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Red Tape Translation offers you four types of help:

Take a Translator

A language expert will accompany you to your appointment and guide you through the whole process.

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Coaching

Whatever the bureaucratic challenge, let Kathleen coach you through it step by step.

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Life Admin

I’ll make phone calls on your behalf and take care of all the challenges, big and small.

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Written Translation

CVs and contracts or certified translations of certificates - we're responsive, reliable and competitively priced.

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Tell us who you are and what you’re trying to get done and I’ll let you know how I can help!

I’m a freelancer

Then you’ll probably want to get the ball rolling and start working as quickly as possible. Red Tape Translation can:

  • Help you set yourself up correctly as a freelancer
  • Prepare for your appointment at the Ausländerbehörde
  • Walk you through getting a freelance tax number
  • Translate your work or client contracts into German or English
  • Help you with your application for the Künstlersozialkasse

I brought the whole family with me to Germany

Moving your entire family to Germany is no mean feat. Well done on making it this far! I’d be happy to:

  • Register your whole family at your new address
  • Make phone calls to organise schools and kindergarten places
  • Help you find an apartment
  • Take you through the paperwork to apply for an apartment
  • Help you sign the rental contract and get through the apartment handover
  • Communicate with the offices for Elterngeld and Kindergeld

I’m going to buy an apartment in Germany

Coordinating a property purchase in a foreign language can be daunting. I’d love to see you sign on the dotted line and move in without a hitch. Red Tape Translation can:

  • Go with you to a consultation with a financial advisor
  • Translate your draft purchase contract into English
  • Send a qualified interpreter to your reading at the notary’s office
  • Interpret at appointments with your architect or interior designer
  • Make phone calls to organise renovations, repairs or deliveries
  • Go kitchen shopping with you

I’m pregnant

Congratulations! Don’t be nervous at the prospect of giving birth in Germany - the conditions are great and the support network is vast. Red Tape Translation would be happy to:

  • Get you up to speed on Germany Baby Bureaucracy
  • Make phone calls to hospitals, midwives, Kitas or doctors with you
  • Accompany you to your registration appointment at your hospital of choice
  • Interpret at the “acknowledgement of paternity” or “custody declaration” appointment at the Standesamt or Jugendamt
  • Organise certified translations of your birth or marriage certificates for the Standesamt

I just lost my job in Germany / I just quit

Ouch. Or hurrah? I hope it works out for the best. In the meantime, there’s a fair bit to sort out. You are supposed to register as unemployed, even if your gap between jobs is only a matter of weeks. Red Tape Translation offers discounts on many of our services relating to pending unemployment. These discounts are already integrated into the contact form. I’d love to:

  • Go with you to your meeting at the Agentur für Arbeit or the Job Center
  • If you Take a Translator to your meeting, we help you with the paperwork while you’re waiting to speak to your case worker, and/or afterwards. Otherwise, you can Hire a Coach to take you through the paperwork or online application.
  • Make phone calls or write German emails to your employer, health insurer or the Agentur für Arbeit with you
  • Translate your CV and references

We want to get married in Germany

Hey, fabulous! Congratulations are in order. Red Tape Translation has helped many couples tie the knot in Germany. I would happily support you by:

  • Coaching you on how to get married in Germany
  • Organising certified translations of your birth certificates and any other documentation the Standesamt needs to see
  • Sending an interpreter to your meetings with the civil servant (and to the ceremony!)

I just want to find a way to stay here and I don’t care how

I get it - it’s pretty easy to fall in love with Germany. I’ll support you by:

  • Coaching you on how to Settle in Berlin or in any other German city
  • Telling you which type of residence permits you’d be eligible for

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  • The entire process of getting my task done was very smooth. Kathleen is professional, responsive and can relate to the situation you are in and find the best solution for you

    Hana Zdražilová, Berlin

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