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Description

If you have acquired a vocational qualification at skilled worker level in the countries of the former Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, the former Czechoslovakia, or Hungary and have a Spätaussiedlerbescheinigung or a Vertriebenenausweis, you can apply for recognition of your training qualification in accordance with the Bundesvertriebenengesetz (BVFG). The vocational qualification will be recognized if it is equivalent to a profession in the Federal Republic of Germany. Equivalence will be examined and granted on a case-by-case basis. However, a German examination certificate will not be issued.

If the qualification in question is comparable to a vocational qualification in industry, commerce or the service sector (not crafts), the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in whose district you live is responsible.

If you do not have late repatriate status, you can still have your foreign vocational qualification recognized. You can apply for recognition in accordance with the Vocational Qualifications Act (BQFG).

Prerequisites

• recognized late repatriate status or federal expellee ID card
• vocational qualification at skilled worker level in the countries of the former Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, former Czechoslovakia or Hungary
• the qualification is extensively comparable with the respective German educational qualification

Procedure

You can only apply for recognition of your qualification in writing.

• Use the application form on the website of your local Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) or under "Forms" (Application for recognition according to BVFG).
• If possible, speak personally with the responsible employee named for this purpose.
• Submit all documents mentioned in the application completely and certified.
• As a rule, you will receive verbal preliminary information as to whether and in which profession an equalization is possible.
• Your documents will be thoroughly checked and the application will be processed.
• You will receive a fee notice.
• Once the fee notice has been paid, you will be sent the notice of recognition or non-recognition.

Deadlines

none

Processing time

The processing of the complete documents usually takes up to 6 weeks.

Required documents

• The following documents are required:
  • Proof of identity (identity card or passport, if necessary proof of change of name)
  • Residence permit
  • Curriculum vitae in tabular form (with monthly and annual data)
  • Certified copies of the original certificates and diplomas (in the native language)
  • Certified copies of the translations of these certificates and diplomas, prepared by a sworn and publicly appointed interpreter
  • Certified copy of the expellees' identity card (certificate according to § 15 of the Federal Expellees Act) or the late repatriate certificate
  • Copy of the residence permit as well as the identity card (Passa-Port/Identity-Card)
  • If applicable, further certificates/evidence of school or vocational training or professional activities (work book, activity certificates), insofar as they are related to the professional qualification
  • Declaration that no application has been made to any other chamber of industry and commerce, chamber of handicrafts or other body for verification of these documents.

  You can find out which documents are required in your case from the application form of the relevant Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

Online procedures

Regional complement (Industrie- und Handelskammer für München und Oberbayern)

• Online-Antrag zur Feststellung der Gleichwertigkeit von Zeugnissen von Spätaussiedlern nach BVFG

  If you are a late repatriate, your vocational training certificate or qualification can be recognised under certain conditions. You can submit the online application to your competent Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

Fees

• A fee of 20.00 to 80.00 EUR is charged for the examination and processing of the application, depending on the fee tariff of the locally responsible IHK.

Legal bases

• § 10 Bundesvertriebenengesetz (BVFG)

Remedy

Opposition

Links to more information

• Anerkennungs-Finder

  Informationsportal zur Anerkennung ausländischer Berufsqualifikationen

• Flyer "Berufliche Anerkennung für Spätaussiedler"

  Flyer des Bundesamts für Migration und Flüchtlinge mit einem Vergleich der Verfahren nach Vertriebenengesetz und nach Berufsqualifikationsgesetz