Swedish Translation of Diplomas, Transcripts and Qualifications for UHR, Socialstyrelsen and Admission

UHR: bedömning of Georgian degrees for the Swedish labor market

A Georgian university degree used in Sweden for employment goes through bedömning av utländsk utbildning at the Swedish Council for Higher Education (UHR), which issues an utlåtande stating which Swedish degree the qualification corresponds to; the assessment is free, online, and widely used by employers and Arbetsförmedlingen. The application requires the diploma and betygsutdrag (transcript) in the original language with translations into Swedish or English by an authorized translator or, in practice, a professional translator, and UHR verifies the diploma with the issuing Georgian university, which can take weeks. Secondary school certificates are assessed by UHR for university admission purposes. We translate the Georgian packet in UHR's format, using the terminology Swedish universities use for the same subjects, and advise on whether Swedish or English serves you better.

Socialstyrelsen: licensing Georgian doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists

Healthcare professionals with Georgian qualifications apply to Socialstyrelsen for legitimation through the route for education outside the EU, which involves a review of the diploma, curriculum and practice, a kunskapsprov (knowledge test) in Swedish, a course in Swedish healthcare law and regulations, a period of praktisk tjänstgöring, and Swedish language proficiency at level C1. The document stage requires the apostilled diploma, the full curriculum with hours, specialization certificates, the Georgian license and proof of practice, and a certificate of good standing, translated by an auktoriserad translator - which for Georgian means our translation re-certified by an auktoriserad translator for English in Stockholm. Georgian doctors and nurses are a growing group on this route, and our medical translators, who are physicians, translate clinical subjects using the terminology of Swedish medical faculties.

Swedish university admission through universityadmissions.se

Georgian applicants to Swedish universities - Lund, Uppsala, KTH, Chalmers, Stockholm, Gothenburg and others, mostly to English-language master's programs - apply through the single national portal universityadmissions.se, uploading the diploma and transcript in the original and in translation, proof of English (IELTS or TOEFL), and for bachelor's programs the school leaving certificate with national exam results, which the portal assesses against UHR's country rules. The portal accepts certified translations with our stamp; universities require apostilled originals at enrollment for some programs; and the study permit at Migrationsverket requires the admission letter, proof of tuition payment and funds, and health insurance. Scholarships - the Swedish Institute's, universities' own - have their own document lists. We translate the full Georgian packet in one business day and coordinate with the January application deadline for autumn admission.

Swedish degrees for recognition and employment in Georgia

A Swedish degree used in Georgia - for a work permit, for a teaching, medical or engineering position, for admission to a Georgian master's or doctoral program, or for recognition at the National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement - must be apostilled by a notarius publicus and translated into Georgian and notarized in Tbilisi. We translate the examensbevis, the betygsutdrag or transcript from Ladok, the Diploma Supplement and, when recognition is sought, kursplaner. Swedish medical graduates should expect the recognition body to ask for the legitimation from Socialstyrelsen and specialistbevis; engineers for their civilingenjör or högskoleingenjör examensbevis with the Diploma Supplement explaining the titles, which we annotate for a Georgian committee.

School certificates, student letters and vocational qualifications

Swedish families in Tbilisi enroll children in international schools or Georgian public schools with betyg and skolintyg translated; Georgian families moving to Sweden need Georgian school records translated for the kommun and the school, which places the child in the right year and arranges Swedish as a second language. Students need registreringsintyg and student status letters in the other language for permits, banks and CSN where applicable. Georgian workers going to Sweden with vocational qualifications - welding, construction, driving, hospitality - need certificates translated for employers and Arbetsförmedlingen, and yrkesbevis and gymnasiebetyg from Swedish vocational programs used in Georgia are translated and notarized for Georgian employers.

Motivation letters, recommendations, CVs and timing

Georgian applicants to Swedish programs and scholarships ask us to translate or edit motivation letters and CVs to Swedish conventions - concise, plain and without the superlatives Georgian and English applications favor - and to translate recommendation letters while preserving the signature block; doctoral candidates need thesis abstracts and publication lists translated, and researchers collaborating with Swedish universities use our editors for articles. Native Swedish and English editors with academic backgrounds handle these texts.

On timing: universityadmissions.se closes in mid-January for autumn programs, UHR assessment takes two to four months including verification with the Georgian university, the Socialstyrelsen route takes years overall but the document stage months, and the apostille on a Georgian diploma can take up to five business days. Start the apostille early, since the apostilled diploma is reusable, and ask for a digital certified translation first so you can upload it while the paper originals are in process.

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