Procedure for documentation of accepted students from India

Hello Friends,

I wanted to let you know the detailed procedure to get all the required documents so that yuou can get them done easily and quickly. This is applicable only for students from India. As i am from Mumbai, some procedure may be applicable for students from mumbai but it is more or less the same for students from other states.

Once you get the documents from the IMIM office like your offer letter, admission letter, residence proof, etc (which they will send you), first thing you must do it to apply for the Spain Visa. It generally takes 3-4 weeks before you get your visa but it is subjective. It may take longer in special cases. There are 3 spanish consulates in India. One in New Delhi, one in Mumbai and one in Assam (not sure abt the reliability of the one in Assam). Well, for the Visa application, you need to fill in the form which you can download online from thier website. ALong with the form attach all the documents as mentioned on their site. Do not take a DD as written on the site. If you are an Erasmus Mundus student, its free for you. but please confirm , in case they have changes the rules.

Also, take one copy of all your certificates, mark sheet sand get them attested by the Spanish consulate. You will require them in Madrid.

Now, the next important document is Declaration of Value. For this, there is a long procedure. This document is issued by the Italian Consulate in India. It is a proof that you have equivalent degree to undertake this masters course in Italy. But to give you this, the consulate requires an Apostile on your degree certificate. We will come to this later.

First you need to get your degree certificate attested by the university that issued it. For eg, if you have a deree certificate from University of Mumbai, you need to go to Kalina campus in Santacruz to get this attestation. There you need to go to the Examination office building and get thsi attestation. Before that, you need to remove the lamination from the rear of your degree certificate (if any lamination priviously exists). Remove maximum lamination as possible as you will need all the space that isd available. There are a lot of stamps. It takes abt 2-3 weeks to get this attestation and you also need to pay around Rs.500-700 for getting it. In case you find a tricky person, bribe him and you can get your job done in a week.

Once this is done, you go and get a notary stamp on the certificate. Remember, all these stamps must be taken on the original degree certificate/s (only bachelors or Masters and Bachelors as the case may be). After getting the notary done, which looks like a half dozen stamps on your certificate, its time to get a goverment attestation. This procedure here onwards, is specific to Maharashtra state. Similar procedure must exist in other states as well. Please find out abt it, if this is not applicable to you.

Opposite to Mantralaya, there is a huge tall building. There on the 18th or 20th floor, you need to get one attestation. it is the same floor where you get stamps for the working permits to work outside India. You can just ask anyopne there and get the exact location in the building. This is the only attestation that is free of cost. Once you have got this one, you now need to go to the education department in the Mantralaya. The timings for this department s in the afterrnoon after 3pm. Find out exact timings before you go. There you need to submit your originals for attestation. This attestation is a pre-requisit for you to get the Apostile sticker. This takes abt 1-2 weeks. Once you get this, now you need to go to the Office of External Affairs Ministry, Patiala House, New delhi. This is the only place in India where you can get the Apostile done. So don't even think abt finding other options. It is a one days job. So not a big deal. Just take a Rs.50 post DD available at any post office in India. You can also get one outside Patiala house. Now here you need to show your indian skills. its a mess in there, People from all over the place are there to get Apostile. So you need to get inthe right queue and submit you document befor lunch time. Only if this done, you can get the Apostile stamp in the evening else you wait till the next day.

Once you get Apostile sticker, you have completed half part of the race. Take photo copies of all degree certificates that you got Apostile and now you need to translate them into Italian language. For doing the same, you can go to Indo-Italian Chamber of Commerce near Siddhivinayak Temple, in Mumbai. Tell them what you want them for and they will do all the necessary work. It takes abt 4-5 days for this translation process and they charge you per word basis so may turn out to be a bit expensive. In case you know any other place, its your choice.

Once you have translated, take all those documents to the Italian consulate near Pedder road, Mumbai. You need to get these translated documents attested from the Italian consulate. It takes abt 2-3 weeks because these guys are too lazy. If i am not wrong, this is done free of cost. Only things is that you always need to push them to get your work done.

Thats it. You have achieved an olympic gold if you do all this by yourself. So start now and take the lead. All the best to you !!!

In case you have any more quesries, do write to me.

Listos para MILAN

Hi everyone I'm one of the students from the 5th IMIM edition, a little about me, My name is Alfredo Casados, I'm from Mexico, I did my B.S. in computer science, graduated from Tecnologico de Monterrey, it had been already 6 months since we had our first class at UPM, now we are ready to leave España and go to Italia, for the spring term. The semester here in Madrid was awesome, in every aspect I can think about it, the city is just great, it can offer almost everything for anybody, from culture to extreme partying.

The quality of the topics and of the professors is really good, this first semester was into a management point of view and they it was covered was awesome, this batch have different engineering backgrounds some of us didn't have any topics related in college of in working experience with the topics covered in this semester, but the program is so good that now we are familiar with concepts about accounting and finance that in my opinion are some how difficult to get if your B.S. is in engineering.

For the Latin applicants you will find a little piece of your countries here (also indians and Chinese people), but specially latinos, for other cultures it will be a great opportunity to know in the first stop Spain, the country has too much to offer in the trips along the semester(some are organized by the school, the rest we did it), every city is unique and special, I personally expended time in the north, in Galicia and Asturias, is an amazing part of Spain "greener" as you may notice once you arrive to Madrid that is dry, one constant in every city, is the people, spaniards are welcoming people and very open to meet foreigners.

In general I don't think anyone from the current batch can complain about Spain, the party time was great, the studying time was hard but all was and is worthy.

I hope you guys enjoy Spain, as much as we did

Cheers!

Location for UPM Campus

Well guys, this is the location of the school, since some of you are going to get the admission mail in the next comings months, we think is better for you to know exactly where is place the UPM campus, to once you got the admission mail, start looking for proper accommodations near campus (if some of you are feeling to live near campus).

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What after Applying

Sorry guys we were having exams and this is shifting time to the new place for all of us so its a little difficult for us to keep posting. Now anyways we are finished with all the exams  except a paper to submit.  We partied a little and started packing things all set to go to Milan ( Como actually).

Recently there were so many queries on the admission status in the online application tool of the university. I have no idea on that status in the site but will try to find information about it.

The most important thing all the applicants should know is your final selection will be informed to you by email. Please be relaxed till then. The process goes on like this. First I think its some where in the third week of March that they inform you about your status. If you are a non European student applying for erasmus mundus scholarship, there are two lists one the main list and the other reserve list. You will be informed about the list in which you are.  These lists are then sent to the European union which will grant the scholar ship. The reserve list is the back up list. If someone from the main list drops then they pass the scholarship to the reserve list students. Mostly all the students in the main list will get  scholarships. The number of scholarships each year changes. As you all might have also known that the scholarships for each country are also limited. So we think this info might help you a little.

*All the views expressed here are purely personal and has got nothing to do with the university. The facts mentioned above might change as the admission process is confidential and none of us have complete idea on it. So please take this only as our experience but not as rigid facts.