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 filled in and signed by the applicant (the signature can be handwritten, electronic or digital) – Word or PDF 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, notarized at a public notary in Romania or at the Romanian Consulates in the USA – PDF or JPEG type documents are accepted;

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

*For requests sent via ROePAS it is not necessary to submit a copy of the identity card, if the data can be found in the system.

d. legible copy of the birth and marriage certificate, if applicable,

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

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

Requests can be submitted:

– online, via the Single Access Point for public services ROePAS – from accounts accessed via ROeID or eIDAS;

– online, via the Single Electronic Contact Point (PCUe) – from accounts accessed via ROeID, eIDAS or ghiseul.ro (This will be replaced by ROePAS);

– physically, by mail, courier or direct submission 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 receipt of 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 is sent:

- for requests submitted online, via the Single Access Point for public services ROePAS or via the Single Electronic Contact Point (PCUe);

- for requests submitted physically, to the applicant's email address specified in the application.