Country Requirements
View our country-specific requirements here.
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General Information
If you attended a branch campus, online program, or an international school following the educational model of another country rather than the country where you resided at the time, we may need to review your documents to determine which country’s polices apply.
Unofficial Documents or Official Documents
Transcript Research has shifted to a new philosophy regarding official documents. We no longer require officials documents in order to conduct an evaluation; we'll leave that requirement up to your intended recipient (the university, employer, immigration office, or whomever else is going to receive your evaluation report). If the intended recipient doesn't need your evaluation to be based on official documents, then we can use your scans and do everything online.
However, if your intended recipient needs the evaluation to be based on official documents, then you WILL need to provide those. If you choose to apply with official documents, they must must our requirements for official documents.
Unofficial Documents include scans, copies, notarized documents, Apostille, student copies, and other documents that we would not normally accept for an evaluation of official documents. We still cannot accept printouts, screen shots of student records systems, or preliminary results from external examinations, since those do not represent final documents. Please make sure your scans will meet our minimum requirements on our country-specific requirements!
Depending on the country and level of study, Official Documents might mean documents sent in a sealed envelope directly from the institution (from some countries, we are unable to accept originals from applicants), attested copies provided by the applicant, digital records received directly from the institution via a secure portal, or anything in between. We have more detailed information by country if you need an evaluation of official documents on our country-specific requirements.
Changing Report Type
If you wish to change your report type from an evaluation based on unofficial documents to an evaluation based on official documents, or vice versa, please email us so that we can help you with this process. If your report is not yet complete, there will be no fee. If the report is already completed and sent, there will be a nominal fee for administrative processing.
Custom Application
If you are applying to Baylor College of Medicine Graduate School, City College of New York (CUNY), Millersville University, NYU School of Professional Studies, the University of Dallas, or US-AID, option to submit unofficial documents is not available. These institutions require an evaluation based on official documents. This is their policy, not ours.
International Baccalaureate
Transcript Research is a designated recipient in the International Baccalaureate Information System. To order at https://rrs.ibo.org/replacement_orders/index.cfm, select Request for results to Institutes of higher education > United States > Texas > Transcript Research.
International Schools
If you attended an international secondary school that followed the educational system of another country (such as a private British, French, or Indian secondary school as an example), please look up the educational requirements for that country of the educational system of your school rather than the educational system of the country where you studied.
Diploma Supplements and Europass
If you have attended a European higher education institution, we require the official diploma and diploma supplement. We may be able to accept the Europass Diploma Supplement with the official diploma if the Europass Diploma Supplement includes all of the relevant information about your individual courses, credits, and grades. Please check with us before applying if you intend to submit a Europass so we can examine a scan of your documents to ensure they meet our needs. We cannot accept student printouts, scans, or photocopies of the Europass or Diploma Supplement as official documents. We might be able to accept securely signed PDFs, but please check with us before applying.
General Education Diploma (GED)
The General Education Diploma (GED) is a US high school diploma equivalency examination that is offered at testing centers in over 80 countries around the world through official test centers. Transcript Research does not evaluate the GED since it is a US high school diploma equivalency examination. However, if you have earned the North American GED and still want your international credentials to be evaluated, please let us know.
Secondary and Upper Secondary Leaving Exams & Results Slips
We are unable to accept a Results Slip as official unless we can confirm that your formal secondary certificate has not yet been issued (generally, less than 12 months since examination date).
Licensing Qualifications
If you are have earned a teaching license, medical license, nursing certificate, or other professional qualification separate from your academic records, please provide it as well.
Digital Records
We are happy to accept official digital records from verifiable sources for official document. Documents may be sent electronically by fax or email from the institution that issued the credential. For electronic records, we must be able confirm that the sender is the appropriate authority at the institution that issues educational records, and we must be able to confirm the email address or other contact information.
If we are not able to verify that the email address sending us the documents is authorized to issue the records (controller of exams, registrar, records office, etc) for that institution, we will not be able to accept the electronic records and will require alternative official documents as specified in the country-specific requirements. If we cannot verify the email address is a valid email address for that institution, we cannot accept it. We cannot accept digital documents from gmail.com, yahoo.com, 163.com, 123.com, sina.com, qq.com, yandex.com, hanmail.com, live.com, mail.ru, rediff.com, and other general email providers unless that specific email address is on the school’s official website or some other official source.
Qualification Check
Instead of mailing your documents for an evaluation of official documents, you may be able to pay to have your post-secondary transcripts and degree (if you graduated) verified by Qualification Check. They verify educational records at 40,000+ education institutions in over 190 countries in approx 5-10 days. Register for free at https://transcriptresearchapplications.qualificationcheck.com/#/login/register?atid=9 to see if they can verify your post-secondary documents before you apply. Each credential must be verified separately, even from the same institution. If you use Qualification Check, you will need to upload a PDF of both your transcripts and any degrees or diplomas you earned. Qualification Check is a separate company with separate fees, so you have to apply to them AND apply to Transcript Research in for us to evaluate documents they verify. You MUST use the Transcript Research portal for QC, or we will be unable to accept the verification since their requirements are different from our policies.
Verification
If you would rather pay a verification fee to have your documents verified, please contact us at info@transcriptresearch.com before you apply so we can determine if the verification for your institution(s) is available for the time period you studied BEFORE YOU APPLY for paid verification. We cannot guarantee that verification is an option.
For those credentials that require a verification fee, a separate fee will be required for each credential and each institution. The verification fee varies, depending on the fee required by the institution. Contact us before applying if you want this option. Verification fees generally cost $20 to $60, but it may be higher or lower, depending on the institutional fees of the school or exam authority of your particular country and time period. This service may take several weeks or longer so this option is recommended only if official documents are not available and you need an evaluation of official documents.
For a small number of countries, however, we can only evaluate documents that have been verified and that require a verification fee. Please see the country specifics.