Enrolment WS 2020/2021 - Corona
Last Udate: February 17, 2021
Dear all
"Wir sind auf einem guten Weg". This was anounced on the press conference of the German Government on Feburary 12, 2021. Although our virus case numbers are declining and the situation in the intensive care units is stabilising we need to be cautious. As infection increases with new viral mutations the German government decided to prolong the lockdown until March 7 and to asked the citizens to commit to the situation and to work together in following the rules and keep the contacts to a minimum.
Rapid tests are about to be appoved and help to get the situation under control. And the overall situation in Germany allows it again to test with PCR-tests and trace.
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The Corona situation is imposing lots of limitations on everybody. Our government is still struggling to get the situation under control. The measures which are imposed are only successful if everybody takes them seriously and follows the rules. The more we work together the more successful we are and the earlier we are able to readopt our pre-pandemic life.
Since December 16, we have a harsh national lockdown which means that all non-essential shops are closed in an emergency bid to curb rising infection rates. In some Bundesländer we have a curfew.
Citizens shall limit their contacts to the absolute minimum. The government is constantly monitoring the situation. The goal is to contain the virus in a way that our health care system (meaning hospital beds, health care staff) is not overwhelmed. Please note that we have restrications on federal, on state and on local levels. The situation is therefore slightly confusing as the local restrictions are sometimes stricter.
A basic obligation to wear a mouth-nose cover is imposed. Any infringement constitutes an administrative offence and is therefore subject to a fine. This also applies to cyclists. It applies currently mainly to public areas indoors as well as outdoors.
In some regions FFP2 masks are mandatory in public transport including stations and in shops.
Please keep yourself informed. Some links below will help you.
A very good app is NINA. NINA is a warn app of our Federal Office for Civil Protection and is designed to alarm the population in case of emergencies. Choose your language at "Einstellungen" / "Spracheinstellungen - App Sprache anpassen". Choose "current location" you will get all information in your region about the Pandemic including restricions and the information about the vaccination possibilities as soon as the vaccinations are available and the centres are established.
On November 6, the federal ministry of health introduced an online registration for travellers from high risk countries which replaced the paper form. You will find the link below in our Quarantine section.
Travel arrangements
(updated: January 18, 2021)
To plan your arrival to Germany please read the following section carefully and prepare your travel accordingly.
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Please follow our instructions and coordinate your flight with the move-in appointment of your housing agency. Make sure that you do not book weekend flights as hotels are closed. There is no pick-up service on the weekends and the housing agency is not available. Furthermore due to the special situation a stay with a friend is not an option as you put your friend at risk of a possible infection.
Mandatory:
- Take a Covid Test in your home country shortly (max. 48 hours) prior to your arrival in Germany.
- Book your flight with an early arrival on your move-in date - not later than 9 am!
- Inform your housing agency of your arrival and make sure to mention that you have to quarantine for 10 days.
- Insert your arrival data and move-in appointment to our google arrival form.
- Inform the staff and the student guides of your arrival (one email).
Very important:
Under current law arrivals from a risk country are not allowed to sleep in German hotels or youth hostels. Therefore please make sure to book your flight according your move-in appointment. As it might take long to get through the customs, to make your Covid-Test in Germany and to travel to your room, please secure a move-in slot in the afternoon.
In Germany - What next?
All Arrivals are currently taking place in Terminal 1
Go to meeting point at airport Terminal 1 / Area B / Level 1. Meet your student Guide.
Please note that only students who paid for our service (housing fee) will be picked-up at the airport from our student guides.
From November 8th, 2020 new restrictions are set in place:
You will have to go straight to your accommodation immediately after landing in Frankfurt and remain there for 10 days generally without interruption. You are only allowed to interrupt your quatantine to take a Covid test. Please read the quarantine section for further information and the Section Day 5 in Germany!
Step 1:
Gesundheitsamt / Digital Registration on Entry
Upon your arrival in Germany you will have to go into Quarantine for 10 days after entry. Please read the Quarantine section thouroughly. We update the section as soon as we learn that requirements have changed.This is implemented not only by the government but also from the faculty side. We do not want to be responsible for an outbreak in a student hall. Therefore we strongly advise our students to follow our advise and stay in quarantine. Furthermore you have to pay fines, if you break the law.
You need to complete this Digital Registration on Entry so that the local health authority can check whether you're staying in quarantine. Your travel and contact details will be passed on to the local health authority at the place where you'll be staying so you can be contacted there.
