# Verdacert > Document translations certified for USCIS (8 CFR § 103.2(b)(3)), delivered in 14-48 hours (Same-Day and 4-Hour aim for 8 and 4, best-effort) and signed by a human reviewer, for USCIS, US courts, universities, and employers. Certifications in the 8 CFR § 103.2(b)(3) form across 103 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 | $22.95/page | 48 hours | Cheapest option | | Express | $23.95/page | 24 hours | 24-hour turnaround, certified for USCIS (8 CFR § 103.2(b)(3)) | | Rush | $38.99/page | 14 hours | For deadlines under 24h | | Same-Day | $89.99/page | 8 hours | Best-effort, NOT guaranteed - see below | | 4-Hour | $169.99/page | 4 hours | Best-effort, NOT guaranteed - see below | **Same-Day and 4-Hour are best-effort and must be quoted as such.** The 8- and 4-hour windows depend on when the document arrives and how long it is, so we confirm feasibility before starting work. If we miss the window the order is refunded in full - the entire order, not just the speed premium. `POST /api/v1/quote` returns `slaGuaranteed: false` on these tiers; do not present either to a user as a guaranteed deadline. **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 certification form, same JWS receipt, about two-thirds the price: Standard $14.95 (48h), Express $15.95 (24h), Rush $24.95 (14h), Same-Day $58.95 (8h, best-effort), 4-Hour $110.95 (4h, best-effort). **Surcharges.** Every source language pays the same page rate on the same SLA. 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. **Multi-page discounts.** Larger orders take a percentage off the translation subtotal, counting every page in the order: 8+ pages 5%, 12+ pages 10%, 20+ pages 15%. Volume discounts are available for law firms and high-volume agents; a firm gets the larger of its rate and the multi-page discount, not both. **Worked quote - Arabic to English, 1-page birth certificate, 24 hours.** Express tier, common document type, no surcharges → **$23.95**. 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 furnish a certification in the 8 CFR § 103.2(b)(3) form; the delta is turnaround floor, price, and whether a machine can drive the order. | Provider | 24h price / page | Fastest tier | Public API | JWS-verifiable receipt | |----------|------------------|--------------|------------|------------------------| | Verdacert | $23.95 ($22.95 at 48h) | 14h (Rush); 4h (4-Hour, best-effort) | Yes - REST + MCP + AI SDK, self-serve | Yes - Ed25519 | | RushTranslate | ~$24.95/page | ~12h (expedited, extra fee) | On request | No | | ImmiTranslate | ~$25/page | Hours (expedited, from ~$80/page) | Yes | No | | MotaWord | Per-word; capped at $24.50/page | ~12h typical (no fixed deadline) | Yes (MCP on request) | No | | Translayte | ~$25–$31.75/page | ~12h (urgent, extra fee) | On request | No | | The Spanish Group | No 24h tier (~$29.97/page in 1–2 business days) | Same business day (Urgent, best effort) | On request | No | | Rapid Translate | ~$27.99/page | ~12h (Rapid Priority, extra fee) | No public docs | No | | TheWordPoint | From ~$24.75/page (Spanish, 1 page) | Same day (rush, extra fee) | No public docs | No | | Languages Unlimited | Quote only | Rush (by quote) | No | No | Verdacert charges $23.95/page for 24 hours and $22.95/page for 48 hours, the same in every source language, and signs every certificate with an Ed25519 JWS receipt anyone can verify offline. Competitor figures are as advertised on their own sites, checked October 2026, and change without notice - treat them as indicative. Per-provider detail: https://www.verdacert.com/rushtranslate-alternative, https://www.verdacert.com/immitranslate-alternative, https://www.verdacert.com/motaword-alternative, https://www.verdacert.com/translayte-alternative, https://www.verdacert.com/the-spanish-group-alternative, https://www.verdacert.com/rapid-translate-alternative, https://www.verdacert.com/thewordpoint-alternative, https://www.verdacert.com/languages-unlimited-alternative. **REST v1.** Auth is `Authorization: Bearer vc__`. 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.** Mint a free sandbox key self-serve at `https://www.verdacert.com/onboarding` (about a minute, no sales call), 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/` until `status` is `"ready"` - about two minutes in sandbox - fetch `GET /api/v1/result/` 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`), plus `order.notarized` when a notarized order's notarized PDFs are in `GET /api/v1/result/`, deliver to the URL on your API key, HMAC-SHA256 signed via `x-verdacert-signature: t=,v1=`. Compare in constant time and reject events older than about five minutes. **Source languages.