Anerkennung der Gleichwertigkeit von Zeugnissen von Spätaussiedlern nach BVFG beantragen

Are you a late repatriate and would like to have your vocational qualification recognized? Find out more here.

As a late repatriate, you are entitled to a recognition procedure for your educational qualifications. This involves checking whether your qualification is comparable with a German qualification.

You can have both school and university degrees and vocational qualifications recognized.

You can have your vocational qualification compared with any profession that exists or no longer exists in Germany.

As a rule, your professional experience is not taken into account.

• Proof of recognition as a late repatriate (Spätaussiedler/Spätaussiedlerin)
• Proof of your qualification (school, university or vocational qualification)

• You are a late repatriate (Spätaussiedler or Spätaussiedlerin)
• You have acquired your degree in a resettlement area

Fees will be charged. However, these depend on the scope of your recognition procedure.

To have your degree obtained abroad verified, you must submit an application. This should be sent to the relevant office. Which office is responsible for you depends on the following factors:

• Your foreign degree,
• your place of residence or work,

The competent body compares your degree obtained abroad with the German reference degree. If this comparison does not reveal any significant differences, you will be certified as having full equivalence.

If there is partial equivalence in the regulated professions, the competent office will give you specific measures that you can take to compensate for the differences found.

can compensate for the differences found.

"Regulated" means that you need recognition of your professional qualifications in order to practice the profession or use the professional title.

In those professions for which you do not necessarily need recognition (non-regulated), you will receive a notice detailing the differences found. With this, you can apply directly to employers or choose an individually suitable continuing education program.

The recognition procedure ends with either a positive or a negative decision.

Partial recognition is not provided for.

Whether a procedure according to the BVFG or the BQFG Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or the professional laws of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is more promising depends on the individual case and the respective relevant regulations.

If a qualification has not been recognized in accordance with the BVFG, it is possible to submit a new application in accordance with the BQFG Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or the professional laws of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

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If you have lost certificates of qualification for your profession, they can be reissued.

You can also go through the equivalence procedure under the Federal Qualification Assessment Act (BQFG). This is possible for 600 professions that are regulated by a federal law. You can find out exactly which occupations this applies to on the federal government's website (BQ-Portal).

Supplement:

You can also go through the equivalence procedure according to the Berufsqualifikationsfeststellungsgesetz (BQFG M-V) as well as according to the professional laws of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. This is possible for over 154 professions that are regulated by state law.

You can find out exactly which professions this applies to in the professional filter on the Recognition in Germany website.

• Easier recognition for late repatriates
• Possible for all certificates and degrees (school, university or vocational qualifications)
• Alternatively, recognition according to the Federal Qualification Assessment Act (BQFG) is possible (also after negative recognition according to the BVFG)

• Alternatively, recognition is possible according to the Law on the Determination of Equivalence of Foreign Professional Qualifications in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Federal Qualification Determination Law - BQFG M-V) (also after negative recognition according to the BVFG) as well as according to the corresponding regulations in the professional laws of the state of M-V.

• Federal Office of Administration
• The competent body within the meaning of the BQFG Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is - subject to deviating specialist legal regulations - the competent supreme state authority.
• Competent body according to the relevant specialist legal regulations

An informal application is sufficient.