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American Interpreting & Tutoring Services offers a program to prepare bilinguals to become certified court interpreters for the state of California. The state of California certification process requires that you pass two exams; a written and an oral before you receive your license. State court certified Interpreters make about $68,000.00 per year. According to the US Department of Labor Statistics "Interpreters and translators can expect much faster than average employment growth and employment of interpreters and translators is projected to increase 22 percent over the 2008 -18 decade, which is much faster than the average for all occupations. Job prospects for interpreters and translators vary by specialty and language. For example, interpreters and translators of Spanish should have good job opportunities because of the expected increases in the Hispanic population in the United States. Demand is expected to be strong for interpreters specializing in health care and law". The California Constitution mandates that " person unable to understand English who is charged with a crime has a right to an interpreter throughout the proceedings." Courts must provide specially trained language interpreters for witnesses, victims, and defendants who understand little or no English. This mandate includes criminal, misdemeanor, and delinquency matters, as well as certain civil matters such as divorce or separation involving a protective order, and child custody and visitation proceedi