The settlement permit is the residence title without an expiry date. civitas. prepares your application under § 9 AufenthG ready for the authority — guided, in six languages, as a PDF for your immigration authority.
The settlement permit under § 9 AufenthG is granted without a time limit. What a temporary residence permit demands again and again, it no longer demands.
A temporary permit is valid until a set date. The settlement permit has none.
Before every expiry a new application at the immigration authority — a permit without a time limit does not expire.
Your authority's fee for the settlement permit is paid once — there is no renewal fee after that.
You put the form and documents together for this application — no longer anew at every expiry.
You answer guided questions in your language — at the end your application is a PDF ready to submit to your immigration authority.
The check covers six of the nine requirements in § 9 Abs. 2 Satz 1 AufenthG. Nr. 4 to 6 — public security and order, permission to work, and the further permits required for the occupation — are not part of the questions. Free, without registration.
§ 9 Abs. 2 Satz 1 Nr. 1 AufenthG
Have you held a residence permit for five years?
The numbers are those of the law. Whether they are met in your case is decided by your immigration authority alone. civitas. does not carry out any such assessment.
Holding the residence permit for five years.
The livelihood is secured.
At least 60 months of compulsory or voluntary contributions to the statutory pension insurance, or comparable expenditure.
No grounds of public security or order stand in the way. The statute names the severity and type of an offence, the danger posed, the length of residence so far and ties within Germany.
Employment is permitted, where the person is an employee.
Holding the further permits required for the continued exercise of the occupation.
The wording is “sufficient knowledge of the German language”. Under the legal definition in § 2 Abs. 11 AufenthG that is level B1.
Basic knowledge of the legal and social order and of the living conditions in the federal territory.
Sufficient living space for themselves and the family members living with them in a common household.
More of them than most people know.
Nr. 7 and Nr. 8 count as proven where an integration course has been completed successfully. For illness, disability and further cases the law provides its own rules, as it does for spouses, children and earlier periods of residence.
If you do not meet one requirement, that is not automatically a no. Whether an exception applies is decided by your immigration authority; civitas. does not carry out any such assessment.
§ 9 Abs. 2 Sätze 2 bis 6, Abs. 3, Abs. 3a und Abs. 4 AufenthG
You choose your type of application and the matching official form yourself. civitas. takes care of preparing your details in structured form.
You select yourself which title you are applying for and which official form your immigration authority uses. civitas. makes no preselection.
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A guided questionnaire collects your details and proofs: passport, residence title, registration, income, pension insurance, language certificate, living space.
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You receive the completed official form of your immigration authority as a PDF, ready to print, sign and submit.
Completed PDF, ready to print
Start right away — or answer the six questions on § 9 first. Both lead into the same preparation: 149 € one-off, 14 days right of withdrawal.