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For nurses moving to Luxembourg

From a foreign diploma to a line on the rota.

CareBridge checks your nursing qualification against Luxembourg requirements, tells you exactly what is missing, and stays with you until your first shift. Free for nurses — the employer pays our fee.

Get an assessment How recognition works

Free for nurses, always Data hosted in Luxembourg We reply within two working days

Your route to Luxembourg

Steps 01 and 02 sit with CareBridge · from 03 the authorities decide

  1. 01

    Dossier

    Diplomas, employment records and language certificates are photographed on a phone and read automatically.

    day 1
  2. 02

    Equivalence

    Your training is compared against Luxembourg requirements. Missing evidence is named, not guessed at.

    days 2–10
  3. 03

    Recognition

    Application to the Ministère de la Santé, fully prepared and tracked.

    authority
  4. 04

    Visa & move

    Residence permit, housing, registration. Employer and nurse see the same status.

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  5. 05

    First shift

    Handover to the employer with a complete dossier and supported onboarding.

    day one
The real bottleneck

Applications are not what is missing. Checked dossiers are.

Nurses from outside the EU often apply with paperwork that is complete at home and still falls short in Luxembourg. What is missing usually surfaces months later, deep inside the recognition procedure.

For the employer that means planning on guesswork. For the nurse it means moving country on hope. Both wait for the same answer and get it too late.

CareBridge moves that answer forward. The check against Luxembourg requirements happens before the first interview, not after it.

See the process in detail
Nurse helping an older woman walk in a care home living area
What Luxembourg is like

A small country with a serious staffing gap

Three things are worth knowing before you decide.

Language decides more than skill

French, German and Luxembourgish are all in daily use, and the mix shifts by region. Residents in care homes often speak Luxembourgish only. Nursing ability rarely fails a candidate here; language often does.

EU or not changes everything

If you hold an EU passport, no visa or work permit applies and recognition is largely automatic. From outside the EU, the route is longer and the paperwork heavier — but it is a defined procedure, not a lottery.

Teams are already international

Portuguese, French, German and Luxembourgish in one shift is ordinary here, not exceptional. You would not be the only newcomer on the ward.

Nurse helping a resident in a wheelchair put on her shoes
What we hold ourselves to
0 € what you pay us, at every stage
11 days target from complete upload to a checked dossier
One status you and the employer see the same progress

The eleven days cover our own review only. Processing times at the authorities are not included and are outside our influence.

Scope and limits

What CareBridge does — and does not

Our role
We prepare applications, check documents for completeness and track the procedure. Diploma recognition, the right to practise and residence permits are decided by the competent authorities alone.
Your data
Documents are processed on servers in Luxembourg. Employers first see your dossier without your name; contact details are released only with your consent.
Automation
The automated analysis produces a proposal, not a decision. A person reads every dossier before it reaches an employer.
Cost
Free for nurses. Employers pay per successful placement. Nobody should ever ask you for money on our behalf.
First step

Tell us what you bring

Training, experience, languages, passport. We reply within two working days with an honest assessment of where you stand.

Get an assessment hello@carebridge.lu