====== Ausländerbehörde foreigner's office (Landratsamt) ======

The Ausländerbehörde at Landratsamt is closed for the time being. If you have questions to the Ausländerbehörde, please call them on the phone.

**The phone numbers of the persons in charge there** you can find on the website:\\
[[https://www.kreis-tuebingen.de/site/LRA-Tuebingen-Internet-Root/node/310341?QUERYSTRING=ausl%C3%A4nderbeh%C3%B6rde]]

**General office hours are:**\\
Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8.00am till 12.00am\\
Thursday from 8.00am till 12.30am and 1.30pm till 5.00pm\\
Tuesday they are closed

**The postal address is:**\\
Landratsamt Tübingen
Ausländerbehörde\\
Wilhelm-Keil-Str. 50\\
72072 Tübingen


===== If you want to renew your residence documents ("Ausweis") or apply for new ones? =====

* Bring your old document (original) to the district office (letter box) or send it by post.\\
* The new document will be sent to you by post (yellow letter).\\
* Aufenthaltsgestattungen are extended by 6 months.\\
* Duldungen are extended by 6 months. 



===== If you want to apply for an Aufenthaltsgenehmigung (residence permit)... =====

  * call them on the phone or send them an email. They will send you the necesseray forms for the application by post
  * send the filled application by post to the Ausländerbehörde at Landratsamt (postal address see above), ot put the application into the mailbox of the Landratsamt
  * afterwards your application will be evaluated
  * afterwards you will receive a paper document ("Fiktionsbescheinigung"). :!: Carry this paper always with you. This paper is the prove that your are allowed to rightfully stay in Germany.
  * Your fingerprints will be taken at a later time, once this is possible again
  * only after this, your plastic ID card (elektronischer Aufenthaltstitel) can be ordered


===== If you already have applied for an Aufenthaltsgenehmigung (residence permit)... =====

...and already have received an invitiation letter to pick up your plastic ID card at the Landratsamt

  * make an appointment with the Ausländerbehörde at Landratsamt by phone
  * at this appointment, you can pick up your new ID card at the outside counter window in Landratsamt