Degree doc/diplomas translated

[START2]

We're at a point where we need diplomas translated with U.S equivalent.  Did  search on net and there are many companies that seem to do the job. One memeber  Pm'd me a reputable company but they want translation done by another firm then they will credit the equivalent. I'd like to use an all-in-one service if possible.
  So the question is, have any of you used a college translation/diploma equivalent service? Were you pleased with their work? Did prospective employers accept them? I know prices will vary but what was your cost? Were they professional in appearance?
  I saw and asked one firm out of the fre russain mags that you get at the local ru. markets here and they seemed reasonable. Have any of you used them?
  Any reccomendations will be appreciated.

[Jet]

We used Josef Silney & associates. Prompt, professional, excellent customer service. Cost to evaluate Lil's diploma and transcripts was $175.00 extra certified copies were $12 if I recall correctly. She'll have to submit original diploma and transcipt as well as photocopies of each. FL Dept. of Education was more than happy to accept their evaluation, and ranking. Cert. copies come on heavy bond paper with company logo security background and watermarked as well as sealed with raised stamp of linguist that performed translations. They will also ship directly to potential employers at your request.

[jb]

Just curious, Start2, what are your wife's employment goals?  If it is to get into the teaching field you might want to visit with the local school's office, as education districts often have a perferred provider of these evals.

We have gone through this twice now, once for the Catholic college where she still teaches, and then had to have everything re-evaluated when she went to work as an Adjunct at the state supported school because they had their own pet evaluator.  Jet is right on the money, about the money, each time the cost was about $150-175.

[START2]

At this time she'd feel more comfortable with an engineering firm than teaching. She's taking a few classes now to familiarize herself with  American standards and aces everything. She had a surprise pre-interview with a local chemical/structural firm at school the other day and it's time to translate her docs. Her teacher set it up from contacts he knows. Her heart's in teaching but for now she'd like to be work directly in eng'ing.
  Jet, thats one place I didn't see. I'll check it out tonight. jb, the place we talked about wanted everything translated first. Those costs, seem in-line with what I've seen. Thanks.

[jb]

Start2,

We translated everything ourself, I just built a table similar to the transcript in MS Word/Excel, (I don't remember which now), and did a direct word for word translation, line-by-line, then certified at the bottom of each page that we were competent Russian/English/Russian translators and they were fine with that. 

Heck, now that I think about it, I could have probably gotten her a Phd if I'd put my mind to it.

[jb]

As an added touch, my wife is currently winging her way to Baltimore, MD. for a class reunion of sorts this weekend.  There were 22 grads in her class that year, and over 25% of them are now living and working in the US, and another one we know of, is in London.  Five of those grads will be there for the party.  I've read elsewhere that Prez Putin is very upset with the *brain drain* that's taking place in Russia these days, if the rest of the intelligencia is leaving Russia at the same rate as her classmates, I can understand his concern.

On the Immigration section we recently read the piece condemning immigration of so-called Mail Order Brides without any mention of the illegal immigration problem with the uneducated Mexicans. It seems to me, we, as importers of a higher class of  emigrants, are doing the country a huge favor that should have been addressed in that article.  We very often see questions concerning how to get diplomas evaluated around here, to my simple way of thinking, this indicates our Russian brides are a cut above the average.  We should be thanked for our contribrution, not denigrated.

[BC]

jb,

I would think both groups end up serving the nation well, albeit at different ends of the spectrum.

I wonder what would happen if all illegal immigrants from southern neighbors were deported tomorrow..

Would prices rise for all those veggies if the workers had to be paid minimum wage? Would they even get picked and packaged?
Would folks have to quit their taxpaying jobs to take care of the kids because they can't afford the nanny anymore?
Will grandma or -pa have to be put in a home because low cost in-house care disappeared?

I'm not condoning illegal immigration, but it seems even the government hasn't figured out the full implications and settle with hiring contractors at the lowest cost (using illegal immigrants) to do jobs like clean up N.O. or build hundreds of miles of fences somewhere in the desert.  The Chineese built the Great Wall how long ago by hand?  I'm sure if the US really wanted an impenetrable border it would have been done long ago.  Politicians though seem quite content on trying to keep the Titanic afloat with their champagne corks.

As long as someone is willing (or needs) to hire illegals they will hop the fence..  It's a supply/demand situation.

[START2]

hey guys, I wasn't meaning for this to turn into a immigration issue. I just wanted to know what evaluation firms any of you used for your wives education docs.

[Captmonk1]

Am I too late on this one?  We had my wife's degree translated and evaluated here:

http://www.ece.org/

They did a great job considering that the degree's translated into two Masters...one in Chemical Engineering and one in Economics. 

We were also pleasently surprised that the two colleges we have talked with so far, has given her credit for the classes she took and they DID recognize ECE evaluations. One was the Junior College and one was University of Tennessee.

[START2]

I researched several of the sites and some compaines ie. WES will require and send for proof to the particular university that the person attended. Did any of you experience this part of the evaluation?, or did they honor your translation and do the evaluation at this point without sending for proof?  My wife says she knows that some institutions get this request but instead of sending proof, pitch the request in the trash.

[Jet]

The company we used, did the translations themselves and did NOT contact the university abroad, but the did require originals of the diploma and transcipt.

[Captmonk1]

I researched several of the sites and some compaines ie. WES will require and send for proof to the particular university that the person attended. Did any of you experience this part of the evaluation?, or did they honor your translation and do the evaluation at this point without sending for proof?  My wife says she knows that some institutions get this request but instead of sending proof, pitch the request in the trash.

We sent original transcripts and ECE translated them themselves along with copy of diploma if I remember right.

[jb]

Here are a few more.  Depending on what line of work the foreign graduate is shooting for some are better than others.  In our case we were specifically interested in only those evaluators which were acceptable to Universities.

www.fcsa.biz
www.gceus.com
www.jsilny.com
www.wes.org