Paperwork, tamed.
Moving to a new country is hard enough. The paperwork shouldn't be.
Papertame shows you which papers you need, in the order you need them, in plain English. One country at a time.
Moving to Germany? German bureaucracy, tamed.
Start free: your personal plan, the tools that explain every document, and the German letters written for you. No German needed.
Tame Germany's paperworkFree to start · 12 tools live · no sign-upEvery one of these already has a tool
Registering your address (Anmeldung)Health insurance (Krankenkasse)The TV fee letter (Rundfunkbeitrag)Official letters in German onlyOpening a German bank accountA German-style CV (Lebenslauf)The rental applicationGetting your deposit back
How hard is this, really?
We sort every piece of German paperwork into four animals. The animal tells you what kind of trouble it can give you, before you touch it.
- Lion
- The one nobody is in charge of.No single office owns it. You are the one carrying your case from one to the next, and nobody hands it on for you.For example: Getting your foreign degree recognised
- Tiger
- The slow one.An office decides this one, on its own schedule, and nothing you buy makes it come faster.For example: Your first German tax return
- Lynx
- The one where mistakes cost you.There is a deadline on it, or an order you have to follow. Cheap the first time, expensive the second.For example: Registering your address (Anmeldung)
- Wildcat
- The small annoying one.Fiddly, but small. The worst it costs you is another letter and a couple of weeks.For example: The TV fee letter that arrives after you register
Tamed
Finished.What every step becomes once you tick it off. Your list keeps your place, so you always know what is done and what is left.
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Every rule here comes from an official source, with a link and the date we checked it.
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Tell us where you are headed and you get one email when that country opens. Nothing else, ever.