Qualifications Recognition

If you have completed degree studies, you need your qualifications to be officially recognised in order to be allowed to work in the corresponding profession in Germany.

The recognition of foreign professional qualifications or the comparability of a university degree is usually a prerequisite for the issue of a visa to citizens of third countries.

People from a third country with higher education qualifications are required to prove that their foreign academic qualifications are recognised as comparable in Germany in order to be granted a residence permit. The database anabin provided by the Central Office for Foreign Education (ZAB) has information on this.