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SAINT-PHILIPPE · TN FIELD GUIDE

Which records reconcile a conflicting degree name?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

The original-language diploma and transcript, any institutional rendering of the programme name, a registrar letter confirming the credential awarded, the earlier evaluation with its scope statement, and a fresh certified translation if the older one is the source of the difference.

Build the chain back to the registrar

Arrange the records so a reader can move from the institution's own document to each later description of it. Where a programme was renamed, a short registrar letter confirming that the two names refer to the same credential often does more than another evaluation. Keep the earlier report in the file rather than discarding it, since an officer or the employer may already have seen it.

A degree can be conferred weeks or months before the registrar releases the final transcript, which leaves an applicant holding proof of graduation that no single document yet shows. A consistent identity chain helps show whose credential is being offered; it does not turn an unrelated qualification into the required one. A degree case needs a transcript; an experience case needs proof of three years of professional practice.

Before payment, get the vendor to state which documents are covered, whether the output is a translation, an evaluation, or both, whether copies are certified, and what a correction costs if a name or date is wrong.