For foreign-language documents submitted to USCIS, use the required full certified English translation rather than assuming a brief summary suffices. Family relationship evidence has its own purpose, separate from the employee’s technical record.
Keep relationship and work authorization evidence distinct
An L dependent child must be unmarried and under 21 and does not receive the spouse’s employment authorization. A qualifying spouse’s permission to work depends on valid L dependent status with appropriate spouse-specific I-94 evidence; translating a marriage record does not itself grant that status. A certified translation includes the translator's own signed statement confirming competence and accuracy, not only the translated text itself.
Avoid having a close family member serve as the translator for the household's own documents, since an independent translator's certification generally carries more weight than one prepared by an interested party to the case itself. Submit the original foreign-language document together with its certified translation as a matched pair, rather than submitting the translation by itself alone, since a reviewer needs both documents together to fully confirm the translation is complete and faithful. Keep a copy of the translator's certification statement with the family's other records, separate from the employee's own technical file, so it can be located quickly if a reviewer ever raises a question about it later on.