You got in. Now comes the paperwork.
Your university tells you how to enrol. Nobody walks you through the blocked account, the visa appointment, or the eight weeks after you land. That stretch — everything after the admission letter — is what we prepare with you, in order, so nothing sits waiting on a document you didn't know about.
One path, three stages.
Before you apply
APS, uni-assist, degree recognition, language proof. We go through what the mission responsible for you publishes — and show you where each requirement is written down, so you can check it yourself.
Money proof & visa
Blocked account or a formal sponsorship, the € 11,904 question, the appointment date — and a document folder assembled the way the mission's own checklist sets it out.
The first eight weeks
Health insurance, Anmeldung, tax ID, bank account, room search, enrolment, the Ausländerbehörde appointment — prepared in the order that keeps them from blocking each other.
We prepare and coordinate — we don't decide. Admission is your university's decision, the visa is the German mission's, the residence permit is the immigration office's, and requirements change without notice. Nothing here is legal advice; advice on your individual case comes from an immigration lawyer, whom we arrange on request.
Five things nobody mentions until it's late.
- The blocked account is usually step one of two: an account opened at home covers the visa application, but the Ausländerbehörde will in most cases want a German account after you land.
- The bank's verification call goes to a German mobile number — so the SIM card is not a week-three errand.
- Public student health insurance ends at 30. Turn 30 mid-degree and your monthly cost changes category, not just amount.
- 140 working days a year is a hard ceiling, and it is counted per calendar year — not per semester.
- Roughly one student in ten gets a Studierendenwerk room. Plan for the private market from day one.
Useful on their own.
Graduating soon — or coming to work instead?
After your degree the route changes: job search, recognition, an employment contract. That path has its own preparation — and everything work-related stays free of charge for you, because German law tightly restricts what anyone may charge a jobseeker.