Received a RFE on AP

I have applied for AP on September 3rd for a humanitarian reason (my grandmother, who was born in 1922, has been hospitalized for a series of serious medical reasons. And our family members who are also living abroad have been visiting her since then for the obviosous reason). I have requested for an expedite processing of my application, and I received an update on my case status on September 13th indicating that they have requested for more evidence. My younger sister, in an attempt to travel with me to visit our grandmother, has filed the application on the same date (well, I basically did all the paper work and had her signed it) has not received any update since receiving her E 1145 notice.

Today, after a long wait, I received the actual RFE letter, and it indicates that the two forms of proof I prepared to show (1) My grandmother and my relationship (Certificate of kinship) (2) the seriousness of her health condition (Medical Referral) are not sufficient because they were translated by the applicant (which, in this case, is me)

This is the exact wording of the letter

Upon review of the above documents, it is noted that you translated these documents yourself, as evidenced by the certification which bears your name and signiture. USCIS considers translation completed by applicants for their own application to be self serving and therefore insufficient.

Any document containing foreign language that is sumitted to USCIS must be accompanied by a full English language translation which the translator has certificed as complete and accurate, and by the translator's cerfitication that he or she is competent to translate from the foreign language into English.

Please provide translations to the above mentioned documents which have been completed by a translator other than yourself.

After reading the letter, I am both relieved and confused because, as far as I believe, one can translate his/her own documents as long as they supplement it with a certification letter. When I applied for DACA and employment authorization last year for both myself and my younger sister, I translated some of the documents I enclosed and it seemed like there was no trouble at all. Is the officer just being picky? or is there a specific line on the USCIS website indicating this?

Also, now that I know why my case received a RFE, do you think it is okay to have my own sister (who lives with me) to translate the documents? or do you recommend me to find a translator to do this task for me? After all, the letter says that it should be translated by a translator other than me, isn't it?
I personally hate to find a translator because basically every words have been already translated and I will be paying the person (who would probably charge me $50 per page; it wil sum upto $250) for the work I have already finished. But then I am little concerned that if I have my own sister redo the translation (and she would probably just change a word here and there, and it would look more or less the same) the officer might reject it all together for some reason. What do you guys think? Do you think it will be safe to pay someone else do it or am I just being paranoid?

First, sorry about your grandmother.

Second, you can't translate your own documents, nor your sister can do it. Exactly what the letter said is what you have to do: find a CERTIFIED translator. I found one at a local church, lots of immigrants from my area around where i live.

That's what i did for some documents on my DACA application and the price was very reasonable. Nothing like $50/page...

Do it right so you can go and visit your grandmother or regret not going after for a stupid reason.

Pretty much when you or someone else translates a document they need to include an affidavit that he/she is fluent in English and the other language and that the translation is accurate to best of their knowledge. You don't necessarily need to be certified, but obviously having it makes it more legitimate.

Just find a translator that can translate these for you (complete with their said affidavit) and send them the documents again.

Basically they're asking to have like a public notary to translate the documents.

Easy as that.

And how much is an advance parole?

get a translator, simple and easy.

I had mine translated at a local church, where the pastor was certified to translate because he also worked with the immigrations office.
Luckily for me, he did it for free.
Just do some more research.