Aspects of daily life
Ethnic German Repatriates
You would like to come to Germany as an ethnic German repatriate. What requirements do you have to comply with? What are the first steps to be dealt with? In the following sections you can find information on this and how you can become integrated quickly.
Note: The range of general information and procedure descriptions offered in German however is more extensive than that offered in English. At present you will find the following subjects in English: Vehicles, Trading Licence, Studying, Moving House, Business Start-Up, Immigration.
Ethnic German repatriates are German nationals from the successor states of the former Soviet Union and the other former Eastern-European states, who are justified in staying in Germany due to a special admission procedure.
The admission of persons, who even today are still affected by the outcome of the Second World War and its adverse effects, is regulated in the Federal Law on Expelled Persons (Bundesvertriebenengesetz = BVFG).
To the procedures and services:
- Accreditation of the Higher Education Admission Authorisation (foreign school-leaving Certificates)
- Akademische Grade, Titel und Bezeichnungen sowie Gradumwandlungen bei anerkannten Spätaussiedlern
- Arbeitslosengeld II beantragen
- Ausländische Schulabschlüsse (Zeugnisse) - Anerkennung beantragen
- Beglaubigung ausländischer öffentlicher Urkunden zur Verwendung in Deutschland
- Berufseinstiegsjahr (BEJ) - Aufnahme beantragen
- Berufsvorbereitungsjahr (BVJ) - Teilnahme anmelden
- Einreise und erster Wohnort
- Führerschein (ausländisch) - Umtausch beantragen
- Integrationskurse für Spätaussiedler - anmelden
- Kinderreisepass erstmalig beantragen
- Klärung des Rentenversicherungskontos bei Spätaussiedlern
- Personalausweis erstmalig beantragen
- Registering (new place of residence)
- Reisepass beantragen
- Staatsangehörigkeitsausweis beantragen
- Subsequent entry of family members (Foreigners) - Residence permit application
- Vorqualifizierungsjahr Arbeit/Beruf (VAB) - Teilnahme anmelden
- Zeugnisbewertungen von ausländischen Hochschulqualifikationen