Verpflichtungserklärung, Aufenthalt bis zu 3 Monate

• § 68 Residence Act (AufenthG)
  https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/aufenthg_2004/__68.html

With this declaration, you undertake to ensure the visitor's livelihood, including benefits in the event of illness, for the duration of your stay.
You can only contact the Hamburg Service responsible for your place of residence. The Bergedorf and Billstedt locations are exceptions. There, please send an e-mail to the Department for Foreigners Affairs.

• exact personal details (first and last name, date and place of birth),
• Address abroad,
• The serial number of the passport is desirable.

• Natural people:
  • ID card or passport,
  • Evidence of financial capacity:
    • Notices regarding child benefit, child supplement and/or parental allowance
  • Employees:
    • Wage or salary certificate or salary statement for the last month.
  • Pensioners:
    • current pension certificate
  • Self-employed and freelance persons:
    • last tax assessment (up to June of a year, the tax assessment from the year before last, from July of a year, the tax assessment from the previous year) and
    • current profit and loss account as proof that the activity is still being carried out,
    • or other evidence showing monthly net income or current monthly net profit (e.g. certified by a tax advisor).
    • In the Altona and Blankenese locations, please also contact the Foreigners' Affairs location for declarations of commitment for self-employed persons.
  • Recipients of unemployment benefit:
    • last approval notice
• Legal persons
  • Extract from the commercial register (not older than 3 months),
  • Profit and loss statement or other evidence (presentation by the managing director or an authorized representative).

• The inviter must appear in person.
• Proof of financial capacity (see links)
• Representatives of legal entities can contact the location for residents' affairs responsible for the legal entity's registered office or the location for residents' affairs responsible for their place of residence. You can find out the exact jurisdiction by entering your registered address in the field above.

• Please note that the Department of Foreigners’ Affairs is responsible for the Billstedt and Bergedorf locations.
  Appointments can only be made by email. Please use the email address a.ost@hamburgservice.de to book an appointment.
• In the Altona and Blankenese locations, please also contact the Foreigners' Affairs location (Altona) for declarations of commitment for self-employed persons. Please use the email address a.altona@hamburgservice.de to book an appointment.
• A declaration of commitment cannot be made by the following persons: recipients of benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act, the Social Code II, the Social Code XII or those receiving a scholarship. Nor by foreigners if they have the following: toleration, fictitious certificate, residence permit, visa under the Residence Act or the Visa Code, short-term residence permits.

• Declaration of commitment, stay up to 3 months
• When inviting a foreign visitor who requires a visa to enter the country, it is usually necessary to submit a declaration of commitment.
• This declaration obliges the visitor to ensure his or her livelihood for the duration of the stay, including benefits in the event of illness.
• responsible:
  • only the Hamburg Service location responsible for the place of residence.
    • For the Bergedorf and Billstedt locations, please contact the Foreigners' Affairs location in advance by email for declarations of commitment.
  • Declarations of commitment for more than 90 days are generally processed at the Foreigners’ Affairs offices.
  • For declarations of commitment for self-employed persons in the Altona and Blankenese locations, please contact the location for foreign affairs.