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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 14:03:30 -0800
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To follow up on this. I translated a few short documents myself for my
E-Visa application, without notary or any other "approval". I never got
a notice that something wasn't official enough.
Note that unlike Europeans, Americans give you a lot of leeway in such
areas. On the other hand, when you sign even a simple official document,
you often sign "under the penalty of perjury". In Europe, on the other
hand, it takes forever to get something through the bureaucracy because
of all the required seals of approval, but you rarely see a threat of
stiff penalties for supplying wrong information.
Conversely, a friend of mine submitted his US university diploma to an
Austrian university a couple of years ago. The university initialy had
insisted on an official and notarized translation. Then they saw that
the diploma was all in Latin and decided to accept it without further
translations... :-)
Regards
Axel Merk
agm_at_merkinvestments.com
On Friday, November 9, 2001, at 12:43 , Erik Bruchez wrote:
> If you are confident that your translation is good, you can sign
> yourself (in front of a notary) that the translation, to the best of
> your knowledge, is accurate. There is no actual need for a third party.
>
> -Erik
>
> Darius Somary wrote:
>
>> What Berthe wrote is correct - you can translate the documents yourself
>> and have the translation witnessed by a native. If you want to save
>> yourself from having to go all the way to the university for
>> notarization, you should find at least one notary at every 'Mailboxes
>> etc.'. I understand they charge about $10 per document. Good luck!
>> __darry
>> "Berthe Y. Choueiry" wrote:
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