No, the application for the VPD at uni-assist does not replace an application for admission to Freie Universität Berlin. The VPD is only an evaluation of your certificates and must be uploaded as a document to the Freie Universität Berlin application portal.

You can apply for a VPD at any time, regardless of our application deadlines. It is valid for one year after issuance.

Uni-assist usually needs four to six weeks to process the VPD application, and even longer during peak periods. We therefore strongly recommend that you submit your VPD application to uni-assist as early as possible and, if necessary, well before the application deadlines of Freie Universität Berlin, otherwise you will not be informed in time about missing documents and will not be able to submit your application to FU Berlin by the deadline. The decisive factor for meeting the application deadline is the complete receipt of your application documents, including the VPD, in the FU Berlin application portal, not the date on which the VPD was created or applied for at uni-assist.

To apply for a student visa in good time, you can present the VPD from uni-assist to the German Embassy in your home country.

No, the VPD must be issued for Freie Universität Berlin in order for you to apply to Freie Universität Berlin.

Yes, a fee must be paid to uni-assist for the verification of certificates. Your VPD application will only be processed by uni-assist once the fee has been received in the uni-assist account.

Yes, please be sure to also note the special country-specific information provided by uni-assist.

In rare cases where university entrance qualifications are unclear and are up to the decision of the university, uni-assist will give you a substitute certificate instead of a VPD. You'll need to upload this substitute certificate to the Freie Universität Berlin application portal instead of the VPD.