Guides to life in Germany
Papers, housing, work, money and everyday life in Germany: what to do, in which order, with the official sources.
Papers
- German visa (Visum) for Iranian applicants
- Residence permit (Aufenthaltstitel)
- Register your address (Anmeldung)
- Housing confirmation (Wohnungsgeberbestätigung)
- Changing address (Ummeldung)
- Leaving Germany: Abmeldung
- Using the Bürgeramt in Berlin
- Contacting the Ausländerbehörde in Berlin
- Access to an Integrationskurs
- German citizenship through Einbürgerung
- Permanent residence: Niederlassungserlaubnis
- Requesting a Meldebescheinigung
- Taking the Einbürgerungstest
- German Reisepass after naturalisation
- Personalausweis after German citizenship
Asylum
Housing
- Understanding a Mietvertrag
- Rent deposit rules (Mietkaution)
- Understanding SCHUFA and your data
- Subletting a home: Untervermietung
- Applying for a Studentenwohnheim in Berlin
- Setting up Strom und Gas at home
- Internet zu Hause: choosing a connection
- Waste sorting, recycling and Pfand
- Home purchase costs: Kosten beim Hauskauf
- Assessing a mortgage: Baufinanzierung
Money and tax
Health
- Arranging Krankenversicherung in Germany
- Finding a doctor with Arztsuche
- Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung: joining a fund
- Private Krankenversicherung: check eligibility
- Krankenversicherung für Studierende: enrolment
- Zahnarzt: treatment and costs
- Krankenhaus: admission and discharge
- Apotheke und Medikamente: prescriptions
- Haftpflichtversicherung: liability and cover
- Pflegeversicherung: cover and benefits
Benefits
- Kindergeld for Iranian families
- Sozialversicherungsnummer: get your record
- Arbeitslosengeld: eligibility and registration
- Krankengeld: cover during illness
- Wohngeld: help with housing costs
- Elterngeld: apply after birth
- Mutterschaftsgeld: identify the paying body
- Kinderkrankengeld: caring for a sick child
- Rentenversicherung: check your insurance record
Work
- Checking an Arbeitsvertrag before starting
- Reading a Gehaltsabrechnung
- Arbeitszeit: hours, breaks and rest
- Mindestlohn: the applicable hourly minimum
- Gehalt: understand your payslip
- Krankmeldung: report illness correctly
- Urlaubstage: entitlement and approval
- Kündigung durch den Arbeitnehmer: resigning
- Kündigung durch den Arbeitgeber: act promptly
- Lebenslauf: present your experience clearly
- Anschreiben: connect your experience to the role
- Vorstellungsgespräch: prepare for the interview
- Freiberuflichkeit: permission and tax registration
- Gewerbe anmelden: starting a business
- Gewerbesteuer: understand the business tax
- Elternzeit: plan leave with your employer
- Mutterschutz: protection around birth
Study and school
- Studying in Germany: Studium and residence
- Finding Deutschkurse in Berlin
- Studiengebühren: check your university's charges
- Stipendien: find an eligible funding programme
- Deutschzertifikate: choose proof for your purpose
- Kita: voucher and childcare place
- Schulsystem: choosing a school after moving
- Schulferien: plan travel around school dates
Family
Everyday life
- Activating a German SIM-Karte
- Berlin public transport: Nahverkehr tickets
- Emergency numbers (Notrufnummern) in Germany
- Deutsche Telefonnummer: activate and keep a number
- Post: keep letters reaching you after a move
- Führerschein: converting an Iranian licence
- Auto kaufen: contract, condition and registration
- Fahrzeug anmelden: choose the right registration
- Hauptuntersuchung (TÜV): check the due date
- Umweltplakette: check before entering the zone
- Auto nach Deutschland einführen: a car from Iran
- Bußgelder: read the notice and protect deadlines
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