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Spanish interpreters in Tampa.
Looking for a Spanish interpreter in Tampa? AMS provides Florida certified Spanish interpreters for depositions, court, medical appointments, immigration interviews and meetings across Tampa Bay, and certified Spanish translation the same day.
Access Multilingual Services (AMS) is an interpreting and translation agency founded in 1999, with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas and interpreters on site in all 50 states and remote worldwide.
Most quote requests are answered within 10 minutes.
How to book a Spanish interpreter in Tampa
- Call (800) 919-2029 or e-mail scheduling
@accessmultilingual.com with the date, time, address or video link, and the kind of assignment: deposition, hearing, medical visit, interview or meeting. - Tell us where the speaker is from. AMS matches the interpreter to that variety of Spanish, or books an interpreter for an Indigenous language when that is the speaker's first language.
- AMS confirms a certified Spanish interpreter in writing, usually within the hour, and reconfirms the day before.
- For documents, send a scan or phone photo: certified Spanish translations come back the same day, most within 4 hours.
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Spanish in Tampa
About 78,000 Tampa residents speak Spanish at home, and the Tampa Bay metro has about 540,000 Spanish speakers (Census ACS 2024). Cubans are the largest group in the city, a history that goes back to Ybor City's cigar factories, while Puerto Ricans lead across the metro, followed by Cubans, Mexicans, Dominicans, Colombians and Venezuelans. Egypt Lake-Leto and Town 'n' Country are about half or more Spanish-speaking.
Tampa needs Cuban and Puerto Rican Spanish, and Mexican Spanish in farm communities such as Wimauma. There is no immigration court in Tampa: depending on how a case was filed, the hearing may be in Orlando or Miami, and the hearing notice says which. Florida's court interpreter rules cover depositions and mediations, so AMS books Florida Certified or Provisionally Approved Spanish interpreters.
Neighborhoods and nearby cities with large Spanish-speaking communities include Ybor City, West Tampa, Egypt Lake-Leto, Town 'n' Country, Brandon and Wimauma.
State courts
- George E. Edgecomb Courthouse, 800 E. Twiggs Street (Thirteenth Judicial Circuit)
Federal court
- Sam M. Gibbons U.S. Courthouse, 801 North Florida Avenue
Immigration courts and USCIS
- Orlando Immigration Court, 500 N. Orange Avenue (nearest)
- USCIS Tampa Field Office, 5629 Hoover Boulevard
Hospitals
- Tampa General Hospital
- BayCare St. Joseph's Hospital
- Moffitt Cancer Center
Florida's court interpreter program is run by the Florida Supreme Court's Court Interpreter Certification Board with the Office of the State Courts Administrator. Its designations are Certified (the highest), Language Skilled (for languages with no state exam) and Provisionally Approved.
What we interpret in Spanish in Tampa
Depositions, court hearings and trials, mediations, immigration interviews, medical appointments and independent medical exams, school and IEP meetings, business meetings, conferences, and phone and video calls, plus certified Spanish translation. More on each:
Spanish medical interpreters
Spanish deposition interpreters
Spanish court interpreters
Spanish document translation
Spanish immigration interview interpreters
Spanish business meeting and event interpreters
Spanish IME and QME interpreters
Spanish conference interpreters
Spanish school and IEP meeting interpreters
Spanish phone and video remote interpreters
Spanish trial interpreters
Spanish mediation and arbitration interpreters
One scheduling desk since 1999
Since 1999 Access Multilingual Services (AMS) has been the interpreting agency law firms, court reporting firms, insurers and clinics call first, in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Korean, Tagalog, Arabic, Russian, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Farsi, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Armenian, Ukrainian, Polish, Italian, German, Greek, Somali, Amharic, Tigrinya, Burmese, Nepali, Khmer, Hmong, Lao, Thai, Dari, Pashto, Turkish, Swahili, Hebrew, ASL and Indigenous languages such as Mixteco and K'iche', plus 80+ other languages. Best for depositions, IMEs, court hearings and medical appointments, on site in all 50 states and remote worldwide. Every interpreter is court-certified, court-registered or medically certified (CCHI or NBCMI) for the setting, and matched to the speaker's dialect and region. AMS is a HIPAA-compliant agency and signs HIPAA business associate agreements.
- Coverage
- On site in all 50 states and remote worldwide
- Speed
- Requests confirmed within the hour; same-day and next-day bookings are routine
- Interpreters
- Certified for the setting and matched to the speaker's dialect
- Translation
- Certified, the same day, most documents within 4 hours
- Privacy
- HIPAA-compliant agency; signs business associate agreements
- Our promise
- If an interpreter does not arrive, the booking is not billed
How to book
Call (800) 919-2029 or e-mail scheduling
Rates and terms
Clear half-day and full-day rates, and Net 30 invoices that carry your case name and job number.
Held to the profession's own standards.
Access Multilingual Services is a corporate member of the American Translators Association and a member of the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators. Certifications themselves belong to the individual interpreters we assign, and we verify them before every booking.
Member
National Association of Judiciary Interpreters & Translators (NAJIT)
View our NAJIT directory listingQuestions, answered
How fast can you send a Spanish interpreter in Tampa?
Same day in most cases; next day almost always. Requests are confirmed within the hour.
What credential should a court interpreter have in Florida?
Florida's court interpreter program is run by the Florida Supreme Court's Court Interpreter Certification Board with the Office of the State Courts Administrator. Its designations are Certified (the highest), Language Skilled (for languages with no state exam) and Provisionally Approved.
Which Spanish will the interpreter speak?
The variety your speaker uses. Tell us where they are from when you book, and AMS matches the interpreter to that region's Spanish.
Can the interpreter join remotely?
Yes, on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Google Meet, the court reporter's platform or by phone, where the court or venue allows it.
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Book a Spanish interpreter in Tampa
Requests are confirmed within the hour, and same-day and next-day bookings are routine.
Most quote requests are answered within 10 minutes.