Spanish interpreters in Washington, DC.
Looking for a Spanish interpreter in Washington, DC? AMS provides certified Spanish interpreters for depositions, court, medical appointments, immigration interviews and meetings across the District and its Maryland and Virginia suburbs, 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 Washington, DC
- 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 Washington, DC
About 900,000 people in the Washington area speak Spanish at home, and about half of them have Central American roots: Salvadorans are the largest group, followed by Mexicans, Guatemalans, Puerto Ricans, Hondurans, Peruvians and Bolivians (Census ACS 2024). Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant are the historic center of Latino DC; today much of the community lives in Langley Park, Adelphi and Wheaton in Maryland and in Manassas and Woodbridge in Virginia.
Some Guatemalan families in the area speak a Mayan language such as Mam first, and need an interpreter for that language rather than Spanish. There is no permanent immigration court in the District: since the Arlington court closed in 2022, DC-area cases are assigned to Annandale and Sterling, Virginia, and Maryland suburban cases to Hyattsville. In 2026 some of these hearings were moved to temporary sites in Washington and Falls Church, so the hearing notice is the place to check the address.
Neighborhoods and nearby cities with large Spanish-speaking communities include Columbia Heights, Mount Pleasant, Langley Park, MD, Wheaton, MD, Manassas, VA and Woodbridge, VA.
State courts
- Superior Court of the District of Columbia, H. Carl Moultrie I Courthouse, 500 Indiana Avenue NW
Federal court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse, 333 Constitution Avenue NW
Immigration courts and USCIS
- Annandale Immigration Court, 7619 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA
- Sterling Immigration Court, 21400 Ridgetop Circle, Sterling, VA
- Hyattsville Immigration Court, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD
- USCIS Washington Field Office, 2675 Prosperity Avenue, Fairfax, VA
Hospitals
- MedStar Washington Hospital Center
- George Washington University Hospital
- Children's National Hospital
- Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center GW Health, Ward 8 (opened 2025)
DC Superior Court's Office of Court Interpreting Services keeps a registry of certified and qualified freelance interpreters; certified Spanish interpreters hold National Center for State Courts or federal (FCICE) certification.
What we interpret in Spanish in Washington, DC
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
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Spanish court interpreters
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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 Washington, DC?
Same day in most cases; next day almost always. Requests are confirmed within the hour.
What credential should a court interpreter have in DC?
DC Superior Court's Office of Court Interpreting Services keeps a registry of certified and qualified freelance interpreters; certified Spanish interpreters hold National Center for State Courts or federal (FCICE) certification.
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 Washington, DC
Requests are confirmed within the hour, and same-day and next-day bookings are routine.
Most quote requests are answered within 10 minutes.