Settling in Germany

Step-by-step guides to German bureaucracy

Every official task a newcomer faces — explained in plain English, with the exact documents to bring and whether you can do it online. Pick a task, then your city for the local details.

初到德国时

逐步安顿下来时

Guides by city

German letters, read for you

Photograph an official letter and TiG Desk tells you who sent it, what you have to do and by when — then keeps the document on your phone and reminds you before the deadline. Free, and it works without an account.

Download on the App Store →What else you need on arrival →

Filling the form on a computer? TiG Pilot explains every German field while you fill it, in your browser.

📷Photograph a letter — sender, deadline and what to do
🗂️Every document in one place, kept on your phone
⏰Reminders before a Frist, not after it
🇩🇪German terms shown alongside, because that is what the clerk says

Step-by-step guides to German bureaucracy

初到德国时

住址登记

税号与税级

开设银行账户

办理医疗保险

申请居留许可

找房子

手机卡 / 手机合同

延长居留许可

逐步安顿下来时

换领驾照

申领儿童金

公共交通月票

登记自由职业

报个人所得税

车辆登记

申请父母金

申请住房补贴

找幼儿园 / 托儿所（Kita）

为孩子办理入学

申请德国国籍（入籍）

申请永久居留（定居许可）

上驾校考德国驾照

Guides by city

Berlin

Munich

Hamburg

Frankfurt

Cologne

Düsseldorf

Stuttgart

Leipzig

Dortmund

Essen

Bremen

Dresden

Hannover

Nuremberg

Bonn

Mannheim

Karlsruhe

Münster

Aachen

Mainz

Augsburg

Wiesbaden

Bielefeld

Bochum

Wuppertal

Freiburg

Heidelberg

Darmstadt

Regensburg

Würzburg

Kiel

Lübeck

Potsdam

Saarbrücken

Rostock

Erfurt

Jena

Halle (Saale)

Magdeburg

Chemnitz

Braunschweig

Osnabrück

Kassel

Koblenz

German letters, read for you