Documents not to be subject to recognition

DOCUMENTS not to be REQUIREd A RECOGNITION PROCEDURE IN UKRAINE 

Documents on the education of citizens of the former USSR issued before May 15, 1992 (based on the Agreement on Cooperation in the field of Education (Tashkent, 1992)). The member states of the agreement are: Azerbaijan Republic, Republic of Belarus, Republic of Armenia, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Republic of Uzbekistan.

REASONS FOR DISCLAIMER

A decision to refuse recognition of a submitted document shall be taken by the competent authority in case of:

1. documents issued by those educational institutions that are not officially recognized in the education system of the state in which they operate;
2. documents issued by branches of educational institutions, if such branches are not officially recognized in the education system of the state where they carry out educational activities of this branch, in case it is according to law of foreign state;
3. documents do not include information on getting higher education, professional specialization or occupational retraining as well as the periods of study with rendering academic and/or professional rights (continuing education and / or graduate employability);
4. documents are illegally issued by an educational institution of another state;
5. documents are not authentic;
6. documents are issued according to the results of training for a period less than one academic year of study;
7. documents are issued based on the learning outcomes but the total amount of educational loans is less than 30 loans from  the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) (or less than equivalent number of academic hours);
8. documents are not up to stated standard of processing academic credentials, if and to the extent, there is the  acceptable standard in the state where  such educational institutions function;
9. documents are issued based on the learning outcomes after educational program, which is not  corresponded any stage of higher education, professional specialization or direction of education (specialty, qualification) in the education system in Ukraine;
10. documents are not recognized in the state to which the educational institution belongs;
11. documents do not contain complete information on the contents of the curriculum and in such cases it is impossible to estimate the equivalence of the higher education, professional specialization or qualification given in such the documents to the education system of Ukraine;
12. an education document was obtained on the basis of a non-authentic document on the previous education;
13. an education document was obtained on the basis of a document on prior education that did not provide the holder with the relevant academic rights (unless otherwise provided by the law of the country of origin of the education document