Immigration office

All non-EU citizens and individuals who intend to stay in Germany for more than three months have to apply for a residence permit at the Immigration Office (Ausländerbehörde Jena).

The City of Jena's Immigration Authority has changed its processing workflows. To shorten waiting times for appointments and residence permits all applicants will be processed without a personal appointment. Therefore booking an appointment for a personal interview will not be possible any longer for this reason.

Accordingly, please send the corresponding application forms and all documents required (see below) either by post (Stadt Jena, Ausländerbehörde, Löbdergraben 12, 07743 Jena) or in an electronic format via email (to antrag-abh@jena.de). Please do not send any original document. For further information and blank forms, please go to the website of the City of Jena and select the permit you need.

If there are any additional question, you will be contacted directly. To allow this, please make certain that you will be available for answering any question by post, email or telephone. If a personal interview is required after the final review of your application, you will receive an appointment from the Foreigners’ Office at short notice.

Below you will find an overview of which documents are required for the initial application and for the extension of the two residence titles:

Residence permit for the purpose of research

Completed application form for first registration or for an extension
Passport
Proof of accommodation (e.g. rental contract, in the case of a sub-tenancy contract also a declaration of consent by the owner)
Proof of health insurance
Proof of financing (e.g. employment contract, blocked account, bank statements for the last two months)
Hosting Agreement (you can obtain this either from the Human Resources Department of your research institution or, if you do not have an employment contract, from the Graduate Academy)
Signed instruction sheet
Declaration of consent to the storage and use of your e-mail address and telephone number (necessary when applying for a residence permit for the first time)

Residence permit for the purpose of study

Completed application form for first registration or for an extension
Passport
Proof of accommodation (e.g. tenancy agreement, in the case of subtenancy agreement also declaration of consent by the owner)
Proof of health insurance
Certificate of doctoral status for the Immigration Office (this document can be found in doc-in)
Proof of financing (e.g. proof of scholarship, blocked account, bank statements for the last two months)
Declaration on financing your studies (in case of self-funding or funding by parents or other persons)
Signed instruction sheet
Declaration of consent to the storage and use of your e-mail address and telephone number (necessary when applying for a residence permit for the first time)