Anerkennung einer ausländischen Berufsqualifikation im Bereich Hauswirtschaft und Familienpflege beantragen

You have acquired a professional qualification in the field of home economics and family care abroad. Would you like to work in this profession in Germany on a permanent basis? Then you can have your foreign professional qualification officially recognized.

You can have a degree in home economics and family care from abroad officially recognized in Germany. The procedure for recognition is called: equivalence determination.

Please note: Your degree must be state-recognized in the state of your education. Informal or non-formal qualifications cannot be officially recognized in Germany.

You apply for recognition at the competent office in the federal state in which you would like to work. To do this, you must submit an application with all the necessary documents to the relevant state authority.

When determining the equivalence, the competent authority compares your professional qualification from abroad with the professional qualification in the chosen federal state. Important criteria for the comparison are the content and duration of the training. You will receive a decision on the result of the procedure. The decision will state the existing and any missing professional qualifications.

You can also apply for an equivalence assessment from abroad.

• Application form
• Curriculum vitae
• Proof of identity (identity card or passport)
• Proof of your professional qualification (e.g. certificates, professional diploma)
• Proof of education
• Proof of work experience in home and family care
• Proof of other relevant knowledge
• Have you already applied for an equivalence assessment? If so, indicate the office to which you submitted the application.
• Perhaps: you do not yet live or work in the EU, the EEA or Switzerland? Then you must prove: You want to work in Germany in the profession. Proofs are, for example, applications for a job, invitations to job 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 have a state-recognized professional qualification from abroad.
• Your professional qualification is equivalent.
• You want to work in the federal state.

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

The competent office 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. You can use this notice to obtain specific further qualifications and later submit a new application for an equivalence determination.

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

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.

• Determination of equivalence of foreign professional qualifications as a home and family care worker
• One can have a foreign professional qualification in home and family care officially recognized.
• The procedure is called "equivalence determination".
• Documents to be submitted: application form, curriculum vitae, proof of identity, proof of education, relevant work experience, other qualifications, information about a previously submitted application for recognition, perhaps proof of intention to work.
• Processing time: 4 months from receipt of all necessary documents. In certain cases, the competent body may extend the procedure.
• The application for recognition can also be submitted from abroad.