What happens,
and when.

Diploma, employment references, language certificate, passport and, where required, sworn translations. The nurse sees to this herself — we obtain no documents and act for nobody before an authority.

She then registers on the candidate portal and photographs the documents with her phone. No scanner is needed.

The analysis reads the documents, checks whether the set is complete and flags anything that does not hold together: a name that differs, an impossible date, an illegible page. A person then confirms the result and sets the status.

The status says what we have seen — not whether a qualification will be recognised. That is for the Ministère de la Santé alone to decide. This step takes a few days.

The application for recognition of the diploma goes to the competent service of the Ministère de la Santé, filed by the nurse herself. We play no part in it and can say nothing about how far the procedure has got.

Once the decision has been issued, the nurse may upload it to her profile. The profile then shows the status “recognition submitted”.

Residence permit, housing, registration with the commune, social security. Much of this runs in parallel and blocks itself when the order is wrong.

EU citizens need only the declaration of arrival at their commune. Nationals of third countries apply for the residence authorisation from abroad. Both happen without us.

The employer decides, concludes the contract and notifies the start of employment. We learn nothing of it and bill nothing on it — our fee falls due when a dossier is unlocked, not when somebody is hired.