New York’s established Ukrainian community centers on the East Village’s Little Ukraine and parts of Brooklyn, with substantial recent arrivals since 2022.
Ukrainian and Russian are separate languages. Many Ukrainians are bilingual, but assigning a Russian interpreter to a Ukrainian speaker without asking is both a professional error and, for many, a genuinely sensitive one. Preference should be established at booking, not in the room. Some Ukrainians will explicitly decline to proceed in Russian.
Ukrainian uses Cyrillic with letters Russian does not have, and place and personal names are transliterated inconsistently across documents — a recurring source of identity discrepancies in case files.
Common contexts
Immigration and humanitarian parole matters, asylum, personal injury, workers’ compensation, and medical appointments.
Coverage and availability
- In person: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island, and Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk). We also take in-person assignments in New Jersey and Connecticut
- Remote: phone or video interpreting, available nationwide
- Short notice: accepted
- Hours: 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week
Why firms keep calling us
- 25+ years interpreting in New York legal and medical settings
- NAJIT member — National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators
- 5.0 stars on Google across 17 reviews
- Trusted by attorneys, carriers, SIU teams, and healthcare providers
Book an interpreter
Call (718) 496-9129 or email inquiries@interpret.agency — available 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week. Most bookings take under two minutes.
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- Deposition interpreters in NYC
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- Independent medical examination (IME) interpreters
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- Asylum interpreter services
Other languages we interpret
Spanish · Mandarin · Cantonese · French · Korean · Arabic · Portuguese · Russian · Haitian Creole · Polish · Albanian · Punjabi · Wolof · Uzbek · Hindi · Croatian · Soninke