You are responsible for entering the country with the visa required for the purpose of your stay. Citizens of some countries can enter Germany without a visa and then have 90 days to apply for a residence permit for their research project. To find out whether this is an option for you, please check the website of the German embassy in your home country.

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Furthermore, we would like to emphasize that we have no influence whatsoever on the granting of the visa, not even on a faster appointment allocation - as sorry as we are about that. This is solely at the discretion of the German Embassy or the German Consulate.

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A new residence permit must be applied for at the Foreigners' Registration Office before the valid visa expires.

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The application can be done online:

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https://www.augsburg.de/buergerservice-rathaus/buergerservice/digitalisierung/online-services-auslaenderbehoerde#/#bueOverview

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Please select the second option "Residence permit for employment".

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You can also apply by email. In this case please send an e-mail with a scan of the documents needed to aufenthalt.uni@augsburg.de:

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• application form
• passport (including your visa, if applicable)
• hosting agreement of hosting chair
• if applicable current enrolment certificate?("Immatrikulationsbescheinigung") for PhD students (not?mandatory, if hosting agreement is provided)
• proof of financial support* (e.g. work contract with the University of Augsburg, scholarship, blocked account with an amount of 992,- EUR per month applied for or?financial support confirmation "Verpflichtungserkl?rung"?from a person of reference § 68 AufenthG)
• proof of health insurance

?After the foreign authority has checked all the documents, you will be given an appointment for a personal interview.?

?At the personal visit, you pay the fee of 100 EUR by debit card and provide a recent passport photo.