EU Citizens

If you are an EU citizen, we need your ID or passport for identification purposes.

Non-EU Citizens

If you are not an EU citizen, we will need your most recent resident permit card (Aufenthaltstitel). In case your work permit has additional conditions and says "siehe Zusatztblatt", do not forget to submit the Green paper (Zusatztblatt). Please be sure to send both sides in full to see the expiry date and working conditions.

TIP: It is highly recommended to use an office scanner to provide good-quality documents. Each document should be scanned separately. It is important to scan both sides of your documents without a background, shades, and objects such as your fingers and pens.

There’s a difference between a residence permit and a work permit. There are residence permits with restricted work permits and those where work is allowed to the full length.

Student Visa / Residence permits

Student permit holders are allowed to work 120 full or 240 half days per calendar year. Be aware, all days worked longer than 4 hours are counted as a full day. This applies regardless of the type of contract you have and the hours of work (full-time or part-time) specified in your contract.

Please submit additional documentation:

Note: The current semester enrollment certificate must have a clear date until when it is valid and if the work conditions include university. It must match the provided enrolment certificate. In case the university changes, it must be reported to the local immigration office.

Working-Holiday Visa

This visa is given to nationals of certain countries with which Germany has bilateral agreements. The visa is given to you for a year, but the work permit is restricted to 6 months at one employer or a maximum of 6 months within a year.

Please submit additional documentation:

📅 In case you have an expired work permit - the allowed days and months of employment are over - you can apply for another residence permit where employment is allowed. Please consult an immigration lawyer or search for information on the website of your local Immigration Office (Ausländerbehörde/ Ausländeramt).

Please note that the expiry date of your visa or residence permit does not automatically mean you are allowed to work till that date.

If the Immigration office granted you a new residence permit at the appointment but the card is on its way, please submit us the visa extension confirmation certificate from the Immigration office that may look like below. Please note that the format may vary from immigration office in different German federal lands.

We will check the employment conditions on your visa or residence permit together with provided additional documentation and will get back to you.

Important: The confirmation of a booked appointment does not apply in cases of restricted work permits.

Permanent residence - Niederlassungserlaubnis

Make sure your residence permit card is not expired. It is usually connected to your passport expiry date.

Humanitarian visa

The Humanitarian, or asylum seeker visa allows all employment types however usually has local restrictions. Example: in case you are allowed to work and live in Bavaria but wish to move to Berlin, please consult and receive permission from the immigration office first.

Spouse visa

For a family reunion with an EU citizen, with a German citizen or a third-country citizen that holds a valid employment residence permit in Germany. It’s given for a certain period of time and needs to be extended in a timely manner.

In case your residence permit is expiring but you have an appointment for an extension or are waiting for one, we will need proof of it (e.g. "Quittung"), which can look like this:
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Job seeker visa after successful completion of a German university degree

In case your residence permit is expiring, the proof of an appointment at the Immigration office is not applicable in your case. You will be allowed to work with us till the end of your residence permit. You can apply for another residence permit where employment is allowed.
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​However, an employment contract with Flink is not enough to get it. Please consult an immigration lawyer or search for information on the website of your local Immigration Office (Ausländerbehörde/ Ausländeramt).

If you've already had your appointment but you still haven't received your documents, you should have received a letter that looks like the one below. Please send us a copy to show your extension.

Temporary extention / "Fiktionsbescheinigung"

You may have also received a temporary extension / "Fiktionsbescheinigung" at the immigration office, which looks like the one below. Please be sure to send both sides in full to see the expiry date and working conditions.

Note: Be aware that, usually your "Fiktionbescheinigung" tells us to see the previous visa for work conditions, so please send it to us too. Do not forget that the work permit conditions are always noted in the Green paper (Zustatzblatt).

Please provide all of your relevant documents in proper readable quality. We will check the employment conditions on your residence permit together with provided additional documentation and will get back to you.