Certified interpreters and translation services in Oxnard / Ventura County.

Yes. AMS supplies certified court interpreters to the Superior Court of California, County of Ventura, including the Hall of Justice at 800 South Victoria Avenue in Ventura, the East County Courthouse in Simi Valley, and the Juvenile Justice Center (dedicated to Justice Steven Z. Perren) in Oxnard. Spanish, indigenous languages, and other languages are available for hearings, trials, and depositions.

Ventura County falls within the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Western Division, which by statute includes Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties and holds court in downtown Los Angeles at the First Street U.S. Courthouse and the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse. AMS supplies federally certified court interpreters for these venues.

No. Ventura County has no local immigration court. Immigration matters are handled by the U.S. Department of Justice EOIR Los Angeles Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court at 6230 Van Nuys Blvd. in Van Nuys, which opened in December 2019 and covers Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Kern counties plus part of Los Angeles County. Some hearings are conducted by video. AMS supplies interpreters for these proceedings.

Yes. The Oxnard area is the documented hub of an estimated 20,000 indigenous Mexican farmworkers, many of whom speak Mixteco, Zapoteco, Purepecha, or Triqui rather than Spanish, and many of whom are monolingual in their indigenous language. AMS coordinates indigenous-language interpreters for legal, medical, and community matters in La Colonia, El Rio, Nyeland Acres, and surrounding farmworker communities. These language pools are smaller than Spanish, so advance notice is helpful.

AMS coordinates medically qualified interpreters for St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, St. John's Hospital Camarillo, Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura, Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura and its Ojai Valley campus, Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, and Adventist Health Simi Valley.

Spanish leads by a wide margin, since the county is roughly 44 percent Hispanic or Latino and about 38 percent of residents speak a language other than English at home. Indigenous Mexican languages such as Mixteco, Zapoteco, Purepecha, and Triqui are a distinctive and significant need in the Oxnard area, followed by Tagalog, tied to the Filipino-American community around Naval Base Ventura County. AMS handles all of these and more than 200 languages overall.

AMS does not have a physical office in Ventura County. We serve Oxnard and the entire county from our Los Angeles headquarters, coordinating certified court interpreters, medical interpreters, document translation, audio transcription, sign language interpreters, and video remote interpreting across more than 200 languages. Call (800) 919-2029 to discuss your request.