Originally Posted by US_medstudent

It took me about two months from start to finish just for the equivalency, gathering all the needed paperwork took an extra two weeks. Once everything was together I gave it to one of my fathers friends who was headed to the area who gave it to another family friend in Islamabad. I was planning on directly mailing it to them but from all the posts I read on this site I thought it be best if it was hand delivered.

So someone took it to the office and obviously many "objections" were put on. The main problem I had was the fact that I graduated HS in three years so I was missing a whole year on my transcript and the the people at the IBCC thought I dropped out or something (even though they had my diploma in front of them) so I had to get official letters printed from the HS. Another issue was my HS sends out official transcripts which are photocopies of the real one one. Meaning they would go and print one real copy and make 3 photocopies, stamp and seal the photocopies and either mail those out or give them to you. So even though US colleges accept that and its considered "official" the IBCC wanted an original from a computer not a photocopy. So I had to go and convince them to change their policy for me. The other issue was how the transcript abbreviated certain courses, any American college would be easily be able to make out the class names but the IBCC couldnt for some reason so I had to to get bunch of graduation requirement/syllabus sort of documents from the college office. So again once I got all of these together we sent them through another family friend was which was going to the area around that time. So even after all that they still had some minor issues but I was able to resolve them over the phone just by talking to our family friend and once he communicated that to the IBCC and they saw the documents were already there, they issued temporary letter of equivalence. Then they were going to mail the school to confirm the documents werent forged so our family friend payed for FedEx instead of regular mail so I was able to track it and knew when it reached here. Once it reached here I went to see the lady at the registrar and she regretted me even attending that HS because she had to prepare all the documents all over again and get them signed. So once she prepared and officially sealed (make sure their officially sealed with a bunch of stickers on the flap of the envelope) I gave her a FedEx slip which she filled out and stamped with the school seal. So then I took it to the local FedEx center and had it mailed directly where it came from under the same persons name. So about two weeks after that they issued an official certificate of equivalency and handed my HS diploma back.

I didnt need to use my college courses even though I had the same sciences at the college level. I took bio, chem, phy in my three years of HS so that was enough for their purposes.

In conclusion, have alot of patience and build a rapport with your HS registrar and have good communications with the person handling your doc's in pakistan. I made sure I had all my documents and made five copies of each item before sending it and even then I had issues so pay attention to even the most insignificant item.

I hope that helps, if you need anything else just post and I'll try to answer.