Medical Certificate in Vlorë: Online, Same-Day from €34.99

Vlorë is Albania's second-largest port and the country's third-largest city, with an economy built on tourism, fishing, food processing and olive and fruit agriculture, plus almost 300 sunny days a year that have made it the gateway to the Albanian Riviera. Under Albanian labour law, sick leave requires a raport mjekësor (medical report) through the digital Family Doctor Portal, with the employer covering 80% of salary for the first 14 days and the Institute of Social Insurance (ISSH) covering it from day 15, for up to six months.

Vlorë's population and clinic demand swell sharply during the tourist season, when family doctor appointments in the centre can be hard to get on short notice, and workers along the waterfront often can't leave a shift to queue at a clinic. Our online service lets you submit your case any time of day, with most assessments completed within 24 hours, so you're not choosing between an appointment and a day's income during peak season.

Common situations we see from Vlorë: hospitality and hotel staff along the waterfront boulevard needing fit-to-fly or sick leave certificates around travel periods, food-processing and olive-industry workers needing certificates during busy harvest and export periods, and students at Ismail Qemali University of Vlorë needing medical proof to defer an exam.

The opening of Vlora International Airport on 8 May 2025, about 10 kilometres north of the city near Akërni, changed what travel clearance means locally: Albania's third international airport puts departures on the city's doorstep rather than a long drive up the A2 to Rinas. For the Riviera's seasonal staff that cuts both ways — easier arrival for the foreign workers filling the gaps the Albanian Tourist Union has estimated at around 30,000 skilled seasonal roles nationally, and a much shorter window between deciding to fly and needing a fit-to-fly letter in hand. Anyone travelling with a recent illness, a healing injury or a condition an airline may query is now doing that paperwork on a same-week timeline rather than a same-month one.

Vlorë's regional hospital is the largest in southern Albania and acts as the reference point not just for the city's roughly 66,000 residents but for the coastal municipalities of Himarë and Sarandë as well; its emergency department alone deals with more than 40,000 urgent patients a year. That catchment is the practical problem — when summer multiplies the coastal population, a routine sick note competes with genuine emergencies arriving from the whole Riviera. The city's other employers add steady year-round demand, with the Port of Vlorë ranking as Albania's second busiest and the surrounding economy running on fishing, olive and fruit processing, salt and bitumen, while Ismail Qemali University, founded in 1994 and now the country's second largest with some 4,800 students across 82 programmes, compresses exam-period requests into two short windows.

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   Complete assessment

   3-5 minutes. Select your certificate type, confirm Albania as your country, and answer relevant health questions covering your condition, the dates you need covered, and any employer, ISSH, or institution details you'd like included. No payment yet: you're only charged if a certificate is issued.

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   Doctor reviews your case

   Reviewed by a doctor registered to assess cases in Albania, generally during business hours (9am-6pm CET/CEST, Monday-Friday). The doctor may request more information through the same portal, or in rare cases advise that your situation needs an in-person examination rather than an online certificate.

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   Receive your PDF

   Emailed the same day your certificate is approved, with a verification reference that your employer, ISSH, or the requesting institution can scan to help confirm authenticity directly.

Typical private consultation costs are a general range and vary by clinic and location within Albania.

The gap between our pricing and a typical private consultation generally reflects the difference between an in-person clinic visit, with its overhead of a physical location, receptionist time, and travel, and an online assessment built specifically around producing a same-day certificate. You are paying for the doctor's review and the certificate itself, not a waiting room, and the price is the same across all certificate types you might need. Pricing is shown in euros throughout, and no additional fee is added for delivery, certificate verification, or the doctor's review. The price you see is the price you pay if a certificate is issued.

Note on ISSH claims: Exact evidentiary requirements and payment rules for an ISSH sickness benefit claim are set by ISSH and are reviewed periodically, so a private certificate alone cannot guarantee that a specific claim will be accepted. If your certificate needs to support an ISSH claim specifically, confirm current requirements with ISSH or your employer's HR team before relying on it for that purpose.

Read the full Albania rules, glossary and national FAQ →

Every certificate for Albania is reviewed by a doctor registered to assess cases in Albania, based on the information you provide about your condition and situation. A clinician will only issue a certificate after a genuine assessment. We do not operate on a pay-first, questions-later basis, and no certificate is guaranteed simply because a request was submitted. If a certificate is not clinically appropriate, for example because your case would benefit from an in-person examination or further investigation, the doctor will decline to issue one and you receive a full, automatic refund.

Registration details for the reviewing doctor can be provided on request, and we encourage you to reach out if you'd like to confirm credentials before relying on a certificate for something important. If you ever have a concern about the assessment you received, our complaints process is there for exactly that. We would always prefer to resolve a concern directly, and treat every case on its own facts rather than applying a blanket response. This process sits alongside, not instead of, any right you may have to raise a concern with the relevant professional body in Albania.

We don't rotate doctors between certificate types based on price. The same standard of genuine clinical assessment applies whether you're requesting a sick leave certificate or a sports fitness certificate. If a doctor has questions about your case, they'll ask through the same portal you submitted your assessment through, and you won't be charged until a certificate is actually issued.

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