Apply for admission as a late repatriate

You must submit the application for admission as a late repatriate to the Federal Office of Administration from your area of origin. You can also submit the application via a German diplomatic mission abroad or via relatives or other authorised representatives living in Germany.

After you have submitted the application, you will receive a request from the Federal Office of Administration to take a language test. You should definitely comply with this request. The result of the language test is very important for the further processing of your application for admission. The language test will check whether you, as the applicant, can hold a simple conversation on general everyday topics. The language tests are carried out at German diplomatic missions abroad.

The Federal Office of Administration will check whether you fulfil the requirements. If you fulfil the requirements for admission, you will receive a notice of admission from there. Until then, you will have to wait in your country of origin.

After entering the Federal Republic of Germany, ethnic German repatriates and their family members are registered at the Friedland branch office of the Federal Office of Administration. They are then allocated to the federal states. The Federal Office of Administration then issues a certificate which ethnic German repatriates can use as proof with the authorities.