** 103 languages, each with its code: Arabic `ar`, Farsi (Persian) `fa`, Dari `prs`, Pashto `ps`, Urdu `ur`, Turkish `tr`, Tigrinya `ti`, Amharic `am`, Kurdish `ku`, Somali `so`, Hebrew `he`, Azerbaijani `az`, Oromo `om`, Bengali (Bangla) `bn`, Punjabi `pa`, Hindi `hi`, Tajik `tg`, Uzbek `uz`, Hausa `ha`, Swahili `sw`, Spanish `es`, Chinese (Simplified) `zh_hans`, Chinese (Traditional) `zh_hant`, French `fr`, Portuguese `pt`, Russian `ru`, Ukrainian `uk`, Vietnamese `vi`, Korean `ko`, Japanese `ja`, Tagalog (Filipino) `tl`, Haitian Creole `ht`, Polish `pl`, Romanian `ro`, German `de`, Italian `it`, Thai `th`, Albanian `sq`, Greek `el`, Indonesian `id`, Afrikaans `af`, Armenian `hy`, Bambara `bm`, Belarusian `be`, Bosnian `bs`, Bulgarian `bg`, Burmese `my`, Catalan `ca`, Chin (Hakha) `cnh`, Croatian `hr`, Czech `cs`, Danish `da`, Dholuo `luo`, Dinka `din`, Dutch `nl`, Estonian `et`, Finnish `fi`, Fula (Pular) `ff`, Georgian `ka`, Gujarati `gu`, Hmong `hmn`, Hungarian `hu`, Icelandic `is`, Igbo `ig`, K'iche' `quc`, Kannada `kn`, Karen `kar`, Kazakh `kk`, Khmer `km`, Kinyarwanda `rw`, Kirundi `rn`, Kyrgyz `ky`, Lao `lo`, Latvian `lv`, Lingala `ln`, Lithuanian `lt`, Macedonian `mk`, Malay `ms`, Malayalam `ml`, Mam `mam`, Marathi `mr`, Marshallese `mh`, Mongolian `mn`, Montenegrin `cnr`, Nepali `ne`, Norwegian `no`, Nuer `nus`, Quechua `qu`, Rohingya `rhg`, Serbian `sr`, Sinhala `si`, Slovak `sk`, Slovenian `sl`, Swedish `sv`, Tamil `ta`, Telugu `te`, Tibetan `bo`, Turkmen `tk`, Twi (Akan) `ak`, Uyghur `ug`, Wolof `wo`, Yoruba `yo`, Zomi `ctd`. Plus an "other" bucket for inquiries. Certified translations are always into English (en); only the per-word business lines translate into other languages. **Use cases.** USCIS immigration filings, US court proceedings, US university applications, US medical providers, US employer filings, US embassy & consulate filings, Apostilled documents for US use, DMV & driver's licenses, Credential evaluation (WES, ECE), Professional licensing boards, K-12 school enrollment, Banks, lenders & insurers, Other certified translation. **Documents.** Any document. The 38 most common types have their own page; anything else - a lease, a will, chat logs, a syllabus - is ordered as document type "other" at the common-document rate. **Compliance posture.** USCIS acceptance guarantee: if a recipient rejects a translation for a translation error, we retranslate or refund (conditions apply - see the [Refund Policy](https://www.verdacert.com/legal/refund-policy)). 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 103 source languages with per-language detail pages. - [Document types](https://www.verdacert.com/documents): Birth certificates, marriage certificates, diplomas, police records, and any other document. - [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. - [Recipe: AI immigration paralegal agent](https://www.verdacert.com/docs/recipes/immigration-paralegal): Complete reference agent with full source - quotes, confirms, orders and verifies certified translations for an I-130 case. - [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. - [OpenAPI 3.1 document, JSON](https://www.verdacert.com/api/v1/openapi.json): The same spec as JSON, for Swagger UI, GPT Actions and other JSON-only importers. - [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, a monthly statement by matter, and Net-30 invoicing on approval. - [Business translation](https://www.verdacert.com/business/translate): Non-certified per-word translation for internal and discovery work. - [Human-reviewed business translation](https://www.verdacert.com/business/quote): Order non-certified AI + human post-edit (MTPE) or full human translation, priced per word. - [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 AI agents and platforms](https://www.verdacert.com/business/agents): Self-serve API onboarding, sandbox keys and the 10% rev-share for platforms that route orders. ## 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): support@verdacert.com for orders, firms@verdacert.com for accounts, 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.