Further information on current requirements for entry to Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic and who is not required to stay in quarantine is available at here.
Step 2:
Einwohnermeldeamt / Registration office: Get an appointment before you show up!
Residence Registration / Anmeldung
When moving to Germany you must register your address with the authorities within seven days of arrival. In German this is called Anmeldung. How to do it? See the section "Einwohnermeldeamt / Registration office"
Step 3:
Aliens' registration office -Ausländerbehörde: Get an appointment before you show up!
Note that registration of residence and address is the very first paperwork task to be done on moving to Germany. Residence permits come later. How to do it? See the section "Ausländerbehörde"
Step 4:
Open a bank account in Germany.
Please note that 5 days after your arrival you must take a Covid test.
The test is free of charge during the first 10 days after arriving in Germany if you present the arrival form showing that you have come from a high-risk area.
Corona-Testcenter in Darmstadt
Make an appointment: Tel: 06151 116 117
Bessunger Straße 125, Gebäude D, 64295 Darmstadt
open: Mo-Fr from 9 am - 13 pm
To make an appointment please call 06151 116 117. Some of your fellow students indicated however, that an appointment is not necessary.
Prepare the following documents for the appointment:
- your passport
- health insurance copy (digital copy is also accepted)
Alternatively, you can find out what would be near you a t www.arztsuchehessen.de.
At Frankfurt Airport Free tests are available in two testing centers (see section "Test possibilities at a glance") located on the pedestrian bridge connecting Terminal 1 and the long-distance train station.
Your Campus Card will be sent to you by postal service after your arrival in Germany.
Please apply via Email to Student Service Center - Internationale Studierende indicating your postal address in Germany as soon as you moved in. The Student Service Center (SSC) will send it then within the next few days via postal service.
Please either send the Meldebescheinigung or your Address Update (Pdf-Datei, 93,8 KB) or your Meldebescheinigung to the following address: Catharina.Memminger@tk.de.
Following to your email to the TK, a mailing with a one-time password for uploading the photo will be sent to you by post.
Those students of you, who are over 30 years old, please contact your health insurance provider directly to get a card.
IMPORTANT: Please do not forget to create a SEPA mandate for the health insurance fee. Without payment you will be exmatriculated.
The In the event of late entry, the health insurance fees are waived until the day of entry.
Important: Membership for students who are subject to health insurance still begins with the semester, but at the earliest on the day of enrolment (registration by the university/college).
Please register with the following form from the TK (Pdf-Datei, 259,5 KB)and send it to the Catharina Memminger.
Residence registration / Aliens' registrations office
(edited: October 14, 2020)
Note that registration of residence and address is the very first paperwork task to be done on moving to Germany. Residence permits come later.
We recommend to go ahead to contact the city for registration and residence permit during your quarantine. You will likely have to wait a few days to get an appointment.
Please write an email to get an appointment before you show up!
meldeamt@darmstadt.de
When moving to Germany you must register your address with the authorities within 14 days of arrival. In German it is called Anmeldung.
When leaving Germany or you move to another city you must deregister again. In German it is called Abmeldung.
You need the residence registration document to:
- open a bank account
- matriculate at the university
- conclude contracts
- obtain a residence authorisation.
Residence registration / Anmeldung
The residence registration is handled at offices called "Einwohnerwesen und Wahlen".
Postal Address:
Stadthaus Grafenstraße
Einwohnerwesen und Wahlen
Postfach 11 10 61
64225 Darmstadt
Street Address:
Stadthaus Grafenstraße
Einwohnerwesen und Wahlen
Grafenstraße 30
Office hours: Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri: 7:30 h - 12:30 h / Wed: 8:30 h -12:30 h + 14:00 h - 18:00 h
Documents for the appointment:
- Passport
- Wohnungsgeberbestätigung (landlord’s confirmation of residence)
- Marriage certificate as well as birth certificate as original document and certified translation (if applicable).
Please write an email to get an appointment before you show up!
auslaenderbehoerde@darmstadt.de
Due to the pandemic the procedure has been changed to an application procedure via email.
Please send a written application for a residence permit to the aliens authority. Do not forget to date the application and make a copy for your records!
