Kinderged - Muich

Child benefits can basically be paid to the children who belong to your household. A household is only if the child is constantly living in your household, cared for and educated by you and is supplied from the funds of your household.

Just the mere registration of a child with a registration office does not lead to household affiliation. During a temporary external placement for school or vocational training, an existing household membership is maintained.

More details can be found in the leaflet about child benefit.
The presence of the children and their affiliation to the household must be officially proven. This is the purpose of the reversed budget statement.

Please fill in the section
A very legible. In the section
B are your details by the competent registration authority Einwohnermeldeamt) or another public body to certify and provided with the seal of approval or service stamp.

If you have children in your child benefit claim who live permanently (not just temporarily) outside of your household, please submit a 'life certificate' (KG 3b). If such children are in education or training, a certificate of education or training may be submitted instead of a certificate of living, but not older than six months. The corresponding certificate forms can be obtained from your family fund.

Use to the following link fill the form.

https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/familie-und-kinder/kino

https://con.arbeitsagentur.de/prod/apok/ct/dam/download/documents/Bescheinigung-KG3a_ba015208.pdf

Change Of Tax Class - Germany

Following is the collection of the information that  found over the internet, while searching about how to change you tax class in Germany.

You are married and want to choose a different tax bracket? Once a year you are allowed to do that - just fill in a form, and you're done. But do not worry, even if you have not chosen the cheapest combination, you will not pay a penny more taxes in the end. Because: Final settlement is only in the tax return.

How to change tax classes in Germany?

The process to change tax class in Germany is fairly simple:

1. Get a hold of the form “Antrag auf Steuerklassenwechsel bei Ehegatten” (Request for tax class change for married people). You can fill it online on the official finance ministry website this way When you have filled both pages in, you can download it as a PDF. Alternatively, you can download an empty PDF file here.
2. Print-it and sign it (both partners)
3. Send it to your Finanzamt

Where Can I Find Paper Forms?
 
You can pick up a paper version in your local Finanzamt

https://www.formulare-bfinv.de/

How can I Identify my Local Tax Office?
 
To find out which Finanzamt you need to report your taxes to you can use this online tool:http://gemfa.bzst.bund.de/gemfai.exe?rel=nofollow

Are Tax Forms Available in English?
German tax forms are unfortunately only available in German language.

How to fill the form?

You can find some help about how to fill the form here.
https://marlonbernardes.github.io/awesome-berlin/en/pages/changing-tax-category.html#changing-your-tax-category 

Important Links

https://www.steuertipps.de/steuererklaerung-finanzamt/themen/so-funktioniert-der-steuerklassenwechsel

https://marlonbernardes.github.io/awesome-berlin/en/pages/changing-tax-category.html#changing-your-tax-category

https://www.bzst.de/SharedDocs/GEMFA/gemfa2.html

Driving License - Germany

You can see a detailed requirments here for getting Driving License in Germnay.

Requirments

Inviting family members

Sometime you need to bring your family members to join you for some events, like your child's birth or your parents to see you.

For that your family membrs/friends need to get a short term visa, see details
Short Term Visa

Out of which it should be 
Tourist Visa
Visitor's Visa

How to sponsor your family/friends?

From local office (KVR) you need to get a invitation/sponsorship/commitment declaration letter which is called (Verpflichtungserklärung).

To be considered
With your signature, you assume the following obligations for your guest:

• You pay all the costs for his living, which he can not carry himself.
• They pay back all social benefits that the state incurs (for example, for the home and for sickness or long-term care).
• You pay all the costs incurred if the authorities send the guest back to their home country.

Requirements

• If you want to make a commitment, you must come by in person.
• It is not possible for you to authorize another person to do so. The foreigners authority of your main residence is responsible.

Required Documents
 
Hostess or host:

• Valid passport or identity card
• Employees: a current wage or salary statement
• Pensioners: a current pension notice
• Self-employed / freelance : up-to-date tax assessment as well as confirmation from the tax consultant about your profit and loss account (over the past three months). If you do not have a tax consultant, you have to compile an overview of your net profit for the past three months. This must be signed by you.
• Other regular income from leasing and leasing: current tax assessment and current bank statements that include rental and lease income
• from capital gains: current tax assessment and current financial status / securities account statements

Guest from abroad:

• Surname, first name (s)
• Date of birth Place of birth
• nationality
• Residential address in the home country
• Passport number (or copy of passport)
• Date of expected entry / commencement of obligation

 
Note: In individual cases, further documents may be required. 

Particularities

• As a host or host you have to live in Germany. If you have a temporary residence permit for Germany, then this must be longer than the duration of the obligation. In addition, legal persons domiciled in Germany can also make a commitment.
• You must send the letter of commitment (in original) to your guest. The latter must then present the original to the German embassy or consulate in his home country for the visa. He also needs a travel health insurance for Germany. He must present the certificate of insurance in the original. A travel health insurance can be taken abroad or by you in Germany.
• The letter of commitment should not be older than six months if the guest applies for a visa.
• The Schengen visa for visiting purposes is granted for a maximum of 90 days. For this reason, your guest should apply for the visa at the German diplomatic mission for the period he actually wants to spend in Germany. The decision whether to issue a visa is made solely by the German diplomatic mission. For visa questions, please contact them directly.
• The submission of a declaration of commitment in the German diplomatic mission is not mandatory for the issue of a visa. There is also the possibility that the person invited can prove sufficient income or assets in the German mission abroad. We therefore recommend to clarify this in advance.

Charging framework
 
29 Euro

If you have all the conditions for making a commitment, you can take it with you immediately.

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