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Spain Resolves More Foreign Degree Requests Than It Receives and Debuts Valida-TE Portal

A dedicated national office is set to open by year-end to streamline credential approvals through bilateral pacts with Latin American partners

Protestas en Barcelona por el atasco en homologaciones (archivo)
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Overview

  • In the first half of 2025, the ministry resolved 32,569 requests while receiving 24,346, marking the first time resolutions exceeded submissions.
  • Valida-TE portal, Spain’s first dedicated foreign degree recognition platform, launched to provide digital transparency and end-to-end tracking.
  • A National Office for Academic and Professional Recognition of Foreign University Degrees is slated to begin operations by year-end to centralize and expedite homologations.
  • The ministry is negotiating bilateral recognition agreements with Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru to facilitate cross-border credential approvals.
  • Strategic measures under a four-pillar modernization roadmap have tripled medical homologations to nearly 9,900 and lifted nursing approvals from 95 in 2017 to over 1,200.