Certified Amharic pay stub translation for USCIS.

Pay stubs issued by Amharic-speaking jurisdictions are among the most-translated civil documents in US uscis filings. Pay stubs and salary certificates — شهادة راتب, paycheck stubs, maaş bordrosu — document earned income. Verdacert translates them for I-864 affidavits of support, I-129 H-1B compensation showings, asylum corroborating evidence, and university financial-aid filings, preserving the gross-pay, deductions, and net-pay breakdown that USCIS officers and DSOs verify against the larger filing.

Amharic is the official working language of the Federal Government of Ethiopia and the most widely spoken language in the country. Verdacert translates Ethiopian civil status records, kebele IDs, school transcripts, and court documents for US immigration, academic credential evaluation, and family-based filings. Verdacert's reviewer pool covers Addis Ababa Amharic, Gondari and other regional variants, with country-specific document conventions from Ethiopia.

Amharic is written in the Ge'ez script (fidäl) and read left-to-right. Ethiopian civil documents typically use the Ethiopian calendar, which is roughly 7–8 years behind the Gregorian calendar and has 13 months; Verdacert converts dates to Gregorian for US filings, with the Ethiopian original retained in parentheses. Names are transliterated following USCIS-recognized conventions and aligned with any existing immigration paperwork.

USCIS requires that any non-English document submitted in support of an immigration petition be accompanied by a full English translation, plus a signed statement from a competent translator attesting that the translation is complete and accurate. Verdacert's certification statement is drafted to meet this requirement exactly. The applicable standard is 8 CFR § 103.2(b)(3).

For pay stub translations specifically, our reviewers focus on currency conversions to usd for the relevant pay period — reviewer note rather than in-line and deductions that don't map cleanly to us payroll categories, among other patterns. The AI draft is calibrated to surface uncertainty rather than guess, so the reviewer always knows where to spend their attention.

Every translation we deliver includes a signed certification statement, a faithful transcription of every field on the source, descriptions of all seals and stamps, and explicit [illegible] markers anywhere the source is unreadable rather than a guess. The reviewer signs the certification under their own name.