Is full fluency required to work as a medical, court, or immigration interpreter in the U.S.? The short answer: yes - but probably not in the way you think. Language proficiency for interpretation goes far beyond casual bilingualism. It demands a specific, testable level of fluency that employers and federal law take seriously.
Immigration interpreter training for bilingual adults turns your language skills into a professional language career. Because the reality is: you must prove that you can speak English and another language to get accepted into our interpreter training programs. Which makes sense because you have to communicate well, in both languages, before we can teach you how to become an immigration interpreter. Sometimes, aspiring students ask us "why?” And the simplest explanation is that immigration interpreters bridge the communication gap between clients and their attorneys... during some of the most stressful, confusing and intimidating times of the clients' life.
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