For the issuance of a certificate required by the Romanian Embassy in Washington for obtaining a "No objection statement", the petitioner must submit the following documents to the Ministry of Education and Research:

a. request accompanied by consent for the processing of personal data (predefined form); the document must be completed and signed by the petitioner (the signature may be handwritten, electronic, or digital) – Word or PDF documents are accepted;

ATTENTION: documents that are not signed will be rejected!

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

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

*For requests submitted via ROePAS, you are not required to submit a copy of the identity card, if the data is available in the computer system.

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

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

Incomplete or non-compliant requests can be completed within 20 working days.

Requests can be sent:

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

– physically, by mail, courier, or direct submission to the Registration Office of the Ministry of Education and Research at 12 Spiru Haret Street, 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 in the academic year in which it was issued (01 September of the current year – 31 August of the following year).

The certificate will be sent:

- for requests submitted online, via the Single Access Point for Public Services ROePAS;

- for requests submitted physically, to the email address of the petitioner specified in the request.