Apply for a residence permit to be issued for the recognition of professional qualification on the basis of an agreement of the Federal Employment Agency

    You can obtain a residence permit if there is an agreement between the Federal Employment Agency and the administration of your country of origin and you have been placed in employment.

    Description

    You can obtain a residence permit for recognition of your foreign professional qualification if you have been placed in employment on the basis of an agreement between the Federal Employment Agency and the employment services in your country of origin. In the health and care sector, such an agreement is, for example, the "Triple Win" program for the placement of care workers.

    Before you receive your residence permit, you do not have to take care of the recognition procedure in Germany. You can also start the recognition procedure after your arrival in Germany. The required procedure is regulated in the placement agreement. The Federal Employment Agency ensures that the applicants preselected in the placement agreement are recruited in countries with an appropriate standard of training.

    The Federal Employment Agency must have approved the employment in the desired occupational field. The approval of the Federal Employment Agency is granted for a limited period of one year. You can apply for approval to work

    • in regulated professions in the health and care sector and
    • in other selected regulated and non-regulated professions

    receive.

    Regulated professions are professions for which you must acquire special professional qualifications. This is the case, for example, as a doctor, architect or pharmacist. You can find out whether your profession is regulated in Germany, which laws govern it and which body you need to contact to check your qualifications in the information portal "Recognition in Germany".

    The Federal Employment Agency will approve your employment if the work is related to the professional knowledge of the occupation you wish to have recognized after entering Germany. A professional connection is given if, for example, you want to have your qualification as a paediatric nurse recognized and want to work as a nursing assistant during the recognition procedure.

    You must also make a declaration that you will carry out the procedure to determine equivalence or, in the case of regulated professions, to obtain a license to practice the profession after entering Germany.

    The residence permit entitles you to work up to 20 hours a week, independent of the professional qualification to be recognized.

    Online services

    There is currently no online service available for this location.

    Competent office

    The foreigners authority responsible for the applicant's place of residence.

    Contact point

    To the foreigners authority responsible for the applicant's place of residence.

    Contact person

    Unfortunately, no contact persons were found for District Verden (Lower Saxony). Please check the service description above for information on how to find the responsible contact person.

    Forms

    Not specified

    Prerequisites

    Not specified

    • Appeal against the decision of the immigration authority within one month of notification
    • Legal action before the court named in the notice of objection if the objection is not upheld

    Procedure

    Not specified

    Deadlines

    Application deadline: 8 weeks (Sie sollten die Aufenthaltserlaubnis spätestens 8 Wochen vor Ablauf Ihres noch gültigen Visums beantragen.)

    Objection deadline: 1 month

    Processing time

    Not specified

    Costs

    Unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen können Sie eine Gebührenermäßigung oder Gebührenbefreiung erhalten.: Fee 100,00 EUR

    Notes (specifics)

    There are no indications or special features.

    Further Information

    Unterstützende Institutionen

    not specified

    Welche Dokumente resultieren aus dieser Leistung?

    not specified

    Area of validity

    Lower Saxony

    Official approval

    Officially approved by Ministry of the Interior and Local Government of the State of Brandenburg on 10.09.2020

    Version

    Technisch erstellt on 02.10.2020
    Technisch geändert on 27.03.2026

    Keywords

    Residence permit, Entry, Immigration, Language skills, Recognition of foreign professional qualifications, Consent, Employment Agency, Non-regulated professions, Sufficient German language skills, Concrete job offer, Qualification measures, Placement agreement, Triple Win, Nursing staff, Healthcare sector, Care area, Regulated professions, Foreign professional qualifications, Mediation

    Language version

    Deutsch

    Sprache: de
    Technisch erstellt on 07.06.2017
    Technisch geändert on 14.05.2025

    Englisch

    Sprache: en
    Sprachbezeichnung nativ: English
    Technisch erstellt on 22.10.2025
    Technisch geändert on 23.10.2024