Advice for migrants

Dur­ing your first weeks and months in Karl­sruhe, you are cer­tain to have a lot of ques­tions. Staff at the Migra­tions­ber­atung (migra­tion coun­selling ser­vice) will help you to solve prob­lems in areas such as:

• Learn­ing Ger­man (e.g. arrang­ing lan­guage and inte­gra­tion courses),
• Ques­tions about res­i­dence permits,
• Pro­fes­sion­al career and recog­ni­tion of qual­i­fi­ca­tions (e.g. recog­ni­tion of school-leav­ing cer­tifi­cates, appren­tice­ships, degrees, job search),
• Hous­ing (e.g. sup­port and basic infor­ma­tion about find­ing accommodation),
• Health (e.g. med­ical care, health insurance),
• Fam­i­ly and chil­dren (e.g. ques­tions about child­care, school),
• Mar­riage and part­ner­ships (e.g. sup­port dur­ing preg­nan­cy, mar­riage counselling).

Advice for migrants

In Karl­sruhe, there are five migra­tion advi­so­ry cen­tres for adult immi­grants (MBEs) and a youth migra­tion ser­vice (JMD) for young peo­ple between 12 and 27 years of age. Con­sul­ta­tions are free-of-charge.

You can find a list of fur­ther advice ser­vices offered by inde­pen­dent organ­i­sa­tions in Karl­sruhe here:

Advi­so­ry cen­tres for adult immi­grants (MBEs)

Youth migra­tion ser­vice (JMD)

City of Karl­sruhe: Refer­ral Coun­selling Ser­vice at the Office for Inte­gra­tion
Büro für Inte­gra­tion (BfI)

You can go to the Refer­ral Coun­selling Ser­vice at the Office for Integration:

• if you need advice or infor­ma­tion on lan­guage and inte­gra­tion courses,
• if you want to know which advice cen­tres you can go to in Karlsruhe,
• if you would like gen­er­al advice.