Applications are reviewed within 20 working days. If all of the required documents have been submitted and our office has sufficient information, our decision is also issued within 20 working days. If the provided information is insufficient, you will be notified about this through EPE and the processing of your application will be suspended until the required documents are received. If the requested documents are not received within 3 months, the processing of the application will be terminated.

The obligation to submit all of the documents necessary for recognition rests with the applicant.

Your application will also not be processed if:

• we do not receive any additional documents we have requested after reviewing your application for 3 (three) months;
• in cases that original documents must be submitted they are not received within 3 (three) months;
• the submitted documents are suspected to be fraudulent. In all of such cases the documents are forwarded to the relevant authorities (the police) for investigation;
• in other cases as covered under relevant legislation (e.g. if SKVC is not authorized to perform recognition of such qualifications).

For more information, please refer to Criteria and Procedure.