Certified Translation Services for Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Murfreesboro residents can order certified translations from Apostille Authentications from $65 per page, and most are ready in 1 to 2 business days. Every translation includes a signed certificate of accuracy. We are based in the Portland, Oregon area and serve Rutherford County remotely, with no local office. Documents come to us through the online quote form and go back to you electronically or by mail. Here is what the county, MTSU, USCIS and the Tennessee Secretary of State each require.
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The Tennessee apostille: $2.00 per document, issued in Nashville
If your document is going abroad, the receiving country may ask for an apostille. In Tennessee that comes from the Secretary of State, whose authentications office is in Nashville. Murfreesboro has no apostille office of its own.
Start with the Apostille or Authentication Request Form (SS-4504). Mail goes to the Office of Authentications, Tennessee Secretary of State, 312 Rosa L. Parks Ave, 6th Floor, Nashville, TN 37243. Walk-in service is on the 3rd Floor, Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Central Time, with same-day service for customers who arrive by 2:00 p.m. The fee, as given by the Tennessee Office of Vital Records, is $2.00 per document.
For a notarized document, the Secretary of State’s guide tells you to bring it to the County Clerk so the notary public’s signature is certified before you submit it. Where a translation has to be notarized for a Tennessee apostille, we hire a notary commissioned in Tennessee to notarize the translator’s statement.
Birth, death, marriage and divorce certificates follow a simpler path. A certified copy can be sent directly to the Secretary of State, or you can ask the Office of Vital Records for the copy and the apostille together by enclosing two separate checks.
Rutherford County offices for vital and marriage records
- Rutherford County Health Department. 100 West Burton Street, Murfreesboro, TN 37130. Issues certified copies of birth and death certificates. For birth certificates, the person must have been born in Tennessee in or after 1949. Open 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Smyrna health clinic. 108 David Collins Drive, Smyrna, TN 37167, offers the same certificate service.
- Rutherford County Clerk. 319 North Maple Street, Suite 121, Murfreesboro, TN 37130, with further offices at 3906 Blaze Dr., Suite A (Blackman) and 205 I St., Smyrna. Marriage licenses cost $107.50, or $45.00 with a notarized Certificate of Completion. A certified copy of a marriage license is $5.00 in person or $7.00 by mail.
- State fee for certificates. The Tennessee Department of Health charges $15.00 for each birth, death, marriage or divorce certificate.
MTSU and credentials earned outside the United States
Middle Tennessee State University handles foreign academic records through evaluation. Its international admissions pages call for course-by-course credential evaluations completed by members of NACES, the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services, and its FAQ names World Education Services and Educational Credential Evaluators as accepted evaluators.
Transfer applicants with international credit must also submit official course descriptions for university work completed outside the United States. The pages we read do not set out a separate translation rule. Evaluation agencies set their own document requirements, so ask the agency whether it wants a certified English translation with your originals, and ask MTSU about course descriptions that are not in English.
Ordering from Murfreesboro, start to finish
You do not need an appointment. Upload your document to the quote form as a PDF, JPEG, PNG or Word file, and include every page, stamp and handwritten note. We send a quote from $65 per page. Once you approve it, the translation is usually done in 1 to 2 business days and is delivered by email, with a mailed original available.
Phone support is at (971) 514-3743 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Oregon office hours. Our translators work in 100 languages. Spanish, Russian, Hindi, Urdu, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic and Czech are the most requested. Ask about others.
What USCIS expects from a translation
The rule is short. 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) requires that any document containing foreign language submitted to USCIS be accompanied by a full English language translation which the translator has certified as complete and accurate, and by the translator’s certification that he or she is competent to translate from the foreign language into English.
A full translation means everything on the page, including seals, marginal notes and back-side entries. Our certificate states completeness, accuracy and competence. The decision on any application rests with USCIS.
Courts and local figures
State trial courts for Murfreesboro are served by the Rutherford County Circuit Court Clerk, whose office covers Circuit Civil, Circuit Criminal, General Sessions and Juvenile courts. Federal cases from Rutherford County belong to the Nashville Division of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, at the Fred D. Thompson U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building, 719 Church Street, Nashville, TN 37203. If a court asks for a translated exhibit, confirm the format with the clerk or your lawyer.
The Census Bureau’s 2024 American Community Survey 1-year estimates count 168,382 people in Murfreesboro, of whom 7.5 percent were born in another country.
Related services for Murfreesboro
- Tennessee document translation services: the statewide rules for courts, notaries, vital records and driver licensing
- Tennessee apostille service
- All document translation services
Murfreesboro translation questions
Apostille Authentications serves Murfreesboro remotely from the Portland, Oregon area. You upload documents online and receive a certified translation with a signed certificate of accuracy electronically or by mail.
Translation starts at $65 per page, and most documents are ready in 1 to 2 business days.
The Rutherford County Health Department at 100 West Burton Street issues certified birth certificates for people born in Tennessee in or after 1949. The state fee for a certificate is $15.00.
Submit the document with form SS-4504 to the Tennessee Secretary of State, 312 Rosa L. Parks Ave, Nashville, by mail to the 6th Floor or in person on the 3rd Floor. A notarized document needs the County Clerk’s certification of the notary’s signature first.
Yes. MTSU asks for course-by-course evaluations from NACES members and names WES and ECE as accepted evaluators for international transfer credit.
Yes. When a translation needs to be notarized for Tennessee, Apostille Authentications hires a notary commissioned in Tennessee to notarize the translator’s statement, and the County Clerk then certifies that notary’s signature before the apostille request.
Sources
The local details on this page come from these official sources.
- Tennessee Secretary of State, Apostille and Authentication Guide
- Tennessee Office of Vital Records, apostille on a certificate
- Tennessee Office of Vital Records, fees
- Tennessee Office of Vital Records, how to get a certificate
- 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), eCFR
- Rutherford County Health Department, services
- Rutherford County Clerk, marriage licenses
- Rutherford County Circuit Court Clerk
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, divisions of court
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, court locations
- MTSU International Affairs, undergraduate admission
- MTSU International Affairs, FAQ
- Census Reporter, Murfreesboro, TN (ACS 2024 1-year)
Get your Murfreesboro translation started
Upload your document for a quote, or call (971) 514-3743 and tell us where the translation is going. We confirm the level of certification you need before any work begins.