A Report On The Translation Of Study Of The United States Immigrant Investor Program (EB-5) (Excerpts)

Study of the United States Immigrant Investor Program(EB-5)is a report issued in May 2010 by the international consulting firm,ICF,based on their study of the investment immigration program,EB-5 program.It assesses the estimated contribution of the EB-5 program to the U.S economy for the aim of showing the economic impact of the investment during a certain period(2001-2006).The report refers to investigation and review of relevant departments,comprehensively presenting an analysis on the contribution of immigrant investment from various countries to the U.S.mainland,and puts forward a series of recommendations for government agencies and immigration authorities for their further undertaking.The translator translates the first half of the report,completing the translation practice through based on the techniques and theory of translation and analyzing the translation in professional area in general.The source text is a social investigation report,which involves a large number of data,charts,annotations and technical terms,so it is necessary to ensure the accuracy of the professional terms and fluency of language in the target language.The style of the source text is linguistically formal,emotionally neutral,with a large quantity of complex sentences,passive voice as well as numerous professional terms.Moreover,it covers the contents of immigration,law and statistics,so it has a strong comprehensiveness.As for the translation strategies,the translator adopts a combination of semantic translation and communicative translation according to Peter Newmark’s translation approach so that it is not only accurately transfer all sorts of data and information in the study,but also makes the target language smooth,concise and clear to improve the readability of the translated text.Considering the lack of translation research on immigrant investors’ programs and reports,the translator intends to deliver the authoritative information in this field to readers by this translation practice and bring survey data and reference to relevant departments and researchers for their studies,contributing certain translation strategies to rendering this type of documents from English to Chinese.