Preparation of Your Stay
Preparation of Your Stay
Once your application has been successful, we will send you your letter of admission. If you require a visa, we recommend that you apply as early as possible, as applying for a visa for study purposes can take up to three months.
Exemptions: Citizens of the EU, the USA, South Korea, Brazil and a few other countries are exempted from the visa requirement. Information can be obtained from the German embassies and consulates abroad or the immigration authorities.
Further information on visas for study visits and residence permits for Germany
Funding: The funding of studies (personal funding, scholarships, etc.) has to be ensured before you start studying here. Students from non-EU countries will need an official statement that they have sufficient financial resources e.g. a blocked account of 11.904 € (992 € x 12 months) in Germany or a scholarship certificate of a public scholarship.
Health insurance: Students must provide universities with certification of their health insurance.
As of 01.12.2021, there is a mutual obligation to register students' health insurance between health insurance companies and universities.
You must - regardless of whether you have statutory or private health insurance or an EHIC card - contact a statutory health insurance provider prior to enrolment in order to initiate a digital insurance notification, a so-called M10. Please always quote the JLU sender number for this purpose: JLU H0001711.
The health insurance company then notifies the university digitally whether...
- you are insured or
- you are exempt from insurance, exempted from compulsory insurance or not compulsorily insured.
You can already apply for exemption from compulsory insurance or take out health insurance from abroad.
Further information on health insurance can be found here.