Diploma Nostrification in Košice: Full Document Preparation

What nostrification is and when you need it

The procedure’s official name is “uznanie dokladu o vzdelaní zo zahraničia”: a Slovak authority reviews your foreign diploma, school certificate or supplement and decides whether it corresponds to Slovak education. Without that decision you cannot enter a regulated profession – healthcare, education, technical fields – and in most cases cannot continue your studies; many employers ask for it too.

The goal has to be settled first, not the document: an application for academic recognition and one for recognition of a professional qualification follow different routes with different attachments. We tell you which route matches your situation before you translate anything.

Košice as a university city: TUKE and UPJŠ

Košice is among the strongest university centres in the east and has a substantial international student community. The Technical University of Košice reports 6,551 international students out of 13,500 in total, with students from Ukraine the most numerous among them; the UPJŠ Medical Faculty states on its own site that roughly half of its students come from abroad, from more than 50 countries of the world.

Behind every such enrolment is a foreign education document that has to be recognised before admission or professional work. For applicants we therefore most often prepare the school-leaving certificate, the diploma with its supplement and the birth certificate – sworn-translated and, where the authority requires it, in the right order with an apostille.

SUDV decides on recognition – centrally, not in Košice

The central body for recognising foreign education documents is the Centre for Recognition of Diplomas (SUDV) – part of the Slovak Ministry of Education with nationwide competence, acting under Act No. 422/2015 Coll., as amended. For Košice this means one important thing: there is no separate “Košice” procedure; the application is assessed centrally exactly as anywhere in Slovakia.

Only the document preparation is local – and that is exactly what we can take off your hands. Based on your document and goal (study, work, a specific employer) we verify where the application belongs and what to attach, and prepare the paperwork right away.

What documents to prepare (and in what order)

You attach the diploma or certificate with its subject-by-subject supplement and a sworn Slovak translation by a registered translator. The law does not require an apostille for every recognition; but where the authority requires one for your document, the apostille comes first and the translation second, because the translation is made from the apostilled original and must include the apostille clause.

The name is the second critical detail: your passport, diploma and translation must all spell it identically. Even a small transliteration mismatch – one letter, one diacritic – is among the most common reasons SUDV returns an application, stretching the proceeding by extra weeks.

Ukrainian diplomas: an apostille only if the authority requires it

Slovak Act No. 422/2015 Coll. does not list an apostille on a Ukrainian diploma among the application attachments: for recognition to continue your studies it exempts the states of the European Higher Education Area, which Ukraine belongs to, and for recognition to work in a regulated profession it does not mention one at all. If an authority or employer still requires it, only the Ukrainian ministry can apostille a Ukrainian diploma – a Slovak authority has no power to issue one. With our own offices in Kharkiv and Kyiv we file for the apostille directly in Ukraine and then provide the sworn Slovak translation of the documents.

You assemble the entire nostrification package without a single trip to Ukraine and without mailing originals across the border; the finished paperwork is delivered across eastern Slovakia or electronically.

How we work

1. 1Send scans and your purposeThe diploma, supplement or certificate + what you need recognition for: study, a regulated profession or an employer.
2. 2We verify the procedure and quoteWe tell you which SUDV proceeding applies to you, what paperwork is needed and in what order – with an exact price and deadline.
3. 3Apostille (if required) and sworn translationIf the authority requires an apostille, we arrange it (Ukrainian documents directly in Ukraine), and a sworn translator translates the documents including the clauses.
4. 4Receive the complete packageApplication-ready documents delivered by post across the east or electronically – no travelling.

Prices

• Nostrification paperwork preparation by document count and proceeding type; authority fees includedindividual quote
• Apostille on a Ukrainian diploma if the authority requires it; arranged directly in Ukraine; state fee includedfrom €25
• Sworn translation of the diploma and supplement Ministry of Justice-registered translator, apostille clause included where the document has oneindividual quote

The prices above are indicative – the final amount depends on the number and type of documents. The state fee for the apostille is already inside the quoted prices. We will send an exact price quote as soon as we see scans of your documents.

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