Nostrification of documents
The recognition of foreign documents on education (previously - nostrification) is aimed at ensuring the rights of citizens who have received education in other states to continue their education and / or professional activity in Ukraine and is carried out individually.
The nostrification of foreign diplomas in Ukraine is conducted by Ministry of Education and science of Ukraine «Information and image center» Recognition (nostrification) procedure in Ukraine educational documents issued by educational institutions in other countries involves:- 1. Authentication submitted for recognition of foreign educational documents is checking of the fact of training and educational documents. If you give legalized documents with stamp «Apostille» or consular legalization, it is enough to recognition authentication of your documents. They will not require verifying the issuance. It will accelerate the recognition procedure. But you have a choice: you can certify documents according to international rights or instruct it to employees of the test Center.
- 2. Official recognition of educational establishment which provided training document by the Ukrainian educational system. This stage includes verification of presence state certificate of accreditation of educational establishment and license in the moment of delivery of this document.
- 3. Establishment of equivalence of qualification noted in foreign educational document to the requirements to educational or educationally qualification levels of the Ukrainian educational system (it is conducted with the help of expert commissions after the proper specialties).
- 4. A comparative analysis of educational programs is comparison of educational programs on maintenance and by a volume which is conducted by the educational establishment of Ukraine accredited after the same specialty that is pointed in the declarant diploma. If such specialty is absent in Ukraine than it is chosen the closest from existing one.
- 1. Recognition certificate is given after recognition procedure. If for recognition of qualification of proprietor of documents about education additional documents are needed (additional studying, testing on a competence or other actions non-fulfillment of which is impossible in order to continue education or employment on this specialty in Ukraine). Declarant will be sent the proper report. In such case the owner of documents about education must make examinations according to the given by experts educational disciplines. Foreign person can choose any higher educational establishment for passing exams and testing. The Center employees will help to organize examination in elected educational establishment. The terms of procedure of recognition of documents are prolonged to the declaration of positive results of testing Center.
- 2. A refuse is in recognition of the given document about education, the proper report is sent to the declarant, here it is pointed the reason of such decision.
As a result of procedure of recognition the owner of foreign documents about education gets a certificate that confirms a right for the owner of documents given out educational establishment of other state on continuation of education or on employment on specialty in Ukraine.
For conducting the procedure of recognition, it is necessary to provide the following documents:
- 1. Application for the recognition procedure
- 2. Consent application for verification of personal data.
- 3. Consent to the processing of personal data
- 4. Certified copy and translation into Ukrainian of a legalized foreign document on education.
- 5. Certified copy and translation into Ukrainian of the legalized annex to a foreign document on education. The document indicates information on the form and duration of training, a list of academic disciplines (subjects), the total (weekly) volume of classroom hours and individual hours (credits), the number of semesters and other components of the educational process.
- 6. Copies of previous higher education or professional qualification.
- 7. Copy of the document which proves this person or declarant and/or owner of foreign document about education.
- 8. Copy of document about the change of the last name of owner of foreign document about education.
- 9. A document about payment for administrative service or copy of document confirming a right on a release from payment.
Order of offering
To begin procedure of recognition of document about education it is necessary:
- 1) certify the package of documents;
- 2) give the prepared package of documents following such methods:
- to send an ordinary letter by post to address:
- 01135, Kyiv, Pavlovska str. 26/41 «informational image center»
- to send by the delivery service to address:
- 01135, Kyiv, Pavlovska str. 26/41 «informational image center»
Attention! The original educational documents (see a chapter «List of documents») are not sent by post but given personally to the Center and after investigation by the specialist they return to the declarant.
The given package of documents is worked over during 10 working days from the moment of its back giving and registration. During this time the specialists of the Center the completeness of package of documents and rightness of registration are checked up.
If the documents given by a declarant are given not in full size and (or) wrong fulfilled they return to the declarant without contemplation with a report.
If the documents given by a declarant are given in full size they are passed for contemplation and it is reported to a declarant about the necessity of producing of originals of documents personally.