Many of India’s legal civil documents are either in Hindi or one of the official Indian languages of Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu. These documents include Birth Certificate, Academic Diploma, Degree, Marriage Certificate, Divorce Decree, Driver's License, Police Clearance report, etc.

When applying to the USCIS and other US agencies, it is essential that Hindi certified translation of these documents are submitted.

Hindi is the fourth most spoken language of the world. It is estimated that worldwide between 550 to 600 million people speak Hindi. Of India’s 1.2 billion people, over 40% consider Hindi to be their first language.

The Indian constitution recognizes 22 official languages, including Hindi. Hindi is the official state language of 10 Indian states & 3 Indian Union Territories. In addition to India, countries that have a substantial Hindi speaking population include USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Fiji, Nepal, Mauritius, Singapore, South Africa, Fiji, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, UAE and Yemen.

Hindi is a phonetic language where words are written just as they are pronounced. The Hindi script is the Devanagari script. Hindi belongs to the Hindustani branch of the Indo-Iranian and Indo-European language family.

There are a large number of Indians who go to USA every year. In 2010 India sent the third largest number of permanent residents to the USA. India sent the second largest number of foreign students to US universities. Thecertifiedtranslation.com provided countless Hindi certified translation destined to the USCIS immigration office.

Indians also constituted the largest group of H1B long term work visa applicants to the USA. The US has approximately 2.8 million people of Indian origin. There are over half a million Hindi speakers in the US and other Indian languages that have substantial speakers in the US include Guajarati, Punjabi, Bengali and Marathi.