Settle
Visas, the Anmeldung, housing, insurance, banking, and finding your feet socially in Hamburg.
See how settling worksThere is always a way
Moving country is not one problem. It is fifty small ones in a language you may not speak yet, in an order nobody tells you. I have done every one of them, and I do them now with people who would rather not do them alone.
Pick the path that matches where you are.
Visas, the Anmeldung, housing, insurance, banking, and finding your feet socially in Hamburg.
See how settling worksApplications and scholarship strategy through to arrival and settling in as a student in Germany.
See how studying worksTrip planning and consulting: itineraries, transport strategy, and recommendations from lived experience.
See how trip planning worksI moved to Europe at eighteen. The first stop was easier because a host family helped me. The second move I did alone, with no one to ask, and it was far harder than it needed to be. For years I helped friends and their friends through the same steps. This is that help, made into something you can actually book.
"I arrived in Hamburg with a toddler and no German. Having one person who had done every one of these appointments before me turned a terrifying month into a checklist."
"The help with the motivation letter and the scholarship strategy was the difference between an application and an admission with funding."
"He walked me through the Anmeldung, the insurance and the bank account in my own language and in the right order. I never felt alone with the bureaucracy."