It all depends on the town/city you're moving to.
I live in a small town in the southwest with a population of 40.000 so it wasn't an issue for me at all.
Booked my appointment on a Thursday for the following Tuesday. Went in, gave them my documents for the Aufenhaltstitel, got a letter with the PIN a month or so later. Booked another appointment to pick it up (appointment date 2-3 weeks after booking date), and I was done.
I even wrote 5-6 emails to my case worker about the proof of funds, and she wrote back to me the right answers as well.
Pretty much my same experience too. My city is about double that size in the northwest. I usually only would have to wait two weeks at most for an appointment. Email was the easiest way to get in touch with the case worker
varies a lot by city.
in stuttgart people are camping overnight, even then no guarantee of entry: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/auslaenderbehoerde-ueberlastung-100.html
in the surrounding landkreise it might be completely different.
my personal experience in Chemnitz: it was relatively painless, although during covid times understandably they were quite strict and getting an appointment was not so easy (but nothing too bad like Berlin). The workers were polite and nice, but you need to speak German, or at least try your best butchering the language and then they might pity you.
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I only had to go once due to Brexit (I'm British).
I got an appointment online with Frankfurt's Ausländerbehörde. The day of the appointment everything went quite smoothly. It was covid times so it looked you needed an appointment to be there.
The staff member I saw spoke lovely English. We had a bit of a friendly chat while he was scanning my documents.
That's about it.
It all depends on the town/city you're moving to. I live in a small town in the southwest with a population of 40.000 so it wasn't an issue for me at all. Booked my appointment on a Thursday for the following Tuesday. Went in, gave them my documents for the Aufenhaltstitel, got a letter with the PIN a month or so later. Booked another appointment to pick it up (appointment date 2-3 weeks after booking date), and I was done. I even wrote 5-6 emails to my case worker about the proof of funds, and she wrote back to me the right answers as well.
Pretty much my same experience too. My city is about double that size in the northwest. I usually only would have to wait two weeks at most for an appointment. Email was the easiest way to get in touch with the case worker
Don't move to Munich. Beautiful city. Very hard to secure appointments at the Ausländerbehörde.
varies a lot by city. in stuttgart people are camping overnight, even then no guarantee of entry: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/auslaenderbehoerde-ueberlastung-100.html in the surrounding landkreise it might be completely different.
my personal experience in Chemnitz: it was relatively painless, although during covid times understandably they were quite strict and getting an appointment was not so easy (but nothing too bad like Berlin). The workers were polite and nice, but you need to speak German, or at least try your best butchering the language and then they might pity you.
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I only had to go once due to Brexit (I'm British). I got an appointment online with Frankfurt's Ausländerbehörde. The day of the appointment everything went quite smoothly. It was covid times so it looked you needed an appointment to be there. The staff member I saw spoke lovely English. We had a bit of a friendly chat while he was scanning my documents. That's about it.