Anerkennung als Rettungssanitäterin oder Rettungssanitäter mit Berufsqualifikation aus dem Ausland beantragen

You have acquired a professional qualification as a paramedic abroad and would like to work in the profession permanently in Germany? Then you can have your foreign professional qualification officially recognized.

You can have a degree as a paramedic 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 training. 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 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 notice states the existing and any missing professional qualifications.

• Application form
• Curriculum vitae
• Proof of identity (identity card or passport)
• Proof of your professional qualification (e.g. certificates, professional diploma)
• Proof of education
• Evidence of professional experience as a paramedic
• Proof of other relevant knowledge
• Have you already applied for recognition? If so, please indicate the office to which you submitted the application.
• Certificate of your place of business or registration certificate of your place of residence. Or prove: you work predominantly in the federal state.
• Proof of your personal suitability: for example, certificate of good conduct or criminal record excerpt.
• Proof of your health suitability: medical certificate
  

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.

• Equivalence of your professional qualification
• You want to work in the state.
• Health suitability: you are mentally and physically able to work in the profession.
• Personal suitability: you are reliable to work as a paramedic and have no criminal record.

90,00 Euro plus postage

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 receive recognition if your professional qualification and the professional qualification in the federal state are equivalent.

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

4 months

The competent office will acknowledge receipt of your application within one month. The competent office will inform you if further documents are required.

If you have submitted all the required documents, you will receive a decision with the result after 4 months at the latest. In certain cases, the competent body may extend the procedure.

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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.

• Foreign professional qualifications as a paramedic recognition
• It is possible to have a foreign professional qualification as a paramedic 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 an already submitted application for recognition, certificate of registration, proof of health suitability, proof of personal suitability.
• Processing time: 4 months from receipt of all necessary documents. In certain cases, the competent body may extend the procedure.
  

State Examination Office for Health Professions