Certified Somali professional license translation for USCIS.

Professional licenses issued by Somali-speaking jurisdictions are among the most-translated civil documents in US uscis filings. Professional licenses — medical, legal, engineering, pharmacy, teaching, accounting — issued by foreign professional bodies require certified English translation for H-1B, EB-2 / EB-3, and National Interest Waiver petitions, and for state-board licensure in the US. Verdacert handles physician licenses from the Egyptian Medical Syndicate, نظام پزشکی, Pakistani PMDC, Turkish TTB, and Lebanese OPL; bar-association licenses from MENA-region bar councils; and engineer licenses from national engineering syndicates.

Somali is the official language of Somalia and a co-official language of Djibouti, with significant speaker populations in Ethiopia and Kenya. Verdacert translates Somali civil status records, refugee documents, and court materials — including the substantial volume of community-issued and reconstructed records common in cases originating from regions without continuous central civil registries. Verdacert's reviewer pool covers Northern Somali (Maxaa-tiri), Benadiri Somali, Maay Maay, with country-specific document conventions from Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya.

Somali has been written in a Latin-based alphabet (the Somali Latin script) since 1972, and modern civil documents use this script. Older documents may appear in Arabic or Osmanya script — Verdacert handles all three. Where civil records have been reconstructed or issued by community elders rather than a central registry, the certification notes the document's origin so US adjudicators have full context.

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 professional license translations specifically, our reviewers focus on specialty taxonomy mapping (e.g., تخصص عام family-medicine equivalents) and continuing-education credit reporting that varies by issuing body, 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.