Federal institutes can revalidate and recognize foreign diplomas

The Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology (IFs) became part of the list of institutions qualified to conduct the processes of revalidation and recognition of foreign diplomas, with the same prerogatives attributed to public universities. The change is in Ordinance No. 1051/2023 of the Ministry of Education. According to the MEC, it was necessary to expand the range of institutions in this process due to the large number of people interested in validating diplomas.

The new ordinance establishes that all revalidating institutions will have to use the Carolina Bori Platform and disclose, within 60 days, counted from the publication of the ordinance, the internal rules for carrying out the referred processes. The platform, launched in 2017, is the system through which interested parties can register and send their requests for revalidation and recognition of foreign diplomas directly to qualified universities.

The Ordinance also allowed “special” public universities to analyze requests for revalidation of diplomas from refugees, undocumented migrants and those who are part of humanitarian reception programs. “Special” public universities are state or municipal institutions, which may not be free, permission given by article 242 of the Constitution to entities existing before 1988.

MEC points out that only courses that present a Preliminary Course Concept (CPC) equal to or greater than three will be able to carry out the revalidation of foreign diplomas. Graduation diplomas issued by foreign universities will be revalidated by public universities that have a course of the same level and area or equivalent, according to article 48 of the Law of Guidelines and Bases of Education (LDB).