For graduates, newcomers and regulated professionals in Ireland
Recognition here is free. A record of what you handed over does not exist unless you make one.
NARIC Ireland compares foreign qualifications at no cost, and employers and regulators still ask for original documents on their own terms. In 2026 ProofSnap seals your degree, transcript and the verification screen behind them into one certified package, delivered in 24 hours and verifiable offline.
Degree and transcript sealed exactly as you send them
Verification screens captured with network evidence
Qualified eIDAS timestamp and Bitcoin anchor
A record that outlasts the job, the move and the registration
recognition database / comparability
Qualification recognition
The gap this leaves
A free statement tells an employer what your qualification compares to. It says nothing about the documents you submitted, when you submitted them or whether they have changed since.
Written by Radim Motycka, founder and lead engineer of ProofSnap, who builds the hashing, signing and timestamping pipeline described on this page.
How do you prove a foreign degree to an Irish employer or regulator?
Ireland publishes comparability statements free through NARIC Ireland, the recognition database hosted by Quality and Qualifications Ireland, and regulators run their own document routes on top. Nothing in that leaves you with a record of what you submitted. ProofSnap seals your degree, transcript and verification screen into one certified package in 2026, in 24 hours for $59.99.
How qualification recognition works in Ireland
Four things that shape what you can prove, and when.
Comparability is free where your award is listed
The recognition database lists over 2,000 qualifications from more than 170 countries, and a comparability statement can be downloaded at no cost when your award is listed. Checked September 2026.
Regulators run their own routes
Medical, nursing, teaching and other regulated professions assess qualifications through their own processes and document requirements, which sit on top of any comparability statement.
Employers verify at source
Irish employers and screening services contact the awarding institution, and a foreign qualification usually means more correspondence, more waiting and more copies of everything you hold.
Nobody hands you a sealed copy
Free recognition and employer checks both produce answers for someone else. Nobody hands you a dated, sealed copy of what you sent.
How it works
One payment, one upload, one finished package, ready before a registration or a job offer becomes urgent.
Pay and upload
Pay the one-time fee of $59.99, about €52. A secure upload page opens straight after payment for your degree, transcript and supporting letters.
Send anything verifiable online
A university verification page, a comparability statement you downloaded, a regulator register entry or a digital credential viewer. Send the link while the page still loads.
We capture and seal
We capture those screens with their HTML and network evidence, hash every file, sign the manifest, add a qualified eIDAS timestamp and anchor it in Bitcoin.
You get the package
Within 24 hours you receive one signed ZIP with your documents in a files/ folder and the sealing files beside it.
A comparability statement and a sealed package answer different questions. Download the first, seal the second, and keep them together.
What is inside the package
One ZIP. Twelve files do the sealing, and everything you send sits in files/.
files/diploma.pdfyour diploma, byte for byte
files/transcript.pdfyour transcript, unchanged
files/good_standing_letter.pdfand anything else you send, under its own name
files/web_verification_capture.zipthe official verification page, sealed: screenshot, HTML, DNS, TLS, headers, UTC time
provenance_certificate.pdfthe human-readable report
chain_of_custody.jsonevery step, in order
forensic_log.jsontamper-evident hash chain
manifest.jsonSHA-256 of every file
manifest.sigRSA signature over the manifest
publickey.pemthe key needed to check that signature
manifest.json.tsreIDAS qualified timestamp
eidas_validation.jsondata to validate it years later
manifest.json.otsBitcoin anchor
verification/verify.shoffline check on macOS and Linux
verification/verify.ps1the same check on Windows
verification/VERIFICATION_GUIDE.txthow to run it, in plain language
The package carries both timestamps. Everything you send sits in files/, under its own name, so a package with more documents simply contains more files.
The capture of the official screen travels as its own sealed package inside the ZIP, with its own manifest and chain of custody. Two independent layers, no clashing file names, and each layer can be checked on its own.
Degree, transcript and supporting letters preserved unchanged
Screenshots and HTML of the verification screens you pointed us at
DNS, TLS and HTTP headers recorded at the moment of capture
A SHA-256 manifest signed with a per-package RSA key
A qualified timestamp, which under Article 41(2) of the eIDAS Regulation enjoys the presumption of the accuracy of the date and time it indicates and of the integrity of the data it is bound to
A Bitcoin OpenTimestamps anchor, independent of us
Verification scripts for Windows, macOS and Linux that check the hashes, the signature and the timestamp offline
1Manifest signature valid
2All file hashes match
3Qualified timestamp valid, 2026-09-13 10:22 UTC
4Bitcoin anchor present, deep check with the ots client
Ireland is in the European Union, so that presumption applies here directly. The cryptography can be checked by anyone in any event.
What this is, stated plainly
Four things the package proves, each of them checkable by the person you send it to.
That your documents existed in exactly this form no later than the timestamp
That the verification page, as it was served to the capture from this domain, showed this content on this date
That nothing in the package has changed since it was sealed
That an employer, a regulator or a solicitor can verify it offline, with no account
What proving a qualification costs in Ireland in 2026
Recognition being free is good news. The only record of your side of the process is still the one you make.
| Route | Published price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Comparability statement from the national database | free | Tells an employer what your qualification compares to, where your award is listed. |
| Regulator assessment for a regulated profession | set by the regulator | Registration routes for medicine, nursing, teaching and similar professions. |
| Certified or notarised copies | set by the notary | A notarised paper copy, for use where originals are not accepted. |
| Apostille for use abroad | set by the Department of Foreign Affairs | Legalisation for cross-border use, on paper. |
| ProofSnap certified package | $59.99, about €52 | Your documents and the verification screen, sealed, dated and verifiable offline by anyone. |
Prices are the providers' published figures, checked in September 2026. Each route answers a different question. This one answers the question about your own documents: what you hold, unchanged, proved as of a date you can point to.
Irish degree documents certification
Delivered within 24 hours of receiving your files, one flat fee, no subscription
$59.99, about €52 at current rates.
- Every document you send, preserved byte for byte inside the package
- A capture of the official verification screen or register record, when your credential has one
- SHA-256 for every file and an RSA-signed manifest
- A qualified eIDAS timestamp and a Bitcoin OpenTimestamps anchor
- A chain of custody document recording every step, and the evidence report as a readable PDF
- Verification scripts that check the hashes, the signature and the timestamp offline, so the recipient never has to call us
- An email delivery note when the package is ready
The upload page opens as soon as payment goes through. Questions first? Write to support@getproofsnap.com.
Irish recognition, answered
The extension
Would you rather do it yourself?
The extension does the same job on your own machine: certify your documents locally and capture the verification screens yourself.
The side panel holds the File Certifier, the evidence language and the qualified timestamp toggle.
File Certification in the extension
Drop your diploma, transcript and any completion letters into the panel and seal them in one package: SHA-256 for every file, a signed manifest, a chain of custody document and a report PDF. One by one, or all of them in a single combined package.
How File Certification worksAdd an eIDAS SnapPack
A qualified electronic timestamp bound to your sealed package, issued by Disig a.s., whose timestamping service is listed as qualified on the EU Trusted List. Under Article 41(2) of the eIDAS Regulation it enjoys, in proceedings in the European Union and the EEA, the presumption of the accuracy of the date and time it indicates and of the integrity of the data it is bound to.
$6.99
1 stamp
$24.99
5 stamps
$49.99
10 stamps
Bought inside the extension as a one-time purchase, with no auto-renewal. Credits stay on your account.
Free to install. The package on this page exists for people who would rather hand the job over and receive a finished file.