Guidelines to prepare documents
Any document containing a foreign language shall 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.
It is important that your documents are properly scanned and legible, or they will be rejected by USCIS later. Your documents must be:
- Scanned using a scanner. However, you may use your phone to scan your document with the instructions below!
- Formatted to fit in US letter size
- Free from any parts of your body or any objects.
- Located in the middle of the page with no thick borders/edges
- Legible in every respect; that is, every letter, number, symbol, signature, logo, picture, etc.
- Saved in PDF format.
If you do not have a scanner at home, follow the instructions below to scan documents:
In general, a document, whether it contains one page or more) is saved in a file. Label each document file with DOCTYPE-LastName.pdf
- DocType (listed in capital letters)
- Your Last Name
Suppose your name is Sam Goodman, and you are working on the document PASSPORT-ENTRY. You will label your file as: PASSPORT-ENTRY-Goodman.pdf
If a document comes from different sources, your document from each source is saved in a file. You will end up having multiple files for the document.
Suppose you have the most recent statements of credit cards from two banks, you will name your files below:
- Statement of Credit Card 1: CC1-Goodman.pdf
- Statement of Credit Card 2: CC2-Goodman.pdf
Lastly, combine all the files together into a zipped file with the name CC-Goodman.zip.