Processing times at German immigration offices, reported by applicants
How long will your application at the Ausländerbehörde take?
Real processing times from applicants for all 400 immigration offices in Germany: citizenship, permanent residence, EU Blue Card and residence permits.
Where the offices are busiest
Sorted by the estimated number of foreign residents each office is responsible for.
Foreign residents: estimate from the 2024 share of foreign nationals (Regionalatlas, Federal and State Statistical Offices) and population. Boundaries: © GeoBasis-DE / BKG 2024.
| # | Office | Foreign residents | Reports |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berlin | 832,600 | 0 |
| 2 | München | 428,900 | 0 |
| 3 | Hamburg | 360,800 | 0 |
| 4 | Frankfurt am Main | 224,400 | 0 |
| 5 | Köln | 200,000 | 0 |
| 6 | Region Hannover | 189,700 | 0 |
| 7 | Stuttgart | 167,000 | 0 |
| 8 | Düsseldorf | 146,800 | 0 |
| 9 | Nürnberg | 138,600 | 1 |
| 10 | Bremen | 134,700 | 0 |
| 11 | Dortmund | 124,400 | 0 |
| 12 | Duisburg | 118,700 | 0 |
How it works
Report
Office, application type and the date you applied. No name, no file number.
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Use your private link later to add the date of the decision.
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For each office we calculate after how many days half of the applications are decided. Open applications count too.
No decision after more than 3 months?
Under § 75 VwGO you can file an action for failure to act (Untätigkeitsklage) if an authority does not decide within three months without sufficient reason. Whether this makes sense in your case is a question for an immigration lawyer.
More about the Untätigkeitsklage