Certified Japanese academic transcript translation for USCIS.

Academic transcripts issued by Japanese-speaking jurisdictions are among the most-translated civil documents in US uscis filings. Translation of foreign university and secondary-school transcripts for US university admissions, professional licensing, and immigration filings. Verdacert produces WES-compatible formatting on request.

Japanese is the official language of Japan and the source language for koseki family registries, juminhyo resident records, academic transcripts, and corporate registry documents. Verdacert translates Japanese koseki extracts, marriage and birth certifications, academic credentials, and commercial registry records (登記簿謄本) for US immigration, university, court, and corporate filings. Verdacert's reviewer pool covers Modern Standard Japanese (Tokyo dialect), with country-specific document conventions from Japan.

Japan's civil status system is built around the koseki (戸籍) family register, a per-household record maintained at municipal offices; full koseki extracts (戸籍謄本) preserve historical changes and are the documents USCIS adjudicators rely on. Verdacert translates koseki, abridged koseki extracts (戸籍抄本), and removed koseki (除籍謄本) for deceased-relative records, preserving the household structure in the English translation. Japanese is written using kanji, hiragana, and katakana; names appear in kanji and are romanized to match the holder's existing passport or US-paperwork spelling. Dates may use the Japanese era system (令和, 平成, 昭和); Verdacert converts to Gregorian for US filings and retains the era date in parentheses.

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 academic transcript translations specifically, our reviewers focus on grade-scale conversion explanations and course title transliterations for technical fields, 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.