{"id":4023,"date":"2026-08-07T14:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consdetroit.esteri.it\/?page_id=4023"},"modified":"2026-10-21T11:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T15:41:31","slug":"authentication-of-diploma-and-transcripts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/consdetroit.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-straniero\/student-office\/recognition-of-american-educational-credentials-in-italy\/authentication-of-diploma-and-transcripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Authentication of Diploma and Transcripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Original Diplomas and official Transcripts issued by the educational institution can be sent by mail and do NOT require notarization<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas<\/p>\n<p>Copies must be signed by a school official and notarized before a Notary Public in order to be considered Certified Copies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Certified Copies<\/strong> are also accepted electronically.<\/p>\n<p>A school official must prepare a statement for each <strong>copy<\/strong> of the document (Diploma and Transcripts) certifying the authenticity of the copy. The statement may be typed on official letterhead and then attached to the original document <u>OR<\/u> handwritten directly on the back of the original document, and should indicate that the document is in fact a true copy of the original.<\/p>\n<p>An example of acceptable wording is:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is a true copy of the original Diploma\/Transcript issued to [Student Name] by [Name of School].\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[Name of School Official]<br \/>\n[Tile of School Official]<br \/>\n[Signature of School Official]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The school official must sign the above certification statement in the presence of a Notary Public, who will also affix their own <em>Jurat Statement<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Notary Public does not certify the educational document itself. Rather, the Notary Public is there to authenticate the signature of the school official.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Consulate reserves the right to request additional documents to support the validity of a Diploma and relative transcripts<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Original Diplomas and official Transcripts issued by the educational institution can be sent by mail and do NOT require notarization. Whereas Copies must be signed by a school official and notarized before a Notary Public in order to be considered Certified Copies Certified Copies are also accepted electronically. A school official must prepare a statement [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":1849,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4023","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consdetroit.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consdetroit.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consdetroit.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consdetroit.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consdetroit.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/consdetroit.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4240,"href":"https:\/\/consdetroit.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4023\/revisions\/4240"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consdetroit.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consdetroit.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}