This is probably very much in the realm of speculation, but does anyone have an opinion of whether the digital vaccination certificate for the COVPASS app that is soon going to be rolled out could also be issued by showing proof of a vaccination performed outside of Germany (with an EU-approved vaccine, of course)? The way I understand the process after reading some articles is that participating pharmacies could initiate and request the issuance of an electronic certificate that could be stored in the app upon being shown proof of vaccination, which for vaccinations having been given in Germany over the past few months would typically be the yellow vaccine booklet.

The scenario I'm wondering about is that as a dual citizen living in the US and having been vaccinated here, I plan to visit family in Germany this summer for the first time since the pandemic started. For immigration and quarantine purposes, it seems the CDC card I have (as well as a state-issued certificate) would be fine to verify my vaccination status so that I would not have to quarantine and generally can do anything a person living in Germany who has tested negative or recovered could do. However, while I expect / hope that any person performing checks at the airport would be familiar with the CDC card, I'm much more doubtful about it being accepted as proof of vaccination (when required) in smaller towns, especially given that right now the only people carrying such cards in Germany would mostly be expats / dual citizens such as myself due to the entry restrictions for non-EU citizens. Being able to obtain a COVPASS digital certificate would certainly seem to make things easier.

If this is indeed possible (i.e. if there isn't a general requirement that the vaccination had to have been performed in Germany, rather than "just" a requirement that the pharmacy needs to be able to verify that the vaccination with a EU-approved vaccines has occurred), I guess it might be best to look for participating pharmacies at airport locations after this begins to roll out next week.