Private Clients
Visa & Immigration Services
Depending on your situation you may need a freelancer visa, EU Blue Card, job search visa, permanent residency permit, an intensive language course visa, or you qualify for naturalization. We will help you determine your options and make a plan.
Our Visa & Immigration Service includes:
Individual and professional immigration consultation
Expedited visa service (work permits within 4 weeks)
Your direct line to immigration authorities
Ensuring your application paperwork is complete and correct
Accompanying to the appointment at the local immigration office
360 degree supervision of the process
💡Visa applications require a registered address in Germany. We assist in finding a short term furnished apartment, so that you can take all the following steps of their relocation process from there. Please find more details on accommodation as follows.
Short Term / Long Term Apartment Finding
Nothing exceeds the importance of finding a suitable home if you want to settle in Berlin.
Our Accommodation Finding Service includes:
Pre-search consultation on your requirements
Presentation of available apartments
Scheduling of viewings, managing all communication with the landlords
Accompanying, interpreting, and advising at the viewings
Managing your applications
Ensuring your lease agreement is in line with standard Grm. Terms & Conditions
Coordinating the contract signing process
Accompanying you at the hand-over, supervising the process
Bureaucratic Services
Formal appointments are necessary - and annoying. Our support saves you nerves, costs, and spares you possible mistakes.
Bureaucratic services can be for example:
Registering with city authorities
Expediting tax ID
Accompanying to and interpreting at appointments at German authorities
Applying for subsidies, e.g. Kindergeld (child allowance), Elterngeld (maternity/paternity allowance)
Applying for a Berlin daycare / after school care voucher
Opening a German bank account
Registering with a German health insurance / other insurances
Registering your home utilities (electricity, gas, internet, broadcasting fees)
Registering your vehicles
Getting a parking permit
Transferring your driver's licence
Registering your pets (welcome to Berlin: there's a dog tax!)
We can discuss which specific needs you have and tailor our services accordingly.
Daycare & School Finding
Berlin has a broad variety of child care and schools - both public and private. We help you find the right one.
The Daycare & School Finding Service includes:
Pre-search consultation on your needs
Finding the right daycare / school
Ensuring the application paperwork is complete, within the deadlines, and correct
Communicating with school authorities and institutions
Applying for the daycare/after school care voucher
Accompanying you to and interpreting at appointments
Family & Lifestyle Services
The success of your relocation depends in no small part on the integration of the whole family into your new community. We work closely together with you to ensure the best results.
There are many components to the "family & lifestyle equation" that we can assist with.
Services can be for example:
Cleaning services
Childcare resources
Language courses
Consultation on clubs and memberships (sports, culture) incl. registration
Philanthropic connections
Interior design services
Expectant parent support
Spousal career transition support
We can discuss which specific needs you have and tailor our services accordingly.
"Moving our family of five to Berlin on short notice seemed an impossible task until we found von Wrede Relocation. They immediately understood our needs and shepherded us through local immigration requirements, a very tight short term housing rental market, and equally challenging decisions on childcare, all under an urgent timeline. They went above and beyond to find us a home, place our children in a wonderful bilingual kita, and get fully registered with local authorities. vWR far exceeded our expectations and we unequivocally recommend their services to any family looking to move to Berlin hassle-free."
Carolyn and Damien Pieretti
"von Wrede Relocation helped me obtain a residence permit in Germany. The process is very complicated, and they helped me negotiate every step with aplomb. Documents, paperwork, letters of support, scheduling appointments: vWR made sure it all got done and proofed everything to make sure that all was correct and complete. von Wrede Relocation was nothing less than outstanding."
J. Palatella, author and editor
"I would highly recommend von Wrede Relocation to any newcomer who needs to relocate. We were faced with a Kafkaesque situation, but Jessica's perfect professional knowledge and empathetic approach helped us overcome it. We will always remember her with gratitude. Moving to a new country can be quite overwhelming if you don't know what to do. With von Wrede Relocation it will be a smoother process and your bureaucratic pain will be eased!"
Büşra Akman
"What might have been forbidding, confusing and time-consuming was more like going to a spa - Jessica is ridiculously organized, pro-active, instantly responds to emails, thinks of every tiny detail and knows, from her years of experience, how to manage the finicky ins-and-outs of the various systems (residency permits, real estate concerns). If I had not met and worked with Jessica, I would not consider buying an apartment in Berlin; but because of her guidance and knowledge, I feel I am in abundantly good hands, and can dare to wade into this otherwise complex, bewildering world."
Heidi Julavits, author and associate professor,
Columbia University’s School of the Arts
"Bringing together work and family is a challenge - all the more if you are abroad in a country with a foreign language. My wife and I are both academics and we had 3 boys who needed child care and schooling for our year in Berlin. This was no easy undertaking in Berlin's highly competitive school and daycare landscape, but von Wrede Relocation managed to organize it all in their calm and efficient manner, coordinating everything, and managing all communication with respective institutions and authorities. We are grateful for the great support - I do not know how we would have managed without von Wrede Relocation!"
Haun Saussy, University Professor, Comparative Literature, the Committee on Social Thought, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, The University of Chicago
"I had a great experience with von Wrede Relocation. The team was incredibly supportive and responsible throughout the entire process, making my first days of relocating to Berlin much easier. They truly understood the challenges I was facing and worked hard to help me settle in. Thanks to their efforts, I was able to find a very suitable flat that perfectly met my needs. Their dedication and commitment to making the process smooth and stress-free were impressive. I highly recommend their services to anyone moving to Berlin."
B. Nayebi, Data Analyst
"von Wrede Relocation did a great job for us, finding and implementing a way to correct a mistake I had made in obtaining documents from the United States."
Glenn Shafer, mathematical statistician and University Professor, Rutgers University