TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENTS -- InterService Migrants

On Friday I had to find a place to ge t my birth certificate translated into French and found through the Internet an office called Inter Service Migrants.

Apparently this organization is a non-profit advocacy for immigrants, documented or not, and they offer translation and interpretation services in almost thirty languages.

My request was probably very easy for them, and they promised me that they could have my translation done by next Thursday (just in time for my appointment on Friday at the Prefecture, the main administration building of the district).

The cost was 16 Euros but what was interesting was that they asked to see a piece of identification, i.e., that I was in fact the person who was listed on the birth certificate. I suppose they do have occasions where people try to forge documents and they want to cover themselves ... and in fact, the receipt on the order says that the translation can only be picked up by the person listed on the sheet, again upon presentation of a piece of ID.

They are not officially licensed to do translations for the courts, but when I told them it was for the carte de séjour (resident card) they told me that it was all right to get it done there.

The only problem is, I have to rush over to pick it up after class on Thursday. So I get out of class at 4:30, catch the 4:31 bus out, take the metro from one station to another, catch a bus going eastbound and hope to make it there before 5:30, when they close! (Yes, I know that I should've asked them to translate this document while I was here this summer! But I just found out about them just a few days ago ...!)

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Inter Service Migrants
32 cours Lafayette - 69003 LyonTel. 04.72.84.78.99 - Fax : 04 72 62 24 00
E-mail : it@ismcorum.org

Access: Get to Cordeliers metro stop using the Metro A line. Take the #1 bus going eastbound departing from in front of the Le Credit Lyonnais bank and get off at stop Saxe-Lafayette. The office is about 30 feet from the bus stop, in the direction that the bus is traveling