Chinese Qualifications Verification Service

• Colour scan of original Passport Bio-page OR
• Colour scan of Notarial Birth Certificate

A photocopy of your Chinese Personal Identification Card (居民身份证).
No English translation is required.

For applicants who require Chinese Qualifications Verification for VETASSESS Skills Assessment purposes: if you hold a Bachelor Degree-level qualification or higher degree, you will need to have the following documents verified:

• Degree certificate
• Certificate of Graduation
• Academic transcript or examination results in Chinese
• Academic transcript or examination results in English translation

For applicants who require verification for an organisation other than VETASSESS, you should first consult the relevant organisation about their requirements.

Documents required:

• Degree Certificate: the original Degree Certificate and its official translation, along with CSSD Degree Verification e-reports in Chinese.
• For Chinese qualifications awarded on September 2008 and prior, apply for the verification report (中国高等教育学位认证报告) 
• For Chinese qualifications awarded after September 2008, apply for the verification report (中国高等教育学位在线验证报告)
• Certificate of Graduation: the original certificate and its official English translation.
• Academic transcript or examination record in Chinese: these must be issued and endorsed by the central student administration office or archiving office of the awarding body or the attending institution (for Self-Taught programs, it must be officially issued and endorsed by the relevant Self-Taught Examinations Committee).
• Academic transcript or examination record in English the English translation must be issued and endorsed by the central student administration office or archiving office of the awarding body or the attending institution. Alternatively, translations prepared by the registered translation service or translations included in the Notarial Certificates can be accepted.
• Academic transcript in editable PDF: select one of the Chinese academic transcript templates depending on whether the semesters appear or do not appear on the original Chinese transcript, and submit together with the academic transcript in the English template with your application. Please note, it is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure the information in the editable PDF is consistent with their academic transcripts.
  (To fill an editable PDF, your version of Adobe Reader should be no older than 2018.)
• Additional documents required (if applicable):
• If the original qualification certificate is lost, a reissued certificate (毕业证明书/学士学位证明书) is required. The reissued certificate must be issued and endorsed by the central student administration office or archiving office of the awarding body or the attending institution. Please note that for Self-Taught programs, it must be officially issued and endorsed by the relevant Self-Taught Examinations Committee.
• If the details on the original qualification document, such as the applicant’s date of birth and name, are inconsistent with any other document due to an administrative error by the awarding body, an explanation letter from the awarding body on official letterhead and stamp must be provided.

Note: Please ensure complete documentation is submitted. Any unofficially issued documents or Graduate Registration Records may be unacceptable and/or verified as ‘non-genuine’. Ensure the information, e.g. subject name, scores and credits, in the English version matches the Chinese original language as both versions will be verified. Inconsistent information in both versions may cause considerable delay or lead to a negative verification result.

Applicants who were awarded qualifications by army institutions during their service in the army are required to provide additional documents for verification. Please contact us for further information.

One recent passport-sized colour photograph is required. The photograph must be no more than six months old and of good quality (self-taken photographs are not acceptable).

A notarial certificate with English translation is required.

• Official translations issued by the awarding institution
• Certified translation prepared by a registered translation service
• Translation included in the Notarial Certificates.

You can find all our fees in the table below. 

VETASSESS works directly with the relevant educational authorities in the People's Republic of China (P.R. China) in order to verify both the authenticity and the recognition status of some qualifications and documents you submit for skills assessment purposes. Our verification service provides the ONLY source of verification outcomes for use in VETASSESS Skills Assessments

As part of the working arrangement with the Chinese government, VETASSESS requires all qualification documents awarded in P.R. China to be verified through our Chinese Qualifications Verification service. You are required to apply through VETASSESS even if you have already obtained Credential Reports from the relevant verification authorities.

For applicants who require the Chinese Qualifications Verification for VETASSESS skills assessment purposes, you only need to apply for verification of the qualification that meets the minimum requirement of your nominated occupation. However, if that qualification includes credits granted from any previous studies, the earlier qualification/s will also need to be verified together with the later or higher qualification.

If you are submitting a Professional Master Degree (被授予学位，毕业证书和成绩单的专业硕士), a Master Equivalent Degree (同等学历硕士) or a Master (Professional) (仅被授予学位和成绩单的专业硕士) qualification for CQV for subsequent VETASSESS skills assessment purposes, you must also include the underpinning Bachelor Degree for the CQV process.

If you are submitting a Professional Doctoral Degree (专业博士学位，且非8年本博连读) for CQV for subsequent VETASSESS skills assessment purposes, you must also include the underpinning Bachelor and Master Degree for the CQV process.

Please note you may use the verification reports again when you lodge a subsequent application for skilled migration purposes with the Department of Home Affairs. We suggest that you submit both the verification results and any VETASSESS result letters together with your other visa-related documents when lodging an application to the Department of Home Affairs. 

For applicants referred to us by other skills assessing authorities/ professional bodies, please ensure you have read the latest information regarding the verification process before applying to VETASSESS.

A negative or non-genuine verification result, meaning that either the qualification is not recognised by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in China, or is not recorded in MOE's or the educational institution's database, will normally mean that a qualification cannot be assessed for skills assessment purposes and, there will be an unsuccessful VETASSESS skills assessment outcome. A positive verification result can be used for skills assessment purposes but does not automatically guarantee a positive skills assessment outcome. A positive (verified) qualification from P.R. China will be assessed by our assessment guidelines in order to determine equivalence to qualifications currently listed in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF).

Most Chinese Qualification Verification applications are completed within 8-10 weeks, with a small number of cases taking longer (for instance, any qualifications awarded before 1995).

Please allow at least 8 weeks before making any status inquiries with VETASSESS. In addition, failure to submit all required documents when you apply may cause considerable delays in completing your Chinese Qualification Verification application. Your Chinese Qualification Verification cannot be completed until we receive all required documentation. Please refer to the Required Documents section of our website before submitting your application.