Apply for a residence permit to look for a job after completing your studies
Description
As a graduate of a German university, you have a legal right to obtain a residence permit to look for a job.
The residence permit will be issued to you for a maximum of 18 months directly after your studies. If this maximum period was not used when it was first issued, the residence permit may be extended accordingly. However, if you cannot find a job during these 18 months, an extension is excluded and you are obliged to leave Germany.
This residence permit allows gainful employment without restriction.
You are in possession of a residence permit for the purpose of looking for a job after successful studies in Germany. The maximum period of 18 months has not yet been exhausted.
In addition, you meet the general requirements for granting a residence permit. These are in particular:
- a secure livelihood
- a clarified identity
- Possession of a valid national passport.
- Valid National Passport,
- proof of secure livelihood (e.g. employment contract and payslips, bank statements, submission of a declaration of commitment by third parties),
- proof of health insurance,
- Certificate of completion, certificate or certificate from your university on the successful completion of your studies,
- 1 current biometric photo,
- Please ask the immigration office responsible for you whether you need to submit further documents.
Budget: Fee: EUR 93,00 - 96,00
Application before the expiry of the current residence permit. An interview 4 to 6 weeks before the previous residence permit expires is recommended.
About 5 to 6 weeks, depending on the amount of work in the local immigration office.
- Objection
Detailed information on how to lodge an objection can be found in the decision rejecting your application.
- Administrative court action
Please contact the competent immigration authority.
- Forms: application for a residence permit
- Online procedure possible: no
- Written form required: no
- Personal appearance required: yes
You can only apply for an extension of a residence permit in person at the immigration authority responsible for your place of residence.
- You submit the required documents in the original and pay the application fee.
- The Foreigners' Registration Office checks whether the conditions for grant are met.
- If all requirements are met, the Foreigners' Registration Office will record your biometric data (photo, fingerprints) and order the electronic residence permit (eAT) from Bundesdruckerei GmbH.
- As soon as the eAT is completed, it will be handed over to you by the Foreigners' Registration Office.
§ 20 paragraph 3 no. 1 and paragraph 4 sentence 2 in conjunction with § 8 act on the residence, gainful employment and integration of foreigners in the Federal territory (Residence Act - AufenthG)
You can find the legal bases on the Internet under Laws on the Internet
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/aufenthg_2004/__20.html
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/aufenthg_2004/__8.html
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
District Office Harburg
Fachamt Einwohnerwesen
Harburg Town Hall Square 1
21073 Hamburg, Germany
E-mail: bezirksamt@harburg.hamburg.de
fax: 040 427907600
Phone: +49 40 428713849
Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community
20.11.2020
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06122 Halle (Saale)
06100 Halle (Saale)
Am Stadion 6, cultural center
- Monday, 08:00 to 15:00:
(Team Infothek / Team Asylum and Humanitarian Residence / Team Labor Market and Training - each without appointment; Team Duldung and Document Issuance with appointment) - Tuesday, 08:00 to 18:00:
(Team Infothek / Team Asylum and Humanitarian Residence / Team Labor Market and Training - each without appointment; Team Duldung and Document Issuance with appointment) - Wednesday, 08:00 to 15:00
(only document issue with appointment) - Thursday, 08:00 to 15:00
(Team Infothek / Team Asylum and Humanitarian Residence / Team Labor Market and Training - each without appointment; Team Duldung and Document Issuance with appointment)
Am Stadion 5
Individual appointments will continue to take place on the premises of the Foreigners' Registration Office, Am Stadion 5, 06122 Halle (Saale). Please pay attention to the information in your appointment.
Appointments with the Duldung team and the issuing of documents are only possible by prior appointment.
Application for the issue/extension of a temporary residence permit
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