In America, your transcripts—not your diploma certificate—are what institutions and colleges verify. In America, a diploma certificate is a ceremonial document that is hung on a wall. When you apply for a job, the potential employer confirms your legitimacy by speaking with your university directly.
Not like Nigeria, where your certificate is requested. Your social security number is used to confirm your identity rather than any paper documentation. Because of this, American colleges manufacture the transcripts internally but hire outside contractors to provide ceremonial substitute certificates.
You can even use a pencil to write your own unique diploma certificate; as long as you truly graduated from an American university, it is not a fake. I don’t agree with Bola Tinubu.
But because I attended Chicago State University, I can vouch for the fact that he was accepted, continued his studies there, and earned a degree there. I didn’t rely on rumours, chitchat, or conversation in the bar. Even when it goes against our interests, we must always stand up for the truth.
America’s version of primary school). Both my father and mother are dead. I don’t have the elementary school certificate. It was with my late mother. There are any number of third-party vendors that will provide me with a ceremonial elementary school diploma. As long as I genuinely attended, the diploma is not a forgery. It would only be a forgery if I did not graduate.
You cannot forge a diploma for a qualification that you genuinely have! It is just like saying a cheque is a dud because it was not printed by your bank. In America, you can even print your own cheques with a private company, and your bank will honour it as long as there is money there. Try it now. Google check printing services.
The cheque is only dud if there is no money in the bank. The certificate is only a forgery if there was no actual graduation from the university or college purported on the diploma.
America has a database system whose integrity is almost impossible to compromise. Don’t be limited by your Nigerian experience. The world is bigger than Oshodi!
