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Apply for an exemption from integration course fees

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If you receive social benefits or are in financial need, you can participate in an integration course free of charge under certain conditions. This also applies to employees whose gross income does not exceed a certain amount.

Description

The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) is a higher federal German authority and is responsible, among other things, for exemptions from fees for integration courses.

Under certain conditions, the integration course is free of charge for you. To do this, submit an application to your responsible regional office of the BAMF. Submit the application in good time before the course begins.

You can also submit your application for exemption from fees together with an application for admission to the integration course or an application for one-time admission to repeat 300 teaching units of the integration course.

A retroactive cost exemption for the period prior to your application is not possible.

Procedure

You can apply for the exemption from fees online via the federal administration portal or in writing to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).

An authorized agency can also submit the application for you.

Submit application online:

  • Open the online application on the federal portal verwaltung.bund.de and log in with:
    • the online ID function of your ID card,
    • the electronic residence permit,
    • the eID for EU citizens or
    • using the ELSTER certificate from your online tax office (via BundID)
  • Please upload the required documents as a scan.
  • Submit your application.
  • The regional office of the BAMF is reviewing your application.
  • You will receive a notice by mail or electronically informing you that your application has been approved or denied.

Submit application by mail:

Go to the website of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) and open the application form.

  • You can the form
    • fill out on screen or
    • download and then fill out.
  • Print out the form and sign it.
  • Send the form with the necessary documents by mail to your responsible regional office of the BAMF.
  • The regional office of the BAMF is reviewing your application.
  • You will receive a notice by mail stating whether your application has been approved or rejected.

Deadlines

You must submit the application in good time before the start of the course in order to receive the subsidy.

Legal basis

further information

Technical approval

Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF)

legal remedy

  • Objection
    You can find further information on how to file an appeal in the notice.

  • administrative lawsuit

Stichwörter

  • Hardship case
  • Language skills
  • Reimbursement of integration course costs
  • Costs
  • Regulation on Integration Courses
  • Housing allowance
  • Needyness
  • BamF
  • German exam
  • Exemption from integration course fees
  • German lessons
  • Integration course
  • Basic income support for living expenses
  • DTZ
  • Orientation course
  • Apply for an exemption from fees
  • Language certificate
  • German course
  • Residence Act
  • B1 level
  • German language skills
  • Certificate
  • Social assistance
  • Language course
  • Apply for fee exemption with power of attorney
  • Language level B1
  • Asylum Seekers Benefits Act
  • Unemployment benefit
  • Exemption from fees
  • Cost of integration course
  • Learn language
  • Refund cost contribution
  • obligation to contribute to costs
  • Contribution to costs
  • Language level
  • Liberation
  • GEZ
  • German test