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RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN QUALIFICATIONS

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READINESS CHECK

We try to do our best to observe the procedure of recognition times and to issue decisions in time. However, there are isolated cases when a delay is possible in the recognition procedure for reasons beyond our control. In view of this, before planning your trip to pick up the recognition documents, please make sure your documents are ready. For this purpose, please look for your registration number in the list of decisions or check your application status using the e-search system (below)

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ADDITIONAL SERVICES

If you are not in Kyiv, you do not have to waste your time travelling to the city to pick up the decision on the recognition of your foreign educational document. You may also receive it by mail. For this purpose, you will only need to arrange, at the time of your personal document submission, for the decision to be delivered by express mail to the address that you have indicated in your application.

This service costs UAH 60.

ISSUE PROCEDURE

      Collection of the documents

  1. After the recognition procedure is completed the applicant gets an SMS message on the mobile phone number specified in his/her application. The completion of application could be checked as well in your Personal Cabinet, in the section«Readiness Check» using the registration number of the application. Or you may call our office at +38044 486 20 43, +38044 486 25 43 according to the schedule for receiving telephone calls.
  2. Issued documents may be collected at scheduled times in our office

Please have your receipt with the registration number that you received at the time of making the application.

Documents can be collected by applicants, who have passport or other ID document.

Documents can be collected by:

- the applicant;

- another person whose name was indicated in the application form at the time of submission (incl. the Owner of the documents);

- another person who has a notary certified permission from the applicant to receive documents/decisions of recognition.




WHICH DOCUMENTS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THE RECOGNITION PROCEDURE

The recognition procedure is not applied to:

  • documents issued by educational institutions that are not officially registered (accredited) as entities authorized to provide educational services in their respective countries;
  • documents issued by branches of educational institutions, if these branches are not officially registered (accredited) as entities authorized to provide educational services in the countries within which they conduct educational activities;
  • documents that do not contain any information about the acquisition by their holder of a specific educational or qualification level that entitles the holder to academic or professional rights;
  • non-authentical documents;
  • documents failing to meet the respective state standard and issued in a country the international agreements with which provide for the recognition of exclusively state standard documents;
  • educational documents testifying finishing a program that cannot be correlated with any educational or qualification level and (or) field of study (specialty, qualification) of the educational system of Ukraine;

  • educational documents that are not recognized by the state of origin;

  • educational documents that do not contain sufficient information on the content of the curriculum that makes impossible to assess the qualification and learning outcomes and establish equivalence to the education system of Ukraine;

  • educational documents issued before 15.05.1992 by educational institutions of the former USSR.

  • educational documents that have the number of the ECTS credits earned less than 30 (or equivalent amount of hours).

Ukraine has withdrawn from the Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Education, conducted in Tashkent on May 15, 1992. On March 23, 2023 the Agreement was terminated for Ukraine.