Get your Hamburg Relocation Guide
You plan to move to Hamburg? And you need to keep moving cost at bay? You are willing to manage the relocation on your own based on relevant and reliable information about what and how to do?
Get yourself reliable and relevant guidance to your move to Hamburg!
180 days access to information on processes, template support, tips where to search and how to introduce yourself, to-do lists, links to reserve appointments, information on childcare and schooling, hints to the Hamburg expat community
from 150,- EUR
180 days access
What the guide will contain - scroll down for details:
SEARCH A JOB
This part contains
- Understand what you apply for (professions in Germany)
- Understanding the job requirements
- Links to the best job portals
- Tips on the structure and content of a CV for German HR departments
- Tips on how to apply from abroad
- Basic knowledge about the work permits you need to qualify for
INITIATE YOUR IMMIGRATION PROCESS
- Understanding your visa category and the implications
- Tips on how to best go about your application for a work permit, in conjunction with your family reunion if applicable
- Template completion guide, VIDEX explained
- Generally neccesary documents
- How to reserve an appointment
ORGANIZE REMOVALS
- Insight into furnished and unfurnished apartments
- How does an international move proceed
- Connect to our logistics partner for quotes
SECURE A TEMPORARY STAY
- Why would you need a temporary stay?
- Legalities around furnished temporary living space
- Requirements for Immigration & work: a move-in confirmation that allows registration issued by the landlord
- Realtor websites to search for rooms and apartments
- Tips for the search
- Evaluation of the location: Hamburg district profiles & public transport
- Lease Agreement
- Security deposit and rules for repayment
- Move-in & Handover
- Utilities and Internet
MANAGE BUREAUCRACY
- Registering: the procedure in Hamburg, where to reserve an appointment, implications for tax id and public broadcasting, template explanations
- Basics on German taxes
- Banks in Hamburg
- Getting a German credit rating (enormously helpful for the home search) - the SCHUFA
- Buying a sim card
- Buy German healthcare plan: the difference between public and private healthcare, the social security system and your payroll
- Converting a driving license: understand the requirements, the procedure, where to reserve an appointment, where to do an emergency course, where to take an eyesight test etc.
- Dog registration
- Getting a liability insurance covering damages to rented property
