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If you wish to reside permanently in Belgium and exercise a healthcare profession, you first have to request recognition or have your diploma declared to be equivalent.
Take note: If you wish to temporarily or occasionally exercise a healthcare profession in Belgium, you frst have to apply for permission. You have to apply using a form form the the Federal Public Service Health and send it to visa@health.fgov.be.
This applies to the following professions:
What you have to do depends on whether or not your diploma comes from inside or outside the European Economic Area.
Your diploma | Your nationality | What do you have to do? |
---|---|---|
from the European Economic Area (EEA)** | EEA* | Request recognition from the Agency for Care and Health |
non-EEA | ||
outside the European Economic Area (EEA)**, but deemed equivalent in an EEA country | EEA* | |
Outside the European Economic Area (EEA)** | EEA | |
non-EEA | ||
South Africa | South-African |
South Africans with a South African basic diploma as a physician can request recognition of it from the Agency for Care and Health. |
* Your nationality is from the EEA in the following cases:
** The European Economic Area is composed of the 27 Member States of the European Union and Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
Do you wish to exercise one of these healthcare professions abroad?
And do you have a Belgian diploma for that healthcare profession?
Call +32 2 553 1700, the number of the Government of Flanders, any working day from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. or send an e-mail.