Ariana Nexus translates Afghan tazkira, marriage certificates (nikah khat), passports, diplomas and court records from Pashto and Dari into English, certified for USCIS, immigration courts and U.S. courts. Every document is translated by a native Afghan legal linguist, checked line by line by a second, and signed.
Reviewed by Wasil Peroz, Principal. Last reviewed September 23, 2026. AN·SVC·2026·LRJ·CT
Requirements change, and some courts and evaluators set their own. Your attorney or the receiving office has the final word on format.
USCIS
Rule8 CFR 103.2(b)(3)
What it asks forImmigration courts (EOIR)
Rule8 CFR 1003.33
What it asks forNational Visa Center and U.S. consulates
RuleState Department document instructions
What it asks forA certified translation is a complete English translation of a foreign-language document, accompanied by the translator’s signed statement that the translation is complete and accurate and that the translator is competent to translate from Pashto or Dari into English. USCIS requires one for every foreign-language document under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), and immigration courts require a similar certification under 8 CFR 1003.33. In the United States, “certified” refers to that signed statement, not to a government license: USCIS does not certify translators.
Up to five pages, from the time the name and date key is agreed
For filings and responses with a near deadline
By arrangement, for hearings, interviews and re-interviews
Family files and pro bono batches, scheduled before work begins
Afghan civil documents follow conventions that general translation services often miss. Dates are written in the Solar Hijri calendar with Afghan month names. Older paper tazkiras record a person’s age in a given year instead of a date of birth. Names have no fixed English spelling. Marriage certificates carry two dates. The e-tazkira prints only part of its content in English. Seals, stamps and handwritten clerk entries carry legal weight.
Since late 2025, filings by Afghan nationals have faced adjudication holds, a federal lawsuit and a court-permitted re-review of benefits approved since 2021. The rules have changed month to month. What has not changed: every document in an Afghan applicant’s file may be read against every other, so each translation has to agree with the rest.
For family and multi-document files, counsel receives a memo that sets every name and date side by side, so a difference is found before an officer finds it. The memo reports; it never changes a translation.
Illustrative. The memo reports differences; it never resolves them by changing a translation.
Lunar Hijri dates on religious documents are converted by a linguist, not by a formula. This tool is a convenience; the certified translation is the record.
Tazkira (paper)
e-Tazkira
Marriage certificate (nikah khat)
Divorce documents (talaq nama)
Birth records
Passports
School certificates and transcripts
University diplomas and transcripts
Court decisions and records
Property deeds (qabala)
Powers of attorney (wakalat nama)
Employment and SIV documentsThe table covers the documents we translate most often. We also translate every other record an Afghan family, attorney or court may need, including documents issued to Afghans in Pakistan, Iran and Türkiye, and digital evidence.
If your document is not listed, it is still in scope: if it is written or recorded in Pashto, Dari or another Afghan language, we translate it. For contracts, evidence sets and discovery productions in litigation, see Legal Document and Discovery Translation for Law Firms.
Ariana Nexus, 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 10th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20006. (202) 771-0224
Most Afghan official documents are issued in Pashto, Dari or both. Letters, statements, recordings and older records can be in any of Afghanistan’s languages, so we translate from all 24 that Ariana Nexus covers: into English for USCIS and U.S. courts, and into twelve other languages for use abroad.
24 languages, grouped by language family. Pashto and Dari are the languages of Afghan official documents.
There is no U.S. certification for Pashto or Dari translators. USCIS certifies no translators, and no national certification exam covers these languages. So Ariana Nexus sets the standard in writing, trains and qualifies its own linguists to it, and puts two of them on every page.
Certified translation is legal work, and the people accountable for it here are alumni and scholars of Cornell University, the University of Chicago and the University of British Columbia who come from the Afghan community and know how these documents are written. Our native linguists translate and review; the leadership below owns the standard they work to.
Languages: Pashto and Dari (native); English, Urdu, Hindi; Arabic (working)
A tazkira carries a national ID number, family names, place of origin, ethnicity and religion, and many of our clients have relatives still in Afghanistan. Handling that information carefully is part of the work, not an add-on.
