What We Offer in Nigeria
- Visa Guidance: Support with understanding and navigating the visa application process.
- Language Preparation: Advice on learning German, including connections to Goethe-Institut language courses.
- Recognition of Qualifications: Help with preparing documents and understanding how Nigerian professional or academic qualifications can be recognized in Germany.
- Integration Support: Guidance on adapting to German society, education systems, and the labor market.
- Family and Youth Counseling: Special support for family reunification and young people planning studies or training in Germany.
- Protection: Information to safeguard against fraudulent offers, labor exploitation, or unsafe migration pathways
Key features
- Confidential and independent counseling, with strict data protection.
- Free of charge – no payments or gifts are allowed or accepted.
- Delivered by trained professionals who act in the best interest of migrants, not government or business interests.
- Strong local partnerships with language schools, intercultural projects, and German institutions active in Nigeria.
Why It Matters
The project supports the following persons:
•You want to come to Germany as an international specialist?
•You want to do a vocational training in Germany?
•Your fiancé or your spouse lives in Germany. You want to live with him or her in Germany?
•You want to move to Germany with your German spouse, your German child or a German parent?
•You already live in Germany and you want your child, who is still a minor, to live there with you?
Then this project is the right place for you to be. The project “To arrive prepared and successfully in Germany” will support you in your plans. For that purpose partners in Albania, Armenia,Ethiopia,Gorgia,Turkey, Kosovo, Bosnia Herzegovina and Russia and Nigeria, established counselling centers, which provide information by group and individual counselling and by hosting information events. The consultations are free of charge.
How will you be supported by project?
The project focuses on giving pre-integration counsels to people. We want to give you all the necessary information before your departure. We will support you during your visa process and all that is needed during this period. We are equipped to inform you about the realistic expectation of living in Germany and help you to be as well prepared as possible for your new life overthere.
Once you are in Germany, you will have the chance to get more support by the counselling centers for migration of the welfare associations (Caritas, Diakonie, AWO, DRK, Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband and the welcome coaches of the Goethe-Institut). It is our objective to provide you with proficient counselling and support, that would help you integrate successfully into the German society.
The counselling will concern topics as visa, right of residence, learning of the German language and the possibilities of the recognition of educational and professional qualifications. You will also get reliable information about the living conditions and living expenses in Germany as well as the contact details of the German counselling centers.
Those, who decide to migrate to Germany, based on the counselling they have received from us, know what to expect there. They know about their rights, duties and possibilities and also about the impossibilities. You will arrive well prepared and successfully in Germany.
Here you will find more information in our informational brochures.
Quelle: Diakonie Baden
Quelle: Diakonie Baden