Pashto and Dari Interpreting and Translation for Universities: Admissions, Student Services and Title IX

Most U.S. universities and credential evaluators ask for a complete, word-for-word English translation of every document not issued in English, with a translator’s signed statement of accuracy. That is what we deliver, stamps and handwritten notes included. Acceptance is always the decision of your institution or evaluator, and where a jurisdiction requires a sworn translator, as Germany’s uni-assist does, we tell you at intake.

The Shahadatnama is Afghanistan’s 12th Grade Graduation Certificate, formerly called the Baccalaureate, issued by the Ministry of Education at the end of grades 10 to 12. Many are printed in English, Pashto and Dari. We translate every line that appears only in Pashto or Dari, including seals, and convert Solar Hijri dates to the Gregorian calendar.

There has been no Afghan embassy or consulate in the United States since 2022, and we never request records from Afghanistan’s de facto authorities. We translate the documents the applicant holds and flag what an evaluator is likely to ask. Routes built for missing documents include the WES Gateway Program in the United States and Canada and the Council of Europe’s European Qualifications Passport for Refugees.

Yes. World Education Services evaluates Afghan credentials, requires exact, word-for-word translations by a professional translator, and runs a Gateway Program for displaced applicants in the United States and Canada, with Afghanistan on its eligible list. We translate for WES and other evaluators; we do not evaluate.

It is not good practice. A relative or friend may be a witness, may know the other party, and cannot offer the confidentiality 34 CFR 106.71 requires. Some universities now write this into policy: a qualified interpreter offered at no cost, a friend or relative only if the person asks after that offer, the choice documented, and overruled where confidentiality or a conflict is at stake.

Under the 2020 rule, either party can ask to sit in a separate room, with technology that lets everyone see and hear the person answering in real time. Our interpreter works in the party’s room or on the same video link, interprets consecutively in the first person, and renders each cross-examination question only after the decision-maker rules it relevant.

Yes. A federal court vacated the 2024 Title IX rule on January 9, 2025, and on September 29, 2026 the Department of Education restored the 2020 regulations to 34 CFR Part 106 (91 FR 61308). Our hearing protocol is written to that text of 34 CFR 106.45, including the relevance ruling the decision-maker makes before any cross-examination question is answered.

Yes, by contract. We work as a school official under 34 CFR 99.31(a)(1)(i)(B): we perform a service your staff would otherwise perform, under your direct control over education records, and we are bound by the no-redisclosure rule in 34 CFR 99.33(a).

Yes. Counseling assignments go to gender-matched interpreters trained in a trauma-informed protocol set by Diana Ayubi, Psy.D., for sessions that may touch the Afghan war, the 2021 evacuation or moral injury. At most universities counseling records are FERPA treatment records rather than HIPAA records; where your health center is a HIPAA covered entity, we sign a business associate agreement.

Yes. Pashto and Dari are available by video and phone on demand, and on site with 24 hours’ notice. Uzbeki, Turkmeni, Balochi, Pashayi and Aimaq are scheduled the same or next business day. Our interpreters interpret; immigration questions stay with your advisers and counsel.

Yes: conduct meetings, hearings and appeals, and critical-incident calls to families in the United States or abroad. FERPA consent still decides what may be shared with a parent. The interpreter changes the language, not the rules.

Machine translation is useful for a first look at a text, not for a record. Engines still make meaning-changing errors in Pashto and Dari that a non-speaker cannot see, and some return Iranian Persian where Afghan Dari was needed. Nothing we deliver into a student record, a notice or a hearing is machine output without review by a qualified human translator.

Twenty-two more: Uzbeki, Turkmeni, Balochi, Pashayi, Aimaq, Kyrgyz, Brahui, Ormuri, Parachi, Wakhi, Shughni, Sanglechi, Ishkashimi, Munji, Yidgha, Gawarbati, Tirahi, Nuristani (Ashkun group), Kati, Prasun, Waigali and Tregami. We also work in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Turkish and Swedish.

Yes. We sign FERPA and data security addenda, a GDPR Article 28 processor agreement for universities in Europe and the United Kingdom, and a business associate agreement where HIPAA applies. We complete your security questionnaire, including the HECVAT, during onboarding.

By purchase order or card for single assignments, or by a term or annual agreement for admissions, counseling and Title IX work. Ariana Nexus is active in SAM.gov (UEI M2UDMUDFXGL9, CAGE 1Z3A3), is registered as a vendor in 37 states, and works across all 50.