Hi everyone,

Hopefully someone knows a bit about this and can help me out:

My wife and I will be moving to Germany and I was researching online where to go to apply for the residence permit for her within the first 90 days of our stay there.

When I googled it, I was directed to service.berlin.de, and then it hit me: How does it work in Germany with all the different states? (Bundesländer)

From what I understand the overall "law" is the same all across Germany, but I have heard that these applications are dealt with locally? So maybe it would be easier/faster to apply in a different state, than another?

So e.g. there's a lot of people living in Berlin, but very little in Bremen, so would it be better/easier/faster to live in and apply for residence permit in Bremen rather than Berlin?

Or do all the applications go to the same office/ministry in the end?

Hopefully someone can help me with this.

Thanks!

Great! Thanks for your answer!

And yes, you are correct. I am a Danish national and my spouse is a non-EU national!

I've heard from 4 danish nationals who live in Flensburg, that they got their residence card in 3-4 weeks. That's pretty quick, compared to Denmark, I must say!