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Integration courses; application for a travel allowance

If you attend an integration course, you can receive a travel allowance under certain conditions.

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Procedure details

The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) is a higher federal authority and is responsible, among other things, for the travel allowance for attending integration courses.

You can receive the travel allowance if you have to walk more than 3 kilometers from your home to the course location.

It is also a prerequisite that you do not have to pay a cost contribution for the integration course.

You can receive a lump sum per course day, i.e. a fixed amount of money.

Submit your application in good time before the course begins. As a rule, you will receive the travel allowance from the course section that begins after your application. Retroactive payment for the period before your application is generally not possible.

If the course location or your residential address changes, you must submit a new application for a travel allowance to the BAMF.

Spätaussiedler
If you are a Spätaussiedler (ethnic German immigrant) or a relative of one, you will only receive the travel allowance if you are receiving unemployment benefit II, social assistance, unemployment benefit I without any other income or are financially needy for other reasons.

Hardship application
If the BAMF already pays you a travel allowance, but this does not cover the actual travel costs, then you can apply for a higher daily allowance. To do this, you must submit a hardship application.

You can apply for the travel allowance online or in writing at the relevant regional office of the BAMF.

The following can apply for a travel allowance:

  • Participants of an integration course who do not have to pay a contribution to the costs of the integration course.

Further requirement:

  • The course location is at least 3 kilometers away from your home by foot.

  • Required Documents

    When applying, you must submit:

    • Map section showing your commute between home and course location.
    • As a late repatriate or their relatives additionally:
      • Current notice (copy) about the receipt of:
        • Unemployment benefit I,
        • unemployment benefit II or
        • social welfare
      • alternatively: Current proof (copy) of your financial need:
        • Notice of housing benefit or
        • Notice of exemption from broadcasting fees (GEZ) or
        • Other proof or decision from another authority regarding financial neediness
    • Hardship application: printout / information from the transport association about the fare level and price of the required travel ticket

You must apply for your travel allowance online or in writing to the responsible regional office of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).

Online application

  • Complete the online application on the federal portal verwaltung.bund.de.
  • Upload the requested documents as a scan.
  • Submit your application.

Note: You will need the online ID card function of your ID card with PIN or your electronic residence permit with PIN for the online application.

  • The regional office of the BAMF will check your application.
  • You will receive a notice by mail stating that your application has been
    • approved or
    • rejected.

Written application

  • Go to the website of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees and open the application form.
  • You can either fill out the form
    • fill it out on the screen or
    • download it and then fill it out.
  • Print out the form and sign it.
  • Send the form with the necessary documents by mail to your responsible regional office of the BAMF.
  • The regional office of the BAMF will check your application.
  • You will receive a notification by mail that your application has been
    • approved or
    • rejected.

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Please submit the application well in advance of the course start date.

  • for processing the application: usually about 3 to 30 days

  • Objection
  • Administrative court action

Status: 13.02.2025
Editorially responsible for prodecure description: Bundesministerium des Innern
Source: Federal Portal
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