Verification of Results and Certified True Copy of Certificate: What’s the Difference, Their Uses, and How Do they Get Processed in OAU and UI?
Everyone
knows exactly what document they want from their school—which is good, but
sometimes, an excessive level of this assurance often causes a lot of problems
for agents like us working on academic documents for alumni of Nigerian schools;
it gets even more tedious when we encounter the client who just wants to stick
to their understanding of what their travel agent or PR told them, or what they
think the abroad institution they are applying to is asking them to provide.
But then, it is a fact that people like us who have been doing the same thing
for different people at different levels over a couple of years are likely to
have a big well of experiences from which they could give a better or more
information from, and while some clients make it easy for us to enlighten them,
some just get really dogmatic and become impossible to educate—which, by the
way, often leads them to having to spend more or having to wait for longer time
for them to have what they want. An instance of this is when you inform a
client who studied English Language as a course in school that they do not need
to write any international English test like IELTS, GRE or TOEFL if they are
seeking admission to an English-speaking country/school that requires that they
have the good knowledge of English Language but then they insist that their
abroad school they are seeking admission to requires every applicant to write
an international English test. It’s also the same case as when you tell a
person whose qualification they have at hand was taught in English Language
that they do not need to write an international English test, they only need to
get a Proof of Proficiency in English Language from their school and they would
have a waiver on any international English test, but then, the client who know
too much just wants to stick to what they know. As this drama happens with
international English test and Proof of Proficiency in English Language, so
does it with verification of results and certified true copy of a certificate?
Let
me make this clear in one sentence that verification of results is not the same
as certified true copy of certificate, and they do not do the same thing when
it comes to seeking employment, admission or scholarship; while verification of
results means that an institution has sent your academic transcripts to your
school you got the qualification from, asking your school to verify that your
transcripts were indeed sent by them, and that your results in the transcripts
are correct, a certified true copy of your certificate would mean that an
institution or a body is asking your school to confirm the genuineness of your
certificate. Using the standard and modus operandi of OAU and UI, Verification
of results is initiated by your requesting institution by sending a request for
verification to your school, you pay some money to your school, do some leg
works (or have someone do these for you), and your school replies to the
request by verifying that your transcripts are genuine and the results in them
are correct. Using the standard and modus operandi of OAU and UI, a certified
true copy of your certificate is produced by your school’s Exams and Records
stamping and signing a coloured copy of your certificate and sending it to the
requesting body; this would mean to the requesting body that your school has
confirmed to them that your certificate is genuine.
This
information should be able to tell already that these two documents are not the
same—as one is about your transcripts and the other about your certificate, and
they don’t do the same thing as a lot of clients confuse their uses with each
other. So when we have a client who—by what they are describing—sounds like
what they need is a certified true copy of their certificate but they are
insisting that what they need is verification of results, or when we have a
client who—by what they are describing—sounds like what they need is a
verification of their transcripts but they are insisting that what they need is
a certified true copy, what we would resort to is the “do you” strategy; we
help them get what they say they want and wait for when their requesting institution
would send them back to their school to collect the right document required,
and when they come back to us now sober and ready to listen, we let them know
we been knew they were wrong. The purpose of this publication is not only to
enlighten the readers on the differences between verification of results and a certified
true copy, and the differences in the processes of producing these documents,
but also to let potential clients needing these documents know that they must be
flexible enough to want to listen to the agents they are contacting to help
them process these documents from their schools, as these agents often know
better and more than the information they may have gotten from anyone else. We
came in peace, and only to enlighten and serve if you need services relating to
these.
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