Diplomas and driving licence

Having your Indian diploma evaluated, working in a protected profession and exchanging your driving licence.

Employers and schools sometimes want to know what an Indian diploma is worth in the Netherlands. You request this credential evaluation through IDW, the joint service of Nuffic and SBB. For professions such as doctor, nurse, dentist or physiotherapist, registration in the BIG register is also compulsory, with a separate assessment for foreign diplomas.

With an Indian driving licence you may keep driving for a limited time after registering in the Netherlands. Exchanging it for a Dutch licence is generally only possible if you have the 30% ruling; otherwise you take the theory and practical tests again at the CBR. The RDW gives the current rules.

Useful links

• IDW idw.nl
  Request a credential evaluation.
• Nuffic nuffic.nl
  Explains the Indian education system and the value of diplomas.
• BIG-register bigregister.nl
  Registration for healthcare professions with a foreign diploma.
• RDW rdw.nl
  Driving with and exchanging a foreign licence.
• CBR cbr.nl
  Theory and practical driving tests.