Legalisation and translation

 

Depending on the country of issuance, your documents may need legalisation. If legalisation requirements exist for the country in which your documents were issued (see table below), your documents must already be legalised accordingly at the time of applying. The legalisation must be placed on the original documents. 

The special university entrance qualification does not need to be legalised.

Full legalisation

If you need a full legalisation for your documents, contact the Ministry of Education and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (resp. in some countries Ministry of Justice) in the country your documents were issued in for validations. When you got this validations you have to contact the the Austrian representation (embassy or consulate) responsible for the issuing country for an additional validation.

Applicants from China (People's Republic) have to additionally present a certificate by the Academic Evaluation Centre (Akademische Prüfungsstelle - APS) of the German embassy in Peking.

Translation

All for the application process necessary documents have to be translated (after the legalisation), if they are not issued in German or English. This translation has to be done by a court sworn translator after the documents were legalised, as the legalisation has to be translated as well.