Postal Address:
Stadthaus Grafenstraße
Ausländerbehörde
Postfach 11 10 61
64225 Darmstadt
Street Address:
Stadthaus Grafenstraße
Ausländerbehörde
Grafenstraße 30
Office hours: Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri: 7:30 h-12:30 h / Wed: 8:30 h - 12:30 h + 14:00 h - 18:00 h
A current version of the following documents must be submitted at regular intervals when applying for a residence permitor its extension:
- valid national passport
- biometric passport photograph
- Certificate of language course / university registration
- Proof of ability to cover the costs of living (e.g. blocked account, bank statements for the last 3 months). Sufficient financal means for covering the costs of living must be available (at present 853.00 Euros per month).
- Proof of health insurance cover
Granting and extensions of a residence permit is always subject to charges.
Following application for a residence title, you will usually receive a temporary permit in accordance with sec. 81 (4) residence act (AufenthG) which can be used for leaving and entering the country.
The aliens authority will contact you in writing when your electronic residence permit (eAT) is ready for collection. (No appointment is required for collection).
Quarantine
(updated: February 2nd, 2021)
What does quarantine mean?
Persons entering from high-risk areas are obliged to go directly to their own household or other suitable accommodation immediately after entry and to stay there permanently for a period of 10 days after their entry. It is not permitted to receive visitors from persons who do not belong to their household during this period. Violations can be prosecuted as an administrative offence with a fine of up to 25,000 euros. Even if the test result is negative, you are obliged to immediately contact the health authority responsible for you without delay. Please complete this Digital Registration on Entry or, if this is not possible, fill in a written substitute registration and hand it in to the carrier or the border authority.
Your travel and contact details will be passed on to the local health authority at your city so that you can be contacted there.
Please check the section Day 5 - Take a Covid test to see all possibilities.
Independent from a negative COVID test we advise our students to follow our advise and stay 10 days in quarantine in your own room since we do not want to be responsible for an outbreak in a student hall. If you reserved your housing with us, we will organise support and you will get a survival box for this period.
You are obliged to inform the competent health authority immediately if you experience typical symptoms of an infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, such as fever, dry cough (not caused by chronic illness), loss of sense of taste or smell, within ten days of arrival. In this case please send the completed symptom development form to the Gesundheitsamt Darmstadt.
Further information on current requirements for entry to Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic and who is not required to stay in quarantine is available at here.
As a protective measure - also against influenza - observe the following hygiene rules:
- wash hands frequently and thoroughly (also children and adolescents)
- wearing of everyday masks where it is mandatory
- cough and sneeze only in a paper handkerchief or the crook of your arm
- use disposable handkerchiefs and dispose of them in a waste bin after each use
- no shaking hands, no hugging/kissing on the cheek
- do not touch your nose, mouth and eyes with your hands (especially after holding on to handles in buses or using door handles, which are touched by many, but also at home)
- Clean/disinfect your smartphone, mobile phone, tablet etc. regularly
- Consistently use only your own glasses and cutlery
- Consistently avoid crowds.
Like other respiratory pathogens, an infection with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 can lead to different symptoms. According to the Robert Koch Institute, the course of the disease is very unspecific, diverse and varies greatly, from symptomless progressions to severe pneumonia with lung failure. It is therefore not possible to make any generally valid statements about the "typical" course of the disease.
If you are tested positive then you and all persons living with you in the same household are automatically separated for 14 days from the date of the test (even without any feedback from the health office).
If the last 48 hours in your 14 day isolation are free of symptoms, the quarantine ends automatically and without further consultation with the health office.
An additional test in this case is not necessary.
How do I behave in case of illness? Who is my contact person? How can I protect myself?
- In the event of symptoms such as a cold, cough or fever, please always first contact your doctor by telephone, either your doctor or the medical on-call service on (06151)116117.
- You can also contact the Darmstadt Health Office - telephone (06151)33090.
- The Klinikum Darmstadt, patients are usually only properly cared for when serious symptoms occur (e.g. pneumonia) and there is such a deterioration in physical condition that inpatient admission is necessary.
- As with a "normal flu", the disease can be cured with the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in most cases in the home environment.
- The Corona test centre in the Bessunger Straße 125, Building D.
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday from 9am to 1pm.
In advance, a telephone appointment must be made at Phone number (06151)116 117.
Stay healthy,
We wish you and your families all the best for the coming months.
The faculty staff
Additional Information
Important Documents and Links
Corona-Testcenter in Darmstadt
Make an appointment: Tel: 06151 116 117
Bessunger Straße 125, Gebäude D, 64295 Darmstadt
open: MO-FR from 9 am - 13 pm