Asylum & Removal Defense Evidence Translation

Lumorbis LLC translates complete evidence packets for removal defense and asylum practices, and for legal aid organizations representing clients in immigration court. This is long-form, deadline-driven work: declarations, records, and country-condition materials that must reach the court as one consistent, filing-ready set. The immigration courts currently carry a backlog of roughly 3.4 million pending cases, about two-thirds of them involving asylum — for most practices in this area, evidence translation is a recurring workload, not a one-off purchase.

What We Translate

• Declarations & personal statements — applicant declarations, witness statements, and supporting affidavits in draft or signed form.
• Witness & family letters — letters from relatives, employers, clergy, and community members.
• Police records — police reports, complaints, incident records, and related official documents.
• Medical & psychological records — the source records behind medical and psychological evaluations: clinic notes, hospital records, prescriptions, and treatment histories.
• News reports — newspaper and online articles, broadcast transcripts, and press clippings submitted as evidence.
• Chat logs & messages — messaging-app conversations, SMS records, and social-media exchanges, translated in sequence with speakers and timestamps preserved.
• Threat letters & extortion notes — handwritten or printed threats, ransom and extortion communications.
• Photo captions & annotations — captions, labels, and handwritten notes on photographs and scanned images.
• Country-condition source materials — the non-English originals behind country reporting: official notices, local news, government publications, and NGO materials.
• RFE supplements & BIA appeal additions — additional evidence translated for a Request for Evidence response or for the record on appeal.
• Civil documents inside case bundles — birth and marriage certificates, household registers, police clearances, and similar documents filed as part of the packet.

EOIR-Compliant Certificates

Under 8 CFR 1003.33, a foreign-language document submitted to the immigration court must be accompanied by a certificate signed by the translator, attesting that the translator is competent to translate and that the translation is complete and accurate. Every translation we deliver includes a signed Certificate of Accuracy, formatted for court submission and attached to the filing-ready PDF. Certificates are issued per document or per packet, as your filing requires.

Whole-Packet Consistency Check

A declaration that spells a village name one way while the police report spells it another is the kind of discrepancy that draws questions at a merits hearing. Before delivery, we read the packet as a set — not as isolated files — and unify the rendering of names, dates, place names, and organization names across every document, cross-checking the declarations against the evidence they cite. Where the source materials themselves conflict — a date in a letter that does not match the record, a name written two ways — we flag it to your team. We translate what the documents say; we never silently alter source content. This packet-level check is the core difference between a case vendor and an ad-hoc translator working file by file.

Deadline-Driven Delivery

Evidence work is scheduled by the court’s calendar, not ours. Give us the dates that govern the case — the master calendar hearing, the merits hearing, or a filing deadline — and we schedule production backwards from them. Your fixed quote confirms a delivery date before work starts, and we deliver to it. Rush tiers are available when the calendar moves: timelines can be halved, and same-day / 24-hour delivery is available for urgent supplements (see rates on our law-firm page).

Confidentiality & File Handling

Case files move only through the firm’s secure submission channel (encrypted Dropbox) — never through personal email accounts or consumer file-sharing links. A non-disclosure agreement is available on request. Your materials are used solely to produce your translations: they are not shared, not reused, and not used for any other purpose. After delivery, source files and translations are deleted on request, or as set out in our agreement with your firm.

How It Works

1. Submit documents — use the law-firm submission form below, or email your scans to info@lumorbis.com.
2. We confirm the quote and delivery date — a fixed quote based on the confirmed word count, and a delivery date scheduled against your hearing calendar, before we start. No work begins until you approve it.
3. Receive certified PDFs ready to file — translations with signed Certificates of Accuracy attached, formatted to mirror your originals and consistency-checked across the whole packet.

Who This Service Is For

This is a business-to-business service. We work with licensed law firms and legal aid organizations only, and we do not accept asylum or removal case work directly from individual applicants. We do not provide court interpreting. (If you are an individual applicant who needs a standard certified translation of a personal document, see our individual pricing — this evidence-packet service is not offered on a direct basis.)

Submit Your Case Packet

Submit Documents — files go straight to our secure Dropbox, and we will confirm scope, fixed quote, and delivery date by email.

Questions before you send files? Email info@lumorbis.com, or see the submission channel on our law-firm page.

For Legal Aid Organizations and Funded Programs

We work within funded-program realities. Translation and certification are budgeted case costs in removal-defense representation, and our invoices are issued per case with the documentation grant reporting usually requires. Certificates comply with 8 CFR 1003.33, every document in a case package is consistency-checked against the others (names, dates, places), and deadlines are scheduled backwards from the hearing date. For organizations with continuing caseloads we offer Net 15 monthly billing, and quarterly settlement can be arranged for funded programs. We accept assignments from legal aid organizations and law firms only — not from individual respondents directly.

FAQ

What certificate comes with the translations?

A signed Certificate of Accuracy meeting 8 CFR 1003.33: the translator attests that they are competent to translate from the source language into English and that the translation is complete and accurate. It is signed, attached to every filing, and formatted for submission to the immigration court.

What exactly does the whole-packet consistency check cover?

Uniform rendering of personal names, dates, place names, and organization names across every document in the packet, plus a cross-check of the declarations against the exhibits they cite. Apparent conflicts in the source material are flagged to your team in writing — we do not change what a document says.

We have a merits hearing coming up. Can you work to a fixed date?

Yes — that is how this service is scheduled. Tell us the hearing or filing date when you submit; your fixed quote confirms the delivery date before work starts. Rush service (timeline halved, or same-day / 24-hour for urgent supplements) is available at the rates shown on our law-firm page.

How are our files handled, and can they be deleted after the case?

Files move only through the secure submission channel (encrypted Dropbox). An NDA is available on request, materials are used for your translations only, and after delivery we delete source files and translations on request or per our agreement with your firm.

Which languages do you cover?

21 languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Haitian Creole, French, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Arabic, and Urdu. Long-form evidence rates are tiered by language — see the Asylum & Removal Defense rates on our law-firm page.