How do I get my foreign qualifications to finally count?

You did it. You navigated recognition, bridging, re-credentialing, whatever the maze demanded, and your qualifications finally count here. That is an enormous thing, and it is worth stopping to feel. Most people underestimate how much persistence and swallowed pride it took, so let yourself acknowledge the size of what you pushed through. What you gained is more than a credential. You proved to yourself that you could enter a system stacked against you and not be stopped by it. That resilience is yours now, in a way no exam measures, and it will serve you long after the paperwork is filed and forgotten. You did not just get recognized. You got tougher and more capable in the doing. Now reach back. Find one person still stuck in the maze you just cleared and tell them what you learned, the step that mattered, the wall that was not as solid as it looked. You know the path now. Lighting it for someone behind you is how the hard road you walked becomes worth even more than your own arrival.