Although the term to respond is 45 business days, the process of legalization of teaching documents to take effect abroad and within the country currently suffers significant delays.
Among other problems, specialists argue the lack of qualified personnel, difficulty acquiring inputs and obstacles to moving documents between university headquarters, according to an article published in Granma.
At least at the University of Havana, 5,059 documents are pending for processing within the 2023 period until July 2025, when 22 452 applications were received, of which 17 463 have been processed, Denise Pereira Yero, head of the independent legal department of the Ministry of Higher Education, told the press.
“In total, until this year more than 6,300 documents have been processed,” said the specialist. In 2024, the Department legalized 30,789 documents and, only in the first half of 2025, 16 788 have already been processed.
These, Pereira Yero explains, are distributed mainly in titles (7 933), certifications of notes (4 905) and thematic plans (3 325); Document photocopies (120), certifications (471), and other documents of different nature (34).
The public gaze is concentrated in the current scenario, generated after the transfer of functions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex) to the Ministry of Justice (Minjus) in February of this year.
The process of these documents has experienced sustained growth in recent times to the extent that more people carry out their migratory plans.
According to Rosabel Gamón Verde, Deputy Minister of the Minjus, the volume of legalized documents has increased from 442 564, in 2022, to 860 135 in 2024; Only until June 2025 already add 600 614.
Legalization of documents crosses maze procedures between blackouts
This increase responds to the rise of certifications in civil records and notaries, promoted by factors such as the Law of Democratic Memory, of Spain. To this is added the Cuban migratory movement, which in recent years has increased dramatically, reducing the population of the island to less than 10 million inhabitants.
They are teaching documents are the ones with the greatest delays, with delays from two to four years in the issuing centers, such as the University of Havana, of Medical Sciences of Havana or Cujae, he said Granma At the beginning of Julio Camilo Pascual Vizcaíno, president of the Societary Group of international laws
