Diploma and/or Transcript Authentication Service

Diploma and/or Transcript Authentication Service

To request for Diploma and/or Transcript Authentication Service (“Authentication Service”), please follow the steps below:

a. Complete the application (“Application”) for Authentication Service in its entirety. The Application is available through the link below. http://www.taiwanembassy.org/public/Data/681819293471.pdf

b. Bring to our office the original and a copy of your valid photo ID (e.g. driver license, passport, or naturalization certificate). We will return the original to you after verification. For Application by mail (see our address on the bottom), please attach a notarized copy of your photo ID as proof of identity. However, no notary is required if your identity is evidenced by a copy of your Republic of China Passport or Taiwan ID Card.

c. Submit the original and a copy of the Application.

d. Provide two (2) copies of the Diploma and/or Transcript (“Document”) that you wish to authenticate and one (1) letter of authorization to permit our office verifying your Document with the school. Please download the letter of authorization form through the link below. Your information such as student ID number, social security number, name and address of the school that issued the Document will be mandatory. Verification processing fee is also required by the school. Please see Note 1 for details regarding the use of letter of authorization and the verification processing fee. http://www.taiwanembassy.org/public/Data/83284582871.pdf

e. The authentication fee is Fifteen (15) United States Dollars per Document. If Document translation is necessary, it is applicants’ responsibility to prepare ahead of time. Authentication of each translated Document is Thirty (30) United States Dollars. We accept cash, money order, or cashier’s check made payable to TECO. NO PERSONAL CHECKS.

f. Applicant may assign an agent to deliver the required documents to our office. Agent must present his/her valid photo ID (e.g. driver license, passport, or naturalization certificate) along with an authorization letter from the applicant.

g. For Application by mail, please include a self-addressed return envelope with sufficient amount of postage (please go to http://www.usps.com for postage information).

Upon completion of the verification process, we will issue the authentication in two (2) business days.

Note 1: Schools named below have delegated the student records management to National Student Clearinghouse. It would be applicants’ responsibility to pay fees and request for verification through National Student Clearinghouse online. Please log onto www.studentclearinghouse.org. Please be sure to notify National Student Clearinghouse to forward the Degree Verify Certificate to our office via e-mail: verify@tecola.org. Please also provide our office with your user name, password, and Degree Verify Transaction ID. We will issue the authentication after the verification process is completed.

C.S.U. Fullerton, C.S.U.L.B., C.S.U. Northridge, National University, C.S.U. Polytechnic, C.S.U. Dominquez Hills, El Camino College, Citrus College, Grand Canyon University

For schools other than the ones stated above, our office will initiate the verification process instead. Applicants must submit a letter of authorization to our office, of which includes social security number, student ID number, and processing fee payable to the school. (See fees break-down below)

USC:$8.00 UCI:$10.00 CSUSB:$4.00 University of Arizona:$5.00**
UCLA:$6.00 UCSD:$6.00 UCSB:$15.00* see important note for UCSB and UA below

*UCSB does not accept verification request from our office. Applicant must make inquiry directly with UCSB and request result to be mailed to our office (see our address below). For UCSB’s application of verification and further information, please log onto www.registrar.ucsb.edu.

**University of Arizona requires applicants to fill out a separate application for the verification processing. Please inquire with the school.

Our address: TECO, 3731 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90010.

For your convenience, TECO forms are available through the link below.
http://www.taiwanembassy.org/US/LAX/lp.asp?ctNode=2841&CtUnit=66&BaseDSD=7&mp=52&timer=23198.38