Residence Permit

The Foreigners' Registration Office of the City of Regensburg usually requires the following documents for the issuance of a residence permit:

• "Application for a Temporary Residence Permit" (Extension: "Application for extension of a temporary residence permit"; forms available at the Foreigners' Registration Office)
• valid passport
• biometric passport photo
• letter of admission or certificate of enrollment from the university
• proof of health insurance
• proof of subsistence (992 € per month)
• "Housing Provider Confirmation" / "Wohnungsgeberbestätigung" (forms available at the Foreigners' Registration Office)
• If applicable, employment contract as a visiting researcher

Fee

Foreigners with German scholarships: free of charge
Participants in exchange programs of Regensburg universities: 100 €
Initial grant: 100 €
Renewal: 80 €

Please always keep the following points in mind for your residence permit:

• The purpose of your stay: This explicitly refers to the subject and the university at which you are studying. This means that if you change the subject or from a study-preparatory German course to the subject study, a change of university takes place or you end your studies, your residence permit usually automatically becomes invalid, no matter what date is written on it! You must therefore go to the Foreigners' Registration Office in good time before you change or end your studies and have it changed.

If you do not, your stay in Regensburg is illegal!

• The period of validity: If you go to the Foreigners' Registration Office only after your residence permit has expired, you are usually in Germany illegally until the new (electronic) residence title is issued (this takes about 4 weeks).

• The (electronic) residence permit at the Foreigners' Registration Office of the City of Regensburg is issued for at least one year. Applicants must therefore be able to prove financing for this period - in the form of a declaration of commitment or a sufficient credit balance in a German bank account.

• If you submit your application to the Foreigners' Registration Office late, serious consequences under immigration and criminal law may follow. It is possible that you will be sentenced to a fine or imprisonment for illegal residence. It is also possible that you will no longer receive a residence permit and will have to leave Germany.

For the issuance of a residence permit for non-EU citizens, it is usually necessary to prove that you have sufficient means to secure your livelihood.

For orientation, you can assume that sufficient means are available if you can prove that you have 992,- Euro per month at your disposal.

You can prove that you have secured this livelihood, for example, by:

• Presentation of a declaration of commitment according to § 68 Residence Act* or
• Proof of corresponding scholarships from German public funds or scholarships from a funding organization recognized in Germany or
• Scholarships from public funds of the country of origin, if the Federal Foreign Office, the German Academic Exchange Service or German scholarship organizations were involved in the placement.
• Proof of funding by submission of bank statements or payment of a security deposit into a blocked account. For one year, at least 11.904 EUR must be proven (992 EUR per month).

*A declaration of commitment in accordance with Section 68 of the Residence Act can be submitted, for example, by your parents or siblings, but also by other third parties at a German mission abroad or at the Foreigners' Registration Office at their place of residence in Germany. The citizen thereby assumes a guarantee for your livelihood and must in principle prove his financial capacity when submitting the declaration of commitment.

The Foreigners' Registration Office works closely with the Regensburg universities.

At the beginning of the semester, the tutors of the orientation program Startklar will help you with the formalities.

If you have general questions about the law on foreigners, you can contact Ms. Wunderlich, or you can go directly to the foreigners authority responsible for you.

If you change your field of study or university, this will affect your residence permit!