Detailed description
If you have a residence permit for international, humanitarian, or political reasons, it is temporary. If you wish to extend your residence permit, you must submit an application to the relevant authority. Which authority 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:
- Hardship cases (first-time extension only)
- Exceptional hardship cases
- Persons seeking temporary protection
- 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)
- Persons who are in possession of a work permit
The Hamburg Service is responsible for:
- Individual photographs for reasons of international law or urgent humanitarian reasons
- Recordings from abroad by the highest state authorities
- Recordings in cases of particularly political interests
- Resettlement of asylum seekers
- Hardship cases (only from the second extension)
- Asylum seekers
- refugees
- Persons entitled to subsidiary protection
- Persons for whom deportation is prohibited
- Integrated foreign nationals and certain family members with close family ties in Germany.
- Persons for whom humanitarian, personal or other legal or factual reasons make leaving the country impossible
Further information can be found in the “Links” section.