Certifications of PhD status and achievement
- PhDs and PhD candidates can make use of certificates and self-certification to attest their status.
- A self-certification can be used in order to give proof of personal and professional status before the Italian Public Administrations and Italian public services self-certifications must be used. Please note that this general provision does not apply to the requests for the permit of stay (or its renewal) to be submitted to the Questura.
- A certificate can be used to give proof of personal and professional status before public and private legal persons both in Italy and abroad as well as before Italian Embassies and Consulates in foreign Countries;
must be used to give proof of the personal and professional status before the Questura, with a view to ask for the permit of stay or its renewal.
- Certificates to be submitted to the Territorial Office of the Government (Prefettura), with a view to have the PhD diploma legalized and officially translated, require the registered signature.
- As a rule, a duty stamp of Euros 16,00 must be affixed on each certificate. The duty stamp is not required only if the certificate is issued for the following purposes: scholarship applications; visa applications to be submitted to the Italian consular authorities abroad; permit of stay applications and requests for its renewal.
- You can log in on Studenti Online at any time with your ID number as user and password to download certificates and self-certification attesting: your enrollment in a PhD program; your admission to the final exam; the awarding of the PhD degree; proofs of payment of tuition fees for each academic year to be used for tax purposes.
- In order to receive certificates different than those available on Studenti Online, a request must be sent to the PhD Office, together with both the scanned copy of a valid ID document and a duty stamp (€16).
