Bureaucracy, take me away!

Have you ever had the necessity to translate your Italian degree certificate into English and giving it a foreign validation? Does your University give you a certification service for doing this? In my case the answer is negative, and so I made myself the procedures to have my certificate valid abroad. Of course, I obtained useful information in a web Forum that helped me a lot.

You can find the topic at the following link. It was written by Silvia4788 user an year ago, but it has yet remained true.

In this artcle I summarize the procedures without any long description (for the full version, you can read the italian one). In Italy if you want to obtain a foreign validation to your Italian degree certificate (acquired before the D.M. 509/99 and D.M. 270/04 laws at the University of Padua), you have to follow the following 3 steps:

1. form a PDF module to send by certified mail, PEC (Italian certified e-mail system) or personally at the Segreteria Studenti. For each document you requested you have to buy a tax stamp of 14,62€.
2. go in the Prefettura of Padova for the Apostille stamp.
3. translate it completely and send the translator (you can't go, because you are incompatible if the certificate is yours) to any Tribunal for the oath statement of out-of-court translation. You have to buy a tax stamp of 14,62€ every 4 pages of translation (or every 100 lines of translation), plus a tax stamp of 3,54€ for the oath. Here is a fac-simile published by Rome Tribunal.

That's all folks!