Located in Houston, Texas, SpanTran Educational Services, Inc. referred to herein as SpanTran, provides translations and credential(s) evaluations. First operating under two DBA’s (1980 and 1982), SpanTran was incorporated in Texas in 1989 and reincorporated in 2004. In the Spring of 1996, SpanTran joined the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services, Inc. / NACES as a regular member. Membership in NACES establishes that the credentials evaluation service follows placement guidelines of the National Council on the Evaluation of Foreign Educational Credentials. Affiliation with a selective association such as NACES is an important indication of the quality of work accomplished by a foreign credential evaluation service and an assurance that the evaluation reports it prepares will be reliable.