Graduate Student Information

Graduate Department

Degree Authentication

  • If you would like our office to authenticate your children’s grade school report cards, please send our office the following:

    • Report card/grade report for each child: This needs to be sent directly from the child’s school to our office/your advisor. It can be sent via regular mail or email.
    • List every child for whom this will be done and the school they are attending as well as grade level.
    • Each child’s passport as well as Civil ID needs to be sent to our office/your advisor.

    If we will be mailing the authenticated report cards/grade reports to your home address in the U.S., please reconfirm the address. If we will be mailing the authenticated report cards/grade reports to you in Kuwait, please provide our office with a pre-paid FedEx label with the address noted on there.

  • Congratulations on completing your residency or fellowship program! In order to get your certificate(s) of completion authenticated, you will need to create an authentication request through the Ministry of Higher Education’s Dayrah website. Here you will need to upload all required documents into their system and make sure your request is assigned to the LA Office. You or a family member must visit floor M3 of the Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education to sign a release form in order for our office to receive and process your request.

    While you are working on uploading your documents to MOHE’s Dayrah website, please ask your university to send our office the following:


    • Two official sealed transcripts (or electronic transcripts) from all institutions attended which counted towards your degree program. Must be mailed or emailed directly from the school to your advisor.
    • Verification of Non-Traditional Courses Form {add hyperlink here}: This form will need to be completed by the Registrar’s Office or Student Records Office and sent directly to your advisor.

    In addition to the above, our office will need to receive the following documents directly from your university:

    • Verification letter from the university for the Fellowship and/or Specialty Program of Study obtained indicating dates of residency
    • Certificate of Completion from the university for the Fellowship and/or Specialty Program of Study
    • Verification letter from the certifying Board of the Fellow’s membership and status
    • Certificate of Diplomate Status from the certifying Board

    You will need to work with the Director of the Graduate Department on ensuring that all required documents are both uploaded to the Ministry’s Equivalency System as well as sent to our office so that we may authenticate your Fellowship or Residency Certificate in a timely manner.