Afghan Academic Records Verification Support for Registrars, Licensing Boards and Credential Evaluators

We build the verification around the record instead of the issuer. Specialists read the document in Pashto or Dari, convert its dates, test it against how that institution issued records in that year, check the institution's licence status and corroborate it, with the applicant's consent, through sources outside Afghanistan's de facto authorities. You receive a graded findings report with the evidence behind it.

In May 2026 the ministry was reported to have suspended verification for foreign universities and told public universities not to answer foreign emails. Even where a channel reopens, we do not route requests through the de facto authorities, because contact can expose applicants and their families. We corroborate through safer, consented routes instead.

Since September 2021, World Education Services has said it cannot verify Afghan academic documents. Its Gateway Program evaluates documents supplied by displaced applicants in the United States and Canada and marks those reports as not authenticated. Our findings report can sit alongside an evaluation like that and add authenticity evidence the evaluation does not include.

The Shahadatnama (شهادتنامه) is Afghanistan's Grade 12 Graduation Certificate, issued by the Ministry of Education, usually in Pashto, Dari and English. Se-Parcha (سه پارچه) is the record of marks for grades 10, 11 and 12 that accompanies it. We check that the two agree with each other, with the school calendar and with the applicant's other records.

No. A Kankor result records a university entrance-exam score and placement from the National Examination Authority. It shows that an applicant sat the exam and where they were placed, not that they completed grade 12. Completion is shown by the Grade 12 Graduation Certificate. We verify both and reconcile their names and dates.

Add 621 to the Solar Hijri year for dates from 1 Hamal to 31 December (10 or 11 Jadi), and 622 for dates from 1 January to the end of Hut. Afghan documents use the Pashto month names Wray to Kab or the Dari names Hamal to Hut, not Iranian month names, and some documents issued since 2022 also carry Lunar Hijri dates.

Recognition is your institution's or board's decision under your own rules. What we do is test documents issued after August 2021 against post-2021 issuance: new letterheads, in-country printing since March 2024, Lunar Hijri dates, madrasa degree equivalents and private universities whose licences were later suspended or revoked. Your decision is then made on evidence.

That is common, especially for women: universities have been closed to women since 20 December 2022, and some women graduates report being refused their own certificates. We assemble a documented secondary-evidence file and, where useful, run a structured academic interview in the applicant's language, the kind of assessment the Lisbon Recognition Convention asks its parties to offer refugees whose qualifications cannot be documented.

We compare every feature with genuine issuance for that institution and year: letterhead, seals, signatures, numbering, grading legend, credit totals and arithmetic. We also look for signs of editing or generation, and screen for diploma mills, which U.S. law defines as sellers of degrees requiring little or no coursework. Reports describe diplomas sold without study at some private universities, so we test whether the program, licence and study timeline are plausible.

Yes, under the right contract. U.S. colleges and universities can designate us a school official under 34 CFR 99.31(a)(1)(i)(B), provided their annual FERPA notice includes contractors as school officials; that keeps us under your direct control and bound by 99.33(a). European and UK clients engage us under GDPR Article 28 processor terms; Canadian clients under PIPEDA or provincial privacy law; Australian clients under the Australian Privacy Principles.

No. We assess authenticity and consistency and document the evidence. Credential evaluators determine comparability, and your institution or board makes the decision. Our findings report is built to sit inside a NACES or AICE member's evaluation, an ENIC-NARIC statement of comparability or a licensing board's file.

No. Afghanistan is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention, so documents are legalised through the issuing ministry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, followed by a consular step. Legalisation confirms stamps and signatures, not the content of a record, which is why stamped documents still need verification.

Document review typically takes 5 to 7 business days per file. Corroboration usually adds 10 to 20 business days depending on the sources involved, and interviews are scheduled with the applicant. Rush review and cohort terms are available for admissions cycles and scholarship programs.