Document Authentication
If you require a degree
authentication of your U. S. academic credential, you
may use AMIDEAST’s Degree Authentication Service
to request an official transcript or an official letter
of degree conferral from the accredited institution
that you attended. This process involves the following
steps:
- Complete the release
form and send it to Advising and Testing Services.
- A separate release form is required for each
institution that you have attended.
- Release forms must be signed by you yourself—they
cannot be signed by someone else on your behalf.
- Include your student number. If you had a Social
Security number, your student number may possibly
be the same.
- Be sure to indicate the exact campus and city
of the college or university you attended.
- Indicate to which AMIDEAST office the official
documents should be sent.
- Pay processing fee to AMIDEAST.
- The fee is $50 per document per institution.
Documents processed generally include transcripts
and/or letters confirming degree completion. Please
contact us if you need something different.
- Fees are payable by Visa, MasterCard, Diner’s
Club, American Express, or a money order or check
drawn on a U.S. bank.
- Rush service is available for an additional
$50. “Rush” means that the release form
is faxed or overnight mailed to the university
rather than being sent by regular mail, then faxed
to your designated recipient.
- Canadian documents require an additional
fee of $50. We do not authenticate degrees
from countries other than the United States and
Canada.
- Physicians requiring an official letter from
the American Medical Association, American Association
of Pediatrics, etc., must pay an additional
$50. Other professional credentials may also
require an added processing fee.
- Contact the AMIDEAST office to which the documents
are to be sent after six weeks to learn if your documents
have arrived.
- No specific time for receipt can be guaranteed.
- Orders are processed on the same day that the
transcript release form is received at AMIDEAST
Washington. Washington staff will follow up with
the university if documents are not received within
one month (one week in the case of rush requests).
- The average turn around time is six weeks (two
weeks in the case of rush requests).
- Because of the high volume of requests processed,
AMIDEAST cannot generally provide individual notification
of document receipt. Please contact the office
where you have asked that documents be couriered.
- Arrange to pick up documents.
- AMIDEAST will hold documents until you or a
person representing you picks them up.
- You will receive the documents as well as a
stamped letter attesting to document authenticity.
AMIDEAST makes a copy of all documents before
returning them. These copies may be accessed by
the appropriate agencies should any concerns as
to their legitimacy aris
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