In order to issue a certificate required by the Embassy of Romania in Washington for obtaining the "No objection statement", the applicant must send the following documents to the Ministry of Education and Research:

a. application accompanied by consent regarding the processing of personal data (predefined form); the document is to be filled in and signed by the applicant (the signature may be handwritten, electronic, or digital) – Word or PDF format documents are accepted;

ATTENTION: documents that are not signed will be rejected!

b. affidavit (model document); affidavit by the applicant or a first-degree relative or an authorized person, authenticated by a public notary in Romania or at the Romanian Consulates in the U.S.A. - PDF or JPEG format documents are accepted;

c. legible copy of a valid identity document: identity card or the page with personal details from the passport (scanned document) – PDF or JPEG format documents are accepted;

*For applications submitted through ROePAS it is not necessary to submit a copy of the identity card, if the data is available in the IT system.

d. legible copy of birth and marriage certificates, if applicable – PDF or JPEG format documents are accepted,

e. copy of the page with the U.S.A. J1 visa (scanned document) – PDF or JPEG format documents are accepted.

Incomplete or non-compliant applications can be supplemented within 20 working days.

Requests can be sent:

– online, through the Single Point of Access to Public Services ROePAS – from accounts accessed via ROeID or eIDAS;

– physically, by mail, courier, or in person at the Registry of the Ministry of Education and Research at str. Spiru Haret no. 12, sector 1, Bucharest.

The final document is a certificate issued by the Ministry of Education and Research, exclusively in electronic format, within a maximum of 30 days from receiving the complete application. The certificate is valid during the academic year in which it was issued (01 September of the current year – 31 August of the following year).

The certificate is sent:

- for applications submitted online, through the Single Point of Access to Public Services ROePAS;

- for applications submitted physically, to the applicant’s email address specified in the application.