THE RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS - HIGHER EDUCATION

SUBMISSION OF THE APPLICATION FORM FOR THE RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS 

Legal basis: 

•    The Lisbon Recognition Convention

•    Law on the Recognition of Foreign Educational Credentials and Qualifications Equivalence

•    Rulebook on content of the application form and mandatory documentation in the recognition procedure 

Procedure of the recognition of foreign educational credentials comprises the following steps: 

1.    COMPLETING THE APPLICATION FORM 

2.    SUBMITTING THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTS, ACCOMPANIED BY THE PROPERLY COMPLETED APPLICATION FORM 

3.    COLLECTING IN-PERSON THE DECISION ON THE RECOGNITION OF A FOREIGN EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIAL

Explanation:

•    An interested party first completes the application for the recognition of a credential on the prescribed form (referred to in point 1), and then he/she submits the required documentation (referred to in point 2);

•    If the submitted documentation is incomplete, the applicant will be duly informed about the need for submitting the missing documents. If the applicant fails to provide the missing documents within the set deadline, the application will be rejected, in compliance with the Article 60 paragraph 3 of the Law on Administrative Procedure.

•    Upon completion of the procedure, the applicant will be contacted and asked to take the Decision on the Recognition. 

Note:

•    Educational credentials issued in the republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) are not subject to the recognition procedure if these were obtained by prior to the day of the international recognition of the abovementioned republics.  

•    Educational credentials obtained in the Republic of Serbia before 25 January 2008 are not subject to the recognition procedure. 

•    The submitted documentation shall not be returned to the applicant. 

•    Deadlines for keeping the records of the documents of the Ministry are determined by the List of registry materials categories, in accordance with the Law on Archival Material, and in compliance with the abovementioned, the documentation referring to the recognition of a foreign educational credentials is kept for five years from the day the Decision on the recognition was issued. 

•    Decision on the recognition and the clause written on the back of a foreign educational credential have the status of a public document and, for this reeason, we recommend that you copy the Decision and the clause, have these copies verified by the notary public, a court or municipality, and submit them to the employer while keeping the original for yourself. 

•    In case an applicant wants to submit applications for different level of studies, he/she will be required to fill in separate application form for every level of study, submit the necessary documentation and pay a tax for each level. 

1. COMPLETING THE APPLICATION FORM 

The applicant shall fill in the application for the recognition of a foreign educational credential on the prescribed form by inserting the data requested in the application and while assuming responsibility for the accuracy thereof.  

2. SUBMISSION OF THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION ACCOMPANIED BY PROPERLY COMPLETED APPLICATION FORM 

Application for the recognition of a foreign educational credential is submitted by the document holder in person, his/her parent or guardian, or any other person authorized by the document holder (only with the authorization provided by competent authority). 

The following documentation shall be submitted, together with the application for the recognition of foreign educational credential of the completed higher education: 

    For educational credentials obtained in the Republic of Serbia, Republic of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina: 

•    Three certified copies of a Diploma or Certificate of graduation, in A4 format 

•    One copy of Transcript of Records or Diploma supplement (no need to certify it) 

•    Recepit of the payment of administrative tax amounting to 100,00 EUR.

    For educational credentials obtained in other countries: 

•    One copy of a credential in the original language and three copies of its translation done by a certified court interpreter in Montenegro, iin A4 format (credentials obtained in other countries) 

•    Three copies of the translation of the Diploma or Certificate of graduation done by a certified court interpreter (A4 format);

•    One copy of the translation of the Transcript of records or Diploma supplement, certified by a court interpreter in Montenegro;

•    Copy of a diploma (in the original language)

•    Copy of the Trancript of records or Diplma supplement (in the original language)

•    Receipt of the payment of administrative tax amounting to 100,00 EUR.

       The administrative tax should be paid to the account number: 

832-3161080-65; 

Purpose of payment: recognition of a foreign educational credential 

Note

•    If the education credential which the application for recognition is submitted for is obtained on the basis of the transcript of an educational credential, it is necessary to also submit a copy of the acquired and/or initiated education or a part of the education in Montenegro. 

•    For the recognition of doctoral studies (PhD) it is necessary to submit the document that contains the title of the PhD dissertation in the original language. 

3. COLLECTING IN-PERSON THE DECISION ON THE RECOGNITION OF A FOREIGN EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIAL 

Upon the completion of the recognition procedure, the applicant will be contacted and asked to pick up his/her Decision on the Recognition. Decision on the recognition of a foreign educational credential can be collected by the document holder, his/her parent or guardian or any other person authorized by the applicant (with the authorization provided by the competent authority) within 30 days every working day from from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

CERTIFICATION AND TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENTS:

•    Translation of foreign documents is done by a court interpereter in Montenegro, certified for the foreign language in which the education credential was issued. 

•    Copies of educational credentials translated by a court interpreter do not need to be certified by notary public since a court interpreter had already done so by his/her seal. 

•    List of certified court interpereters can be found on the Internet page of the Ministry of Justice of Montenegro https://www.gov.me/mpa/tumaci

•    Copies of public documents in Montenegro shall be verified/certified in a court, in the municipality or in the notary public office. 

•    List of notary public offices in Montenegro can be found on the following link https://notarskakomora.me/notari/

Application form - higher education (www.gov.me)

Instructions on the submission of the application form - higher education