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Validation of foreign diplomas
This validation takes place at the school and education department of the regional government authorities. Every regional government authority employs a person responsible for diploma validation. In the case of Southern Moravia regional government authority, this person is Ing. Bc. Dagmar Kostrhůnová (see contact information bellow).
Validation of foreign diplomas is a very complicated process and runs under the system of administrative governance. Validation process of foreign educational outcomes is not subordinate just to the Czech legislation but especially to international agreements: that deal with document validation.
There are different regulations in approach to different countries in mutual diploma validation. Every request is reviewed individually and for this reason it is very hard to generalize about this process.
Basic rules that apply for most countries
All applicants for diploma validation must present a checked (authorized by official authority) copy of finished secondary school diploma translated into the Czech language by an authorized translator. Then, there must be presented a list of all passed subjects from all school years (semesters) called ‘subject plan’. This plan must contain all subjects and numbers of lessons assigned to each subject. It has to be authorized by official authority and translated too.
Differences among countries:
- applicants from countries that signed the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty do not need any additional verifications (except the basic rules mentioned above) E.g. Belarus, Belgium, France, Italy, Croatia, Cyprus, Russia, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, and others)
- applicants from countries that did not sign the above mentioned mutual agreement with the Czech Rep. but joined the Haag Convention must get one more stamp called ‘apostilla’. The stamp is given by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or at a special office assigned by the applicant’s country (most other European countries including the UK, and the USA, Israel, Japan, Australia, Sweden, India).
- applicants from all other countries must get the so-called ‘super-legalization’ of their diploma. It means that they have to obtain a stamp from their foreign ministry of foreign affairs and also from the Czech embassy in their country (Pakistan, Bangladesh, China).
Validation of a foreign diploma is not an easy process. Therefore we advise you to contact the person responsible for diploma validation at the regional authority (Krajsky urad). It is highly recommended to start the validation process at least 6 weeks prior to the term of handing in of the validated diploma to your college. There needs to be enough time to fulfill all the requirements.
Contact person for Southern Moravia region – Brno city
Ing. Bc. Dagmar Kostrhůnová, department of education ‘Krajský úřad Jihomoravského kraje’ Address: Cejl 73, 2nd floor, door number 226,
Working hours:
MO 8.00-17.00, TU 8.00 – 16.00, WE 11.00- 17.00, TH 11.00 – 16.00, FR 11.00 – 14.00
Please make an appointment!