What is a credential evaluation?

This question is specifically about “What is a credential evaluation”, so it covers both the requirements attached to this document set and the order the steps must follow. Note who signed each certification and on what date for later reference. If the receiving body confirmed its requirements by email, keep that message with the file. After filing, follow up on the cycle the office states rather than waiting past the deadline. The terms that frame this page are credential · evaluation. The deciding factor is the receiving body's requirement, not only the format of the Thai-side document. What changes the timeline most here is whether the source documents are complete on day one. Before starting, verify the source document is still within any validity window the recipient applies, then count the number of certified sets needed before work starts, because extra sets restart the certification steps, then confirm with the receiving body whether it wants an original, a certified copy or a certified translation. When several certification layers are required, start with the slowest one. Plan the schedule with room for at least one review cycle at the receiving office. A credential evaluation is a report by an evaluation body in the destination country stating how a qualification issued in another country compares with that country's own education system. The report supports admission, professional licensing, employment or a skilled-migration application, depending on the body that will read it. Not every body wants a consular layer. Some accept only documents sent directly by the institution, some require the translation to be certified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and some go as far as the embassy. Read that body's own requirement before paying for a layer you may not need. A Thai-issued academic document used by a foreign body normally follows the same order: obtain the official document from the issuing institution, translate it in full including every seal and signature, then have the translation certified by the Legalisation Division, Department of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and where the receiving body requires it, by that country's embassy or consulate afterwards. Thailand is not a party to the Apostille Convention, so no apostille is issued on Thai documents. Cost and lead time depend on page count, target language, how many certified sets are needed and the steps the receiving evaluation body sets, so every file is quoted before work starts. Send scans of every page of your academic documents together with the requirement page from the evaluation body, via LINE @NAATI, call +66 80-557-8887 or email ilc@thainotary.co.th.

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