Residence and employment visas for Germany

Despite having its own dedicated visas and permits section, the TT chat forum is not the best place for getting accurate and up-to-date info about such things. Instead you are better off going to either an official government website, a private website dedicated to such information, or asking in person at your local immigration office, embassy, or consulate.

Government websites:

• US Consulates Germany - Visa information - info for US citizens and other nationalities coming to Germany
  
• US Mission to Germany - residence / work permit for Germany - similar to above
  
• German Embassy London - lots of info regards visas for Germany, all nationalities
  

Private websites:

• Germany visas and immigration - from "workpermit.com"
  

Immigration offices in Germany:

• München KVR, Ruppertstraße 19, 80466 Munich, Tel. 089 23396010
  
• Berlin Ausländerbehörde, Friedrich-Krause-Ufer 24, 13353 Berlin, Tel.: +49 (0) 30 902690
  
• Frankfurt Ausländerbehörde, Mainzer Landstraße 323, 60326 Frankfurt am Main, Tel.: 069 21244422
  
• Other city info can be found with Google.
  

Embassies and consulates in Germany:

• American:
  
  
  • US Embassy Berlin, Neustädtische Kirchstr. 4-5, 10117 Berlin, Tel. +49 (0)30 2385174
    
  • US Consulate Düsseldorf, Willi - Becker - Allee 10, 40227 Düsseldorf, Tel.: (0211) 7888927
    
  • US Consulate Frankfurt, Gießener Str. 30, 60435 Frankfurt am Main, Tel.: (069) 75350
    
  • US Consulate Hamburg
    
  • US Consulate Leipzig
    
  • US Consulate Munich
    
  
  
• British:
  
  
  • Munich Consulate-General, Königinstraße 5, Lehel, 80539 Munich, Tel. +49 (0) 89 28880
    
  • British Embassy Berlin, Wilhelmstr. 70-71, 10117 Berlin, Tel. +49 (0) 30 204570
    
  • British Consulate Düsseldorf, Yorckstrasse 19, 40476 Düsseldorf, Tel. +49 (0)211 94480
    
  • Frankfurt, Hamburg, Stuttgart - British consulates closed in 2005
    
  
  

Despite the wealth of comprehensive information available via the above sources, if you absolutely must post an immigration related question to the TT forum then make sure you use the search function first. If there is an existing topic that is directly related to your query, post a reply. If no related topic exists, then start a new topic.

When making a post to TT, be sure to make your post as concise as possible. Keep the question short and to the point. Do not write a rambling essay about your complete life history - few people will be bothered to read such missives, let alone answer them.

So, in summary, what you should do next is as follows:

• (1) Contact the relevant embassy or immigration office
  
• (2) Search the websites dedicated to immigration topics
  
• (3) Search TT for existing information
  
• (4) If, and only if, your question is still unanswered, make a concise post to TT. We will probably delete it anyway because, chances are, 1,2, or 3 above would already answer your question.
  

As there always have been questions what type of documents/visas are needed for travelling from country A to country B, but being a national of country C and having a residency in country D, noone has to puzzle anymore what he/she needs.

Just a click away is the: IATA - Travel Centre

Type in some information of your trip and you get to know what visa requirements you have to meet.

Particularly for UK-peeps, I cannot recommend the UK consulate in Düsseldorf enough. My experience has been that they are extremely friendly and helpful people and often better informed about German law than various German Behörde (I have been in the situation a couple of times where Ive had to get a German Beamter to ring the Bavarian courts to confirm what the consulate told me).

In dealing with the Ausländerbehörde its well worth being able to speak German and being prepared to shout very loudly at them if they try to play silly buggers. After a few hours dealing with Turkish Grandmothers in broken German they tend to get into a "foreigners are morons" groove - Its worth shaking them out of it again.

andy M

For the latest info try the German Foreign Office: auswaertiges-amt.de

All you could possibly need is here - and in English.

Also, a good site for people looking to get a self-employment visa can be found here:

4dayvisa.tumblr.com

Extremely thorough and tells you how to apply in 4 days or less.

Barrie

Things have changed in the consulate / embassy scene: Hamburg has now closed and Berlin is responsible for most of Northern Germany.
There are TWO locations in Berlin: the old one on Clayallee and one next to the Brandenburg gate. Read the websites so you know which one applies to you, or else prepare for a long bus ride... (knowing smile: happened last week)

Hi

I hope someone could read this and help me. Next Monday I am planning to send my application for the visa for working purpose to the Embassy of Germany.

My employer (a very big international company) prepared one letter for me, which described my qualifications and why I am matching the requirement of the position.

However, I noticed one thing, it seems that they have typed incorrectly my university's name, the name listed in the letter is actually the name of another university in the same city (the names of these two universities are very similar), could anyone comment if this is a problem?

Should I ask them to correct it and send me again? Because the time for starting the job is running out, will this be a problem if I am just send this version to the embassy for the application?

Could anyone who have the similar experience give some advices?

Thanks a lot!

UT

Hallo All,

I am spouse of German citizen and I was working before in a company but now I am unemployed and searching for new job but due to the financial crisis it is taking time.

My residence n work permit is valid till February 2010 (Spouse residence permit). And after that I have to extend.
My question is:

1. Will I get extension easily or I have to show a job or sufficient money?
2. As my wife n me both are not working now so do u think it will be a problem for extension?

I hope for a reply

Regards

Aryan