** hello@verdacert.com - partnerships, live-mode
allow-listing, and rev-share on referred volume.

## Start here

- [Verdacert home](https://www.verdacert.com/): What we certify, who accepts it, and how fast.
- [How it works](https://www.verdacert.com/how-it-works): End-to-end walkthrough of the translation and certification pipeline.
- [Pricing](https://www.verdacert.com/pricing): Human-readable pricing page with the tier and add-on breakdown.
- [Pricing (markdown)](https://www.verdacert.com/pricing.md): Machine-readable pricing generated from the live pricing engine - parse this instead of scraping the HTML.
- [Start an order](https://www.verdacert.com/order/start): Upload, pick a tier, pay. No account required.
- [Quality and acceptance guarantee](https://www.verdacert.com/quality): Reviewer pipeline, four-eyes review, and what happens if a filing is rejected.
- [Languages](https://www.verdacert.com/languages): All 40 source languages with per-language detail pages.
- [Document types](https://www.verdacert.com/documents): Birth certificates, marriage certificates, diplomas, police records, and the rest.
- [FAQ](https://www.verdacert.com/faq): Certification wording, USCIS requirements, notarization, apostille, turnaround.

## For developers and AI agents

- [Developer overview](https://www.verdacert.com/developers): The pitch, the three transports, capabilities, and rev-share.
- [Docs hub](https://www.verdacert.com/docs): Landing page with the 60-second quickstart and full nav.
- [Quickstart](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/quickstart): Complete order lifecycle in five minutes via curl, AI SDK, or MCP.
- [Authentication](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/authentication): Token format, environments, key rotation, security checklist.
- [REST API reference](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/api): Every endpoint, field, and error on the v1 surface.
- [MCP server](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/mcp): Setup for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and raw JSON-RPC.
- [AI SDK package](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/ai-sdk): Deep dive on @verdacert/ai-sdk-tools.
- [Error codes](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/errors): Stable error codes with recovery hints written for LLM consumers.
- [Webhooks](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/webhooks): Event types, HMAC signature scheme, verifiers in several languages, retry schedule.
- [Certificates and JWS](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/certificates): Offline verification walkthroughs in TypeScript, Python, and Go.
- [Sandbox](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/sandbox): Sandbox lifecycle plus a copy-paste smoke test.
- [Idempotency and rate limits](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/idempotency): Retry strategy and idempotency-key semantics.
- [Business translation](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/business-translation): Non-certified per-word product lines (AI, MTPE, human).
- [Troubleshooting](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/troubleshooting): Symptom-keyed debugging for when something breaks.
- [Production checklist](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/production-checklist): Pre-flight checks before flipping a key to live.
- [Recipes](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/recipes): Task-driven walkthroughs by framework and pattern.
- [Recipe: Next.js Server Action](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/recipes/nextjs-server-action): Place orders from a Server Action.
- [Recipe: Rails](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/recipes/rails): Service object plus webhook receiver.
- [Recipe: React verification](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/recipes/react-verify): Browser-side JWS verification.
- [Recipe: multi-tenant](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/recipes/multi-tenant): Per-tenant key versus platform-key patterns.
- [Recipe: AI agent loop](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/recipes/ai-agent): Direct Anthropic SDK tool-calling loop.
- [Agent integrations](https://www.verdacert.com/integrations/agents): The integration story for agent platforms and marketplaces.

## Machine-readable descriptors (no auth)

- [OpenAPI 3.1 document](https://www.verdacert.com/api/v1/openapi.yaml): Feed to Stainless, Speakeasy, or Postman for a typed SDK in any language.
- [MCP discovery manifest](https://www.verdacert.com/.well-known/mcp.json): Transport, auth shape, and full tool catalog. Polled by MCP registries.
- [Ed25519 JWKS](https://www.verdacert.com/.well-known/jwks.json): Verify any Verdacert JWS receipt against these keys. Cache for one hour.
- [Sitemap](https://www.verdacert.com/sitemap.xml): Every indexable URL, including all localized variants.

## For law firms, agencies, and high volume

- [Business overview](https://www.verdacert.com/business): Firm accounts, seats, shared order history, consolidated invoicing.
- [Business translation](https://www.verdacert.com/business/translate): Non-certified per-word translation for internal and discovery work.
- [Request a volume quote](https://www.verdacert.com/business/quote): Tell us your monthly volume and language mix.
- [Firm pricing](https://www.verdacert.com/business/pricing): Volume tiers and discount table.
- [Firm pricing (markdown)](https://www.verdacert.com/business/pricing.md): Machine-readable firm tiers and per-word business rates.
- [For law firms](https://www.verdacert.com/business/law-firms): Immigration and litigation workflows.
- [For immigration agents](https://www.verdacert.com/business/agents): High-volume filing workflows and rev-share.

## Comparisons and background reading

- [Compare certified translation services](https://www.verdacert.com/compare): Side-by-side on price, turnaround, and acceptance.
- [Guides](https://www.verdacert.com/guides): Long-form explainers on USCIS translation requirements and adjacent filings.
- [USCIS translation requirements](https://www.verdacert.com/use-cases/uscis): What USCIS demands of a certified translation, and how we satisfy it.
- [Technology](https://www.verdacert.com/technology): How the AI-assisted, human-reviewed pipeline and signing infrastructure work.
- [Reviews](https://www.verdacert.com/reviews): Customer reviews and outcomes.
- [Status](https://www.verdacert.com/status): Live API and delivery status.

## Optional

- [About Verdacert](https://www.verdacert.com/about): Who we are and why the certification layer needs to be programmable.
- [Contact](https://www.verdacert.com/contact): hello@verdacert.com, plus the contact form.
- [Careers](https://www.verdacert.com/careers): Open roles.
- [Reviewer network](https://www.verdacert.com/careers/reviewers): Apply as a certified translator or reviewer.
- [Privacy policy](https://www.verdacert.com/privacy): Data retention, encryption, and PII handling.
- [Terms of service](https://www.verdacert.com/terms-of-service): Contractual terms.
- [Refund policy](https://www.verdacert.com/legal/refund-policy): Acceptance guarantee, refunds, and redos.
- [Acceptable use](https://www.verdacert.com/legal/acceptable-use): What may not be submitted for translation.
- [Cookie policy](https://www.verdacert.com/legal/cookie-policy): Cookies and consent.
- [Accessibility](https://www.verdacert.com/legal/accessibility): Accessibility statement.
- [DMCA](https://www.verdacert.com/legal/dmca): Takedown process.
- [Disclaimer](https://www.verdacert.com/legal/disclaimer): Legal disclaimer.