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Fiabilité: moyenne, certains détails sont en cours de confirmation. Consultez la page du régulateur avant de payer.

Votre itinéraire : Allemagne

Dernière vérification : 29 oct. 2026Fiabilité: moyenne, certains détails sont en cours de confirmation. Consultez la page du régulateur avant de payer.

Test de langue · Scores minimums

German, CEFR B2 (licence)

niveau CECRL
B2

B2 must be shown before the professional licence is issued. Accepted certificates and any nursing-German test are set by each Land authority (Goethe says an official exam or a test of technical nursing German may be required).

SourceVérifié le 29 oct. 2026

German, CEFR B1 (visa for adaptation course)

niveau CECRL
B1

Baden-Wuerttemberg assumes B1 for a residence permit to do an adaptation course from abroad; other Laender may differ.

SourceVérifié le 29 oct. 2026

Examen d’autorisation

Kenntnisprüfung (knowledge test)

  • Land authority with a nursing school and practice setting
  • Oral part about 45 min plus practical part about 180 min with real or simulated patients, based on the German state exam
  • Tentatives: Oral part and each care situation can be repeated once
SourceVérifié le 29 oct. 2026

Anpassungslehrgang (adaptation course, alternative)

  • Hospitals, care homes or outpatient services
  • Supervised placements, on average 8-11 months, ending in a closing conversation per placement
SourceVérifié le 29 oct. 2026

Vos étapes

Les étapes s’affichent en anglais jusqu’à la vérification de notre traduction.

  1. Learn German to B1 (visa) and B2 (licence)
  2. Apply for recognition to the Land authority (or employer uses the accelerated skilled-worker procedure)
  3. Receive the notice listing differences; choose Kenntnisprüfung or adaptation course (or waive the equivalence check)
  4. Get a visa for recognition and move, often as a nursing assistant
  5. Pass the Kenntnisprüfung or finish the 8-11 month adaptation course
  6. Show B2, criminal record and health certificates; receive the licence as Pflegefachfrau/Pflegefachmann

Changements récents

  • : New recognition procedure under the Nursing Professions Act (PflBG) for new applications; option to waive the equivalence check. · Source
  • : Residence permits for nursing auxiliary work available to recognised nursing assistants. · Source
  • : Destatis: about 32,000 nursing qualifications recognised in 2025, the most of any profession; India among the top five training countries overall. · Source

Recognition fees vary by Land and no single official amount was found, so none is quoted. Processing: authority must decide within four months of a complete file (Baden-Wuerttemberg).

Informations générales issues de sources officielles, pas un conseil juridique ou d’immigration.