Certified Translation in Ontario
A2Z Language Hub delivers IRCC-accepted certified translation to every city in Ontario, fully online, starting at $55 CAD per page.
Ontario receives more newcomers each year than any other province, and almost every one of them has to file a document that was not written in English or French. Certified translation is the step that makes those documents usable: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada runs its largest processing operation in the province, the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program draws on the same civil-status records, and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice sits in every judicial region from Windsor to Thunder Bay. A2Z Language Hub translates and certifies all of them, remotely, for clients anywhere in the province.
Demand in Ontario is unusually broad because the province concentrates so many different kinds of gatekeeper. The Greater Toronto Area generates immigration and family-sponsorship files; Ottawa adds federal departments and bilingual employment records; the university corridor from Waterloo to London turns over international transcripts every admissions cycle; and World Education Services, the credential evaluator most Canadian regulators point to, assesses foreign degrees from its Toronto office. A certified translation that satisfies one of these will satisfy the others, which is why we certify every Ontario order the same way.
Is there a certified translator in Ontario?
Yes. A2Z Language Hub's certified translators serve every community in Ontario, 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. Ontario 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 Ontario institutions require a certified translation?
Immigration offices, courts, universities, credential evaluators and licensing bodies in Ontario 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 Ontario clients most often submit our translations to are:
- Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (Toronto processing centre and national headquarters in Ottawa)
- Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP)
- Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Ontario Court of Justice
- World Education Services (WES), Toronto
- ServiceOntario — exchange of a foreign driver’s licence
- Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General
- University of Toronto, York University, Toronto Metropolitan University, McMaster University, Western University and the University of Waterloo
- Law Society of Ontario and Ontario professional colleges
What are the most requested translation languages in Ontario?
The languages most often requested for certified translation in Ontario are Mandarin, Arabic, Punjabi, Spanish, Tagalog, Hindi, Farsi, Urdu, Italian and French. Ontario has no single dominant source language — the GTA’s Mandarin, Punjabi and Urdu communities, Ottawa’s Arabic and Somali populations, and the long-settled Italian and Portuguese communities of Hamilton and Toronto all generate certified-translation work, and French appears constantly because federal files and Ottawa-region employment records move between the two official languages. 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 Ontario residents most often need translated?
Certified translation orders from Ontario 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:
- Birth and marriage certificates for permanent residence, citizenship and OINP applications
- Academic transcripts and degree certificates for WES credential evaluations and university admissions
- Foreign driver’s licences for a ServiceOntario exchange — both sides of the card
- Affidavits, contracts and foreign judgments filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice
- Police certificates and divorce decrees supporting permanent-residence and sponsorship files
- Professional licences and registration records for Ontario regulatory colleges
Which cities in Ontario do we serve?
A2Z Language Hub serves 22 cities in Ontario, Toronto, Ottawa and Brampton among them. Open yours below for the institutions local clients file with, the languages most requested there and the documents residents order most. The service, the certification and the price are the same in all of them.