Follow the requirements of the responsible process. USCIS generally requires a full English translation and the required certification for a foreign-language document; a summary should not be represented as that translation. Consular instructions may differ, so identify the actual request before commissioning work.
Give the translator the complete record
Preserve pages, stamps and relevant annotations according to the applicable requirements. Explain any illegible portion honestly rather than guessing. A translator can convey the document’s meaning but cannot authenticate a fact by adding information that was not in the source.
Two document sets run in parallel and deserve separate folders. The first supports the underlying immigrant classification — the EB-1A or EB-2 national-interest-waiver record — and is judged against the same evidentiary criteria that governed it before. The second is the payment trail: the receipt for the nonrefundable US$15,000 processing fee and, only after vetting and only on official instruction, the record of the US$1 million gift transferred by the applicant to the U.S. government. For anything filed with USCIS, a foreign-language document needs a full English translation carrying the translator’s certification of competence and completeness under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3); a consular process may instruct otherwise, so the instruction itself belongs in the file beside the document.
Hypothetical example: a bookbinding supplier’s accountant produces a one-page English digest of a twelve-page foreign trust deed. Submitted as the translation it is deficient on its face, and the defect is procedural rather than substantive — the underlying facts may be entirely sound. The remedy is a certified full translation of the original, with the digest kept separately as a working note and never offered as the exhibit.
Label each exhibit with the folder it belongs to and the requirement it answers. Keep the source of every payment instruction stored with the payment record, and confirm the current instruction before acting on a copy of an older one.