Northline Check eligibility

The process

Nine months, and where they go.

Four phases, who does what in each, the documents that belong to it, and the waiting times we actually see. Written down so you can hold us to it, and so you can tell when something has gone quiet that should not have.

Shortest we have seen
3 months · Dubai
Longest
21 months · Ontario
Median, all destinations
8.5 months
Updates
Every fortnight, in writing

Eligibility and offer

2–6 weeks

We work out where you can actually go, then put you in front of employers who can lawfully hire you. Nothing here costs you anything and nothing is binding.

You
Complete the eligibility check, then send your CV, your council registration certificate and your degree.
Northline
Verify your registration directly with the issuing council and confirm which destinations are open to you today.
Employer
Shortlist, then interview by video. Usually one interview of about forty minutes; occasionally a second with a clinical educator.
Northline
Read the contract with you line by line before you sign anything, including the clause about leaving early.

Documents in this phase

  • Passport, valid two years or more
  • Council registration certificate
  • Degree parchment and transcripts
  • CV in reverse chronology
  • Two clinical references

Language and documents

3–6 weeks, longer if you retake

The stage that stalls most people. It is administrative, unglamorous, and it decides your start date more than anything else on this page.

You
Sit IELTS or OET, or start your German course. Book early: test slots go three to six weeks out.
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Order primary-source verification and chase every issuing body weekly. You get the chase log, not a summary.
You
Request police clearance from every country you have lived in for six months or more. Do this last: it expires.
Employer
Hold the post, in writing, so you are not guessing whether it still exists.

Documents in this phase

  • IELTS Academic or OET certificate
  • German B1 certificate, if applicable
  • Police clearance, each country
  • Verification of employment, each employer
  • Immunisation and occupational health record

Licensing

4–9 months

The regulator decides. Not us, not the employer, not the hospital chief executive who wants you next month. This is the part nobody can speed up — only keep from stopping.

Northline
Submit the registration application and pay the fee. You never pay it, and it is never deducted later.
Regulator
Assess. NMBI twelve to sixteen weeks. AHPRA twelve to twenty. NNAS twenty to thirty-six. German Anerkennung sixteen to twenty-eight.
You
Respond to any request for further evidence within seven days. A slow reply here costs whole months, not days.
Northline
Tell you where it is every fortnight, in writing, even when there is nothing new to report.

Documents in this phase

  • Registration application
  • Syllabus, hours and clinical placement evidence
  • Certificate of good standing
  • Adaptation or examination booking, if required

Visa and relocation

2–4 weeks after the licence

Permits, flights, a bed for the first month, a bank account and a payroll number. The part that feels like moving rather than paperwork.

Employer
Apply for the work permit or nomination and pay the fee.
You
Attend the visa appointment and give biometrics. We book it and send you the exact checklist for your embassy.
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Book flights, confirm the first month of accommodation, and brief you on tax, banking and what your first payslip will actually say.
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Call you in week one, week four and month three. Ngozi Eze does this and she does not forget.

Documents in this phase

  • Work permit or nomination
  • Visa vignette or eVisa
  • Accommodation confirmation
  • First-month budget
  • Payroll and bank account checklist
A desk seen from above: two hands resting on a registration form, a dark green passport, a pen and a cup of tea.
Phase two is a desk, a passport and eleven letters that have to arrive.

When it goes wrong

Four ways this stalls, and what we do.

  • A former employer will not answer.

    The most common cause of a stalled file, and the least interesting. We escalate to the HR director by name at week three, and if that fails we ask the regulator to accept a sworn affidavit instead. It works about half the time.

  • You do not get the language score.

    Roughly one in five people retake. We pay for the second sitting on any role where the employer will not, we tell the employer the honest reason, and in four years no employer has withdrawn a post because of it.

  • The regulator asks for more evidence.

    Normal, not a rejection. You get the request the day it lands with the exact wording of what to send, and we do not let it sit in an inbox for a week.

  • Your life changes.

    People get pregnant, parents get ill, plans change. Tell us. We will pause your file rather than close it, and we have restarted files after two years without asking anyone for a reason.

Start at phase one

Everything here begins with seven questions.

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