Apply for recognition as a health care and nursing assistant or as a nursing assistant with professional qualification from abroad.

You submit an application for recognition to the competent body. You must submit all the necessary documents in the form of copies to the competent body.

The competent body will then check: Is your foreign professional qualification equivalent to the professional qualification in the federal state? In doing so, the competent body compares the qualifications with the help of certain criteria. Important criteria are the content and duration of the training. The competent body also takes into account your professional experience, your other certificates of competence and qualifications when carrying out the equivalence test.

You will receive a decision with the result of the procedure. You will get the recognition if your professional qualification and the professional qualification in the federal state are equivalent.

Sometimes there are significant differences between the professional qualifications. The differences are listed in your notification. With this notice, you can specifically further qualify and later submit a new application for recognition.

If your professional qualification is not equivalent at all, you will not receive recognition.

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• Equivalence of your professional qualification
• You want to work in the state.

• Application form
• Curriculum vitae
• Proof of identity (identity card or passport)
• Proof of your professional qualification (e.g. certificates, professional diploma)
• Proof of the content and duration of your education (e.g. Diploma Supplement, Transcript of Records)
• Proof of work experience in the profession
• Evidence of other relevant qualifications
• Have you already applied for recognition? If so, please indicate the office to which you submitted the application.
• Do you not yet live or work in the EU, EEA or Switzerland? Then you may have to prove You want to work in the profession in the federal state. Evidence includes job applications, invitations to interviews, or a location note from the Central Service Office for Professional Recognition (ZSBA).

If your documents are not in German, you must submit German translations of your documents. The translations must be made by translators who are publicly appointed or authorized.

You can take legal action (for example, file an appeal) against the decision of the responsible office within a certain period of time. The decision will then be reviewed. Details on this can be found in the appeal instructions at the end of your decision. You should first talk to the responsible office before taking legal action against the decision.

15.08.2023