Translate Your Italian Degree Certificate for Australia

Who issues a degree certificate in Italy

The diploma di laurea is issued by the university, with the classification expressed out of 110 and possibly with lode, which we render literally rather than converting.

Italian civil-status records are issued by the Ufficio dello Stato Civile of the comune where the event was registered. Extracts come in three forms — estratto per riassunto, estratto per copia integrale and certificato — and only the copia integrale reproduces the full register entry with its marginal annotations.

What your certified English translation reproduces

Every certified translation we issue is a complete rendering of the source document — not a summary. For a Italian degree certificate that means:

• Award title in the original language, followed by a literal English rendering
• Field of study, faculty and the awarding institution's full legal name
• Date of conferral and the graduation or register number
• Classification, honours or grade of award where the certificate states one
• Accreditation or ministry recognition wording printed on the document
• Rector, dean or registrar signatures, embossed seals and security features

Italian names, dates and script

Italian names retain accents and apostrophes that Australian systems often strip. The codice fiscale, a sixteen-character alphanumeric identifier encoding name, date and place of birth, appears on most official documents and is reproduced exactly. Dates are day-month-year, and place names reference the comune and provincia.

Seals, stamps and legalisation

Comune seals, the signature of the officer of civil status, and an apostille from the Prefettura for documents used abroad. AIRE registration — the register of Italians resident abroad — often affects which comune holds your record, and we identify the issuing comune clearly for that reason.

How Australian agencies read this document

Assessing authorities use the award title and conferral date to establish qualification level. We keep the original title intact and give a literal English equivalent rather than asserting an Australian AQF level, which is the assessor's decision to make.

Central to skills assessments for subclass 189, 190 and 491, to employer-sponsored nomination evidence, to postgraduate admission, and to points claims for overseas qualifications.

What we check before certifying

Most delays are caused by the source document, not the translation. These are the issues we look for on Italian degree certificates and raise with you before the file is certified:

• Ordering an estratto per riassunto when the Australian agency needs the copia integrale with marginal annotations
• Records held by a comune of AIRE registration rather than the comune of birth, causing applicants to request from the wrong office
• An apostille from the Prefettura omitted from the scan
• Translating the diploma but not the transcript, when most assessors require both together
• Claiming an Australian equivalence on the translation itself instead of leaving it to the assessing body
• Older award titles from superseded education systems rendered as a modern equivalent, which misstates the qualification

Pages, pricing and turnaround

A degree certificate is usually one page at $59 and pairs naturally with the transcript. Order them together and both come back in the same certified bundle, typically within 24 hours.