HousingAt the latest with the asylum and refugee recognition, you also have the right to move into your own apartment. The job centre or the social welfare office will pay the rent as long as you do not have your own income. However, there is a maximum limit for “reasonable” rental costs.
- Ask an advice centre or the local tenants’ association up to what amount the job centre or the social welfare office has to pay the rental costs for you and your family.
Unemployed young people under the age of 25 who move out of their parents’ home may not receive social support for their home and only 80 per cent of unemployment benefit II.1 Residence requirement Since the Integration Act came into force, asylum seekers and GFK refugees can no longer freely decide where they want to live in Germany. If you have been recognised since 01.01.2016,2 your residence permit will be subject to a residence requirement.3 However, there are considerable doubts as to the compatibility of this regulation, in particular with Art. 33 of the EU Qualification Directive.4 According to the new regulation, you must remain in the federal state to which you were assigned during the asylum procedure for the first three years after recognition.5 If you moved to another federal state before 06.08.2016, you can and must stay there.6 Further restrictions, such as the obligation to live in a certain place,7 do not currently exist in Lower Saxony.8 However, Lower Saxony has determined that if you have not already been assigned to the cities of Salzgitter, Delmenhorst or Wilhelmshaven, you are generally not allowed to live there for the first three years. Therefore, your residence permit is generally subject to the condition that you are only allowed to take up residence in the territory of the state of Lower Saxony, but not in the cities of Delmenhorst, Salzgitter and Wilhelmshaven.9 A residence regulation may not take place if you commence vocational training or study with a social insurance-liable employment relationship of at least 15 hours per week and a salary of € 710.00 net.10.11 In principle, the submission of a corresponding employment contract is sufficient. If the Aliens Department does not believe that the employment relationship is sustainable or serious, it must explain the reasons. A sustainable employment relationship exists if it is expected to last more than three months.12 If a residence requirement exists, it must be lifted if13