Applying online for registration as a paramedic

Registration

Exciting changes are coming to make it easier to apply for registration online. The process will be easier, faster, and more secure.

A new online application form along with a new Ahpra portal for applicants and practitioners, and a new secure online ID verification will be progressively coming online from 17 March 2025.

Online applications

If you start a new online application, you must complete and submit it by midnight on Tuesday 11 March 2025. Online applications started and not submitted by that time, will not be transferred to the new system when it launches. All information in the application will be deleted.

Hardcopy/PDF applications

You can continue to use the forms on this page to apply for registration. However, we may need to follow up with you after the new online form is launched if we need you to provide any additional information or take any extra steps, such as verifying your ID online.

Getting ready to apply using the new online application form

You may choose to hold off applying until after the new online form is launched. The questions are similar and the information we need you to provide hasn’t changed. This means you can download and use a current hard copy form as a guide to prepare your online application.

Important: If you have saved an older version of a form onto your system, do not use that as a guide or submit it as an application, we are only able to accept the version of each form on this page.

A detailed explanation of the registration process can be found on the Ahpra website.

Ahpra cannot start processing your application until you have completed your application form, provided all required supporting documents and paid the one-off application fee and your annual registration fee.

Your identity documents must be certified as true copies of original documents and state the photograph on photographic documentation (e.g. licence or passport) is a true likeness of the applicant. You do not need to provide certified copies of your other supporting documents unless you are asked by Ahpra to do so. Ahpra may request the documents that you upload with your online application to be provided in certified hard copy via post at any time.

See more information on the documents you may need to upload for registration.

Find out how to apply for registration

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How to start your application

Create an Ahpra online services account by clicking the 'Apply for registration' button below. You can save and resume your application at any time.

You must ensure that the email address you use is only accessible by you and must not be shared between another applicant or currently registered practitioner. We will also use this email address to contact you if we require further information to support your application.

You must complete the application form yourself online. No one else may complete your application for you.

You can track the progress of your application through your Ahpra online services account.

Apply for registration

Online upload

In response to COVID-19, applicants and registrants can now send applications, forms and supporting documents to Ahpra online instead of sending us these documents via hardcopy mail. See Online Upload.

Applicants who already have an Ahpra online services login

If you already hold registration in another profession and are applying for registration as a paramedic, you should log in with your existing Ahpra online services login and then begin the application process.