Detailed description
If you cannot return to your home country for international, humanitarian, or political reasons, you have the option of obtaining a residence permit. This permit allows you to stay and work in Germany for a specific period of time. Which office in Hamburg is responsible for your application depends on your case;
The Office for Migration of the Department of Home Affairs and Sport (BIS) is responsible for:
- Individual photographs for reasons of international law or urgent humanitarian reasons
- Admissions from abroad by the highest state authorities (only for new entries and persons who are legally obliged to leave the country)
- Hardship cases and exceptional hardship cases
- Persons seeking temporary protection
- Asylum seekers
- refugees
- Persons entitled to subsidiary protection
- Persons for whom there is a ban on deportation
- Persons who are legally obliged to leave the country and for whom humanitarian, personal or other legal or factual reasons make leaving the country impossible
- Victims of certain crimes (human trafficking, undeclared work or illegal temporary employment)
- Integrated foreign nationals and certain family members with close family ties in Germany.
The Hamburg Service is responsible for:
- Admissions from abroad by the highest state authorities (not for new entries and persons subject to enforceable departure)
- Recordings in cases of particularly political interests
- Resettlement of asylum seekers
Further information can be found in the “Links” section.