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Arrival checklist

Your first 30 days in Hamburg

German paperwork is a chain: each step unlocks the next. Tick steps off and the next one opens with what to bring and what to say.

Hamburg Arrival Passport

🧳 Packing & preparing

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1
Secure a room
2
Get the Wohnungsgeberbestätigung
3
Register your address (Anmeldung)
4
Wait for your Steuer-ID letter
5
Activate your blocked account & German bank
6
Health insurance & enrolment
7
Sort the Rundfunkbeitrag letter

  1. Step 1

    Secure a room

    Everything else depends on having an address where you are allowed to register.

    • Ask before signing: “Can I register (Anmeldung) at this address?”
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  2. Step 2

    Get the Wohnungsgeberbestätigung

    Unlocks after the step above.

  3. Step 3

    Register your address (Anmeldung)

    Unlocks after the step above.

  4. Step 4

    Wait for your Steuer-ID letter

    Unlocks after the step above.

  5. Step 5

    Activate your blocked account & German bank

    Unlocks after the step above.

  6. Step 6

    Health insurance & enrolment

    Unlocks after the step above.

  7. Step 7

    Sort the Rundfunkbeitrag letter

    Unlocks after the step above.

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