Certified Translation in Nunavut
A2Z Language Hub delivers IRCC-accepted certified translation to every city in Nunavut, fully online, starting at $55 CAD per page.
Nunavut is one of only two jurisdictions in Canada without an immigration nominee program — Quebec is the other — so newcomers here arrive through federal pathways, employer work permits or family sponsorship rather than a territorial nomination. That does not reduce the need for certified translation; it concentrates it on IRCC applications, on professional credentials for territorial employers, and on documents filed with the Nunavut Court of Justice, all of which require a complete translation carrying the translator’s signed certification.
The territory’s language framework is unlike anywhere else in the country. Nunavut’s Official Languages Act and its Inuit Language Protection Act give Inuktut — Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun — standing alongside English and French, with an Office of the Languages Commissioner to enforce it, and the Association des francophones du Nunavut serves a small francophone population in Iqaluit. A2Z Language Hub provides certified Inuktitut translation as well as the newcomer languages that arrive through employment, and everything is handled remotely across all 25 communities.
Is there a certified translator in Nunavut?
Yes. A2Z Language Hub's certified translators serve every community in Nunavut, and the service is delivered online rather than over a counter: send a scan or a phone photograph of your document, approve a fixed quote, and the certified translation comes back by email with a signed certificate of accuracy naming the translator and their credentials. That certificate is what IRCC, Canadian courts, universities and provincial licensing bodies require, and it is included in every order at no extra charge. Pricing starts at $55 per page and does not change with your distance from our office.
Being outside a large city changes nothing about the work or the price. Nunavut clients in smaller communities get the same translators, the same certification and the same turnaround options as clients in the province's largest centres, because nothing in the process depends on you being able to reach a translation office in person.
Which Nunavut institutions require a certified translation?
Immigration offices, courts, universities, credential evaluators and licensing bodies in Nunavut all require a certified translation of any document that is not in English or French, and each of them accepts the same thing: a complete translation of the document accompanied by the translator's signed statement of accuracy. None of them keeps a list of approved vendors. The bodies Nunavut clients most often submit our translations to are:
- Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada — federal pathways, as Nunavut has no nominee program
- Nunavut Court of Justice
- Office of the Languages Commissioner of Nunavut
- Nunavut Arctic College
- Qikiqtani General Hospital and the Department of Health
- Government of Nunavut departments, under the Official Languages Act and the Inuit Language Protection Act
- Association des francophones du Nunavut
What are the most requested translation languages in Nunavut?
The languages most often requested for certified translation in Nunavut are Inuktitut, Tagalog, French, Mandarin, Hindi, Arabic, Spanish, Punjabi, Urdu and Inuinnaqtun. Inuktitut is the territory’s majority language and the one that distinguishes Nunavut’s translation needs from every other jurisdiction, while Tagalog, Hindi and Punjabi arrive almost entirely through recruitment into health care, retail and government services in Iqaluit, and French through the territory’s official-language obligations. Written translation is available in 90+ languages overall, so a pair that is not on this list is still very likely covered — ask for a quote rather than assuming it is not.
Which documents do Nunavut residents most often need translated?
Certified translation orders from Nunavut are mostly civil-status records, academic credentials and court filings. Every document is translated in full — including stamps, seals, handwritten annotations and the reverse of the page — and certified with a signed statement of accuracy, because a summary or an extract is the most common reason a filing is returned. The documents this region generates most are:
- Inuktitut-to-English and English-to-Inuktitut translations for territorial institutions and programs
- Nursing, medical and allied-health credentials for registration and for Department of Health recruitment
- Birth and marriage certificates for permanent residence, citizenship and family sponsorship
- Employment records and employer letters for work-permit and federal economic applications
- Academic transcripts and credentials for Nunavut Arctic College admissions and credential assessment
- Affidavits and foreign judgments filed in the Nunavut Court of Justice
Which cities in Nunavut do we serve?
A2Z Language Hub serves Iqaluit and every other community in Nunavut from a single online service. Open the Iqaluit page below for the institutions local clients file with, the languages most requested there and the documents residents order most.