Marvin Christ

South Westphalia? Too good to miss! The “Welcome Service” from Südwestfalen Agentur GmbH offers you information and answers to your questions about arriving and staying in the South Westphalia region. Simone Epe, is looking forward to hearing from you.

The Municipal Integration Centre provides an overview of services relating to integration. People from the city administration, social education and teacher training departments collaborate to provide these services. The Municipal Integration Centre assists with integration at strategic level through networking, technical support, informative events and funding programmes from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Are you interested in getting socially involved in your district or an autonomous migrant organization or would you like to use your language skills to help others? Are you studying to be a teacher and wish to network with other migrants in a similar situation? With links to many full-time and volunteer staff, the Centre is able to supply all kind of contacts.

You live in Siegen or a district of Siegen? Do you have a question on right of residence, or wish to apply for a residence permit? The Immigration Authority is responsible for residence permit applications (for student purposes, for employees, Blue Card etc.) as well as settlement permits and naturalisation; it answers questions relating to asylum and citizenship. In all cases, please make an appointment in advance.

Would you like to undertake further vocational training, for example by taking a computer course or learning a foreign language? Every six months, the Adult Education Centre for the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein offers a wide range of further education courses. Courses are held across the district. Moreover, ‘German as a foreign language/second language’ presents a full range of integration courses and vocational German courses every semester.