We quote a fixed fee per document before any work begins, based on page count, legibility, turnaround and whether a consistency review is needed. Law firms, legal aid organizations and agencies can request matter or volume terms.
A certified translation is a complete English translation of a foreign-language document, accompanied by the translator’s signed statement that the translation is complete and accurate and that the translator is competent to translate from Pashto or Dari into English. USCIS requires one for every foreign-language document under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), and immigration courts require a similar certification under 8 CFR 1003.33. In the United States, “certified” refers to that signed statement, not to a government license: USCIS does not certify translators.
In the United States, a certified translation means the translator’s signed statement of accuracy and competence. USCIS does not certify translators, and no U.S. certification exists for Pashto or Dari translation, so Ariana Nexus sets its own written standard, trains and qualifies its linguists to it, and has a second linguist review every page.
USCIS requires the translator to certify competence and accuracy, and a translator may be contacted if an officer has questions. Applicants and relatives are generally advised not to translate their own documents. Your attorney will advise on your case.
No. USCIS asks for the translator’s certification, not a notary. Some courts, universities and foreign authorities do ask for notarization, which we arrange on request.
We translate the entry exactly as written, for example “fourteen years in 1388,” and give the Gregorian span of that year in brackets. We never compute or insert a date of birth; where counsel needs it, a translator’s note explains the entry.
Yes. The e-tazkira prints only some fields in English. Others, including the father’s and grandfather’s names, appear in Pashto or Dari only, and every foreign-language word on a document submitted to USCIS needs a certified translation.
The data page of an Afghan passport already carries English, and attorneys often file it without translation. Stamps, visas, endorsements and handwritten notes in Pashto or Dari are different; we translate the pages your attorney or the receiving office asks for and flag every page that carries non-English text.
We keep the date as written and add the Gregorian equivalent in brackets, for example 15 Jawza 1402 [June 5, 2023]. Afghan documents use zodiac month names; dates in the lunar Islamic calendar, common on religious documents, are converted by a linguist and noted.
We agree one English spelling with you or your attorney, usually the spelling on your passport, I-94 or earlier filings, and apply it to every document. We never change what the original says; where documents disagree, the consistency memo shows counsel exactly where.
Yes. We translate them exactly as they read, including the issuing authority’s name and seals, without altering, omitting or commenting on them. Whether a receiving agency accepts a document is its decision.
No. Afghanistan is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention, so Afghan documents are legalized through consular channels instead. We translate documents; we do not legalize them or contact Afghan authorities.
Pashto, Dari and 22 more Afghan languages, into English for USCIS and U.S. courts and into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Russian, Chinese, Hindi and Urdu for use abroad. Afghan official documents are issued in Pashto, Dari or both, and a document that mixes the two is translated under a single certification. Dari is Afghan Persian, sometimes searched for as Farsi; we translate it as Afghan Dari.
Standard delivery is two business days for up to five pages, priority is the next business day, and hearing or interview deadlines can be met the same day by arrangement. Family files and batches run on a written schedule agreed before work begins.
Documents move through encrypted links, only the linguists on your file can open them, they never enter public AI or machine-translation tools, and source files are deleted on a written schedule after delivery.
As of September 2026: a federal court vacated USCIS’s nationality-based holds in June 2026 (Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island v. USCIS), and in August 2026 the appeals court allowed the re-review of previously approved benefits to continue during the appeal. Policies are changing quickly, so ask your attorney about your case. We translate; we do not give legal advice.
Yes. We work by matter, with one intake, one glossary and one invoice per matter number, written schedules for batches, and mutual NDAs and master services agreements on request.
We quote a fixed fee per document before any work begins, based on page count, legibility, turnaround and whether a consistency review is needed. Law firms, legal aid organizations and agencies can request matter or volume terms.
Tell us which documents you have, where they will be filed and your deadline. We confirm the page count, the name and date key and a fixed fee before any work begins.
Start a requestA mutual NDA is available before you share any document.
