For graduates, applicants and regulated professionals in the UK
Everyone checks your degree at the source. Keep your own sealed copy.
Screening services contact the awarding body, regulators ask for originals, and an overseas qualification adds a comparability statement on top. In 2026 ProofSnap seals your certificate, transcript and verification screen into one certified package, delivered in 24 hours and verifiable offline by an employer or a regulator.
Certificate, transcript and letters sealed exactly as you send them
Verification screens captured, with network evidence
Qualified eIDAS timestamp, with the EU presumption, and a Bitcoin anchor
Verifiable offline for years, using the validation data included
Degree check requested
Awarding body contacted at source. Response times vary.
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 your degree to a UK employer or regulator?
UK employers verify with the awarding institution or a screening service, and a comparability statement for an overseas qualification costs £69.60 and takes about 15 working days. ProofSnap seals your certificate, transcript and verification screen into one certified package in 2026, delivered in 24 hours for $59.99, about £44.
How UK degree checking works
Four things that decide whether you can prove your qualification quickly or slowly.
Employers verify at source
Screening services and HR teams contact the awarding institution directly, or use HEDD, the higher education degree verification service. It works, and it takes time.
Overseas qualifications need comparability
A Statement of Comparability from UK ENIC, the UK national information centre for international qualifications, costs 69.60 GBP and takes around 15 working days once the paperwork is complete. Employers and regulators ask for it routinely, and it is the document that proves what your qualification equals, not that you hold it.
Regulators want originals and evidence
Registration with a professional regulator runs on certified documents and evidence of qualification sent through their own route. What you submit matters, and so does being able to show exactly what you submitted.
Degree fraud is a real problem
Employers verify rather than assume. That scepticism lands on honest applicants too, so a document with a provable date and a checkable integrity guarantee is worth having.
How it works
One payment, one upload, one finished package.
Pay and upload
Pay the one-time fee of $59.99, about £44. A secure upload page opens straight after payment for your certificate, transcript and supporting letters.
Send anything verifiable online
A university verification page, an alumni portal record, a digital certificate viewer, a regulator register entry. Send the link while it resolves.
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 and captures inside, verifiable offline by an employer, a regulator or a solicitor.
If you are ordering a comparability statement or applying for registration, seal your documents before you send them. The point of the package is to fix what you submitted, on the day you submitted it.
What is inside the package
One ZIP. Twelve files do the sealing, and every document you send sits in files/. Structured data for anyone technical, a readable report for everyone else.
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.
Your degree certificate, transcript and 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 eIDAS timestamp with the data needed to validate it later
A Bitcoin OpenTimestamps anchor, independent of us and of the timestamp authority
Verification scripts that check the hashes, the signature and the timestamp offline, without visiting our site
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
The timestamp is issued by Disig a.s., a Qualified Trust Service Provider on the EU Trusted List. For a UK recipient the value is practical rather than statutory: an independent, checkable time source and an integrity guarantee that does not rely on our word.
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 check it offline, with no account
What proving a degree costs in the UK in 2026
The other routes answer questions asked by other people. This one answers the question about your own documents.
| Route | Published price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Statement of Comparability | £69.60 | Confirms what an overseas qualification compares to in the UK, about 15 working days once all documents and payment are received. |
| Employer screening or sector degree check | paid by the employer | A result for the employer, on their timetable. |
| Certified or notarised copies | set by the notary | A notarised paper copy, for use where originals are not accepted. |
| ProofSnap certified package | $59.99, about £44 | 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.
UK degree documents certification
Delivered within 24 hours of receiving your files, one flat fee, no subscription
$59.99, about £44 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.
Proving a UK degree, answered
The extension
Would you rather do it yourself?
The extension does the same job on your own machine: certify your certificate and transcript locally and capture the verification screen 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.