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Verify an IUA award

Every award conferred by the International University of America is held in a single, tamper-evident register maintained by the registrar. Enter the reference printed on your certificate, with your date of birth, to see exactly what our records hold.

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Records held
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Verifications
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Documents
Credential check

Check your award

Both details must match the register exactly as they are held against your record.

Printed at the foot of your certificate.
As held on your student record.
The process

Four steps to a verified certificate

Self-service verification replaces the old email-and-wait process. Students and employers get the same answer from the same register.

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Identify the record

The reference number and the date of birth must both match the register. A URN on its own is not enough — that is what stops guesswork against the register.

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Confirm the award exists

The register tells you free of charge whether a matching record is held, along with the award title and its current status.

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Pay the verification fee

A single flat fee covers the full record and the signed PDF. Payment is handled by Square — IUA never sees your card details.

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Download the certificate

A dated verification certificate carrying the award details, documents on file, and a reference an employer can quote back to the registrar.

Registrar activity

Activity across IUA

A running summary of what the records office has processed. Figures update as staff add awards and students run checks.

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Students on the register
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Award programmes
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Verifications completed
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Documents on file

Verifications, last six months

Counted from the registrar's verification log.

Got questions?

Verification FAQ

Common questions about checking an award conferred by the International University of America.

The fee covers payment processing and the cost of maintaining the register and its supporting documents online. It is charged once per verification certificate, not per search — the search itself tells you free of charge whether a matching record exists.
Contact the records office at verify@iua.ac with a copy of your passport or national ID. Staff will confirm the date of birth held against your record and correct the register where it is wrong. The date of birth must be the one recorded at enrolment, which is not always the one you expect if the record was created from a scanned application.
Yes, provided you give them the reference number and your date of birth. The certificate they download carries a verification reference and the date of the check, so it can be re-checked with the registrar at any point afterwards.
The award was conferred and subsequently withdrawn, usually following an academic misconduct finding under IUA's Academic Regulations. The register shows the status honestly rather than removing the record entirely.
Passport copies, degree certificates and transcripts are retained for the lifetime of the record. You may ask the records office to remove a specific document at any time by writing to verify@iua.ac.
Check the URN carefully for transcription errors and confirm the date of birth held on your student record. If both are correct and the check still fails, email verify@iua.ac quoting the URN and we will investigate within two working days.
Get in touch

Reach the records office

Our registrar team handles corrections, disputes and payment queries.

Verification queries

verify@iua.ac

Payments & refunds

finance@iua.ac
Quote your Square receipt

Records office

Royal Arsenal Gatehouse
Woolwich, London SE18 6AR

Office hours

Mon – Fri
09:00 – 16:30 (GMT)

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Office of the Registrar —
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Students on register
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Award programmes
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Verifications
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Verification income

Verifications by month

Last twelve months, counted from the activity log.

Awards by programme

How the register breaks down across IUA's faculties.

Latest activity

Everything staff and students have done, newest first.

Add a student record

The URN and date of birth entered here are the two details a student will need in order to verify. Change either one and the student’s old lookup stops working, so correct them carefully.

Documents are stored as links, so there is no size limit and no Firebase Storage bill. Paste a public URL for each document. You can still pick a file instead — it goes to Firebase Storage when that is enabled, and otherwise images are compressed and held in the database under 1.5 MB.
Student identity
Must be unique. Used as the record key.
The award
Supporting documents
or upload
or upload
or upload
or upload
Write Name | URL to label a document, or just the URL on its own.
Where to host a document. Any public direct link works — Google Drive (Share → Anyone with the link, then use the uc?export=view&id= form), Dropbox (change ?dl=0 to ?raw=1), ImgBB, Cloudinary, or your own web host. Paste the link that opens the file directly, not a preview page.
Special note
or upload

Student register

Every record currently held. Search by URN, name, award or status.

URNNameAwardConferredStatusDocs

Activity log

A summary of all activity in IUA — record creation, edits, deletions, verifications, payments and sign-ins.

Access codes

Issue a code to unlock a verification certificate without payment — for internal checks, fee waivers, or when a payment failed but later cleared.

CodeValid forIssuedStatus

Payment and fee

Paste your Square payment link here. Students are sent to it, and Square returns them with the certificate unlocked.

In Square, open your payment link → Checkout options → set the redirect URL to this page with ?paid=1 on the end, for example . The URN is carried through automatically.

Database rules

Paste these into Realtime Database → Rules. They stop anyone reading the whole register while still letting a student open their own record.

Diagnose a failed lookup

Enter exactly what the student typed. This shows the key that gets computed, and whether the register holds anything under it.

Maintenance

Repair jobs that run across the whole register.

Recalculates the figures shown on the public activity section directly from the register.

Regenerates the public lookup entry for every record from its URN and date of birth. Run this once after changing how students verify, or if a student insists their details are right but the check fails.