A week in a refugee camp. Friedland, Germany. Camp of late migrants in Friedland Friedland what's new

The first goal after returning to historical homeland becomes a distribution camp for the city center. It opens the door to various categories of migrants: refugees, Jews, from the former USSR.

How to get to Friedland

  • It is convenient to fly to Hannover by plane, then go by train to Göttingen and then take a few minutes by train.
  • But if you fly to Leipzig, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main or Dresden, the journey won't get much longer.

German train services are excellent, with trains running quickly and frequently. Pay attention to the ticket price and arrival time.

Arrival in Friedland, building No. 16 in the background, where interviews are taking place.

It is inconvenient to travel from Russia by train. The route Berlin - Kassel - Friedland has two transfers in Germany. For a traveler laden with belongings, it’s hardly the best option to hop around train stations.

The services of private companies provide maximum comfort. Arrivals will be met at the airport or train station and taken directly to. Transfer from Hannover costs approximately 200€.

TRANSFER TO FRIEDLAND

Get to Friedland in comfort! A Russian-speaking driver will meet you at Hannover airport, help you load your luggage onto the bus and take you straight to the gates of the resettlement camp in Friedland.

ORDER TRANSFER

If you are wondering how to get to the camp late settlers cheaper - choose a bus. It takes longer and is least convenient.

What awaits you there

Friedland's task is the initial registration of newly arrived Germans and resettlement throughout the territory of Germany. The average length of stay is 3 days.

Plan of a camp for late settlers in Friedland

Working days are from Monday to Friday, but moving in new residents on weekends is not a problem. Arrive on Sunday, and start solving matters on Monday - a good option. The registration procedure takes place in building No. 1.

When you arrive at the Friedland IDP camp, you will receive a sheet with designated reception hours, forms to fill out, a key to the room, and a pass card to the dining room for the family. Everyone receives gifts from charitable organizations - clothes and dictionaries.

It is not necessary to live in the camp area. rent a hotel or stay with friends/relatives if the person agrees not to be late.

If your knowledge of German does not allow you to communicate freely, you can interview a relative or friend who speaks the language. No one will be sent back for language ignorance, but it is absolutely necessary to understand exactly what the officials are saying. It is impossible to answer unequivocally what questions are asked - everything is personal.

Check-in, document verification, medical procedures

Arriving Germans are accommodated in buildings No. 5-7. The dining room is located in building No. 4 (at the entrance they check the presence of a card and put a stamp).

Dormitory room at the camp in Friedland

The rooms and bed linen are clean. Not a hotel, but the weather doesn't work for a couple of days. Near the door to the room there is a sign on which the family's name, the number of residents and the date of arrival are written.

In building No. 16, late migrants undergo a check of papers and personal data specified in the application form.

What documents need to be prepared for the first appointment:

  1. Completed forms
  2. Aufnahmebescheid
  3. Passports and birth and marriage certificates of family members

The questionnaire indicates the desired place of residence in Germany, which is discussed at the second interview.

Residents of the Friedland camp undergo fluorography during their stay. On the appointed day, the group is collected in the morning and taken by bus to Göttingen, where medical examinations are carried out.

An example of lunch in the Friedland camp canteen

About health insurance and assistance

From the moment of arrival until distribution, everything you need health care is provided free of charge. After registration for permanent residence for the first 78 weeks, the regional AOK fund is responsible for health insurance, regardless of status and benefits.

  • Further, state insurance for the unemployed is paid by the state.
  • Employees can continue to work at AOK or change companies at their own discretion.
  • Entrepreneurs choose between private and voluntary insurance.

Registrierschein

After completing the interviews at the Friedland IDP camp and signing the distribution documents, a registration certificate is issued and free tickets to your place of residence.

In the dormitories of the Friedland camp there are children's corners for games in bad weather.

Persons with §4 who were born before 1956 are entitled to a one-time compensation - Eingliederungshilfe. The size varies depending on the date of birth and ranges from 2000-3000 €. You can receive money in Friedland or upon arrival for permanent residence.

From camp to home

The choice of federal state and city is limited by availability free seats and budget.

  • The south and center of Germany are overpopulated with refugees.
  • Russian Germans are often offered the north of Germany.
  • You can get to the desired land if you have relatives who are ready to register you with them.

The result of the distribution depends greatly on the official. Personal charm will have to be turned on at full strength. If the city does not have a budget for benefits, new arrivals are denied in any case.

They will be assigned to the selected location if you own your own property in the country or voluntarily refuse social benefits.

Become a German citizen

You are allocated a room in a hostel or an apartment paid for by social services.

Further actions:

  1. The first step is to contact the city hall - Rathaus, and register in Germany.
  2. A copy of the registration confirmation received must be sent to Camp Friedland at BVA.
  3. You will be sent a certificate of late migration - Spätaussiedlerbescheinigung, upon receipt of which you become citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The time has come to issue German passports - the mayor's office is responsible for issuing them. But first, you are allowed to contact the registry office - Standesamt to change the spelling of names and surnames in the German manner. The procedure is performed once free of charge, then correcting the letter costs 200 €.

Important! Children born between their arrival in Friedland and their parents' receipt of settlement certificates do not receive German citizenship. Perhaps in the future the legal issue will be corrected, but for now it is better for late-term pregnant women not to leave before giving birth in order to avoid bureaucratic red tape that takes several years. Moving in with a newborn does not bring any problems. The birth of a child after one of the parents has received a certificate also automatically gives the baby German citizenship.

Read more about financial and housing issues

It's difficult to get out of the hostel. You will be offered social apartments if there are any available, but in most cases you will have to look for housing on your own.

The apartment must meet the payment terms for low-income people. The specific sizes depend on the city; Jobcenter is responsible for paying for housing for those who are able to work, and Sozialamt for those who are not able to work. It is necessary to coordinate actions with the department. If everything complies with the rules, you receive payment guarantees and can move out of the hostel.

You will have to communicate with social service officials from day one. Jobcenter issues forms for able-bodied family members to register with the labor exchange.

  • Those who can work are paid unemployment.
  • Those who are unable to work apply for benefits at Sozialamt.
  • For children under 18 who have moved, Kindergeld benefits are issued.

Relocation under §4 opens up the right to re-credit the pension earned in former USSR. To confirm the length of service, you will need a work book and a PF certificate from the country of departure on the amount of contributions paid. The papers must be given to the state pension fund - Rentenversicherung.

To deposit money, you must open an account in a German bank.

Depending on the land and the specific banking institution, it may be necessary to obtain a tax number. This issue is resolved at the mayor's office or directly at the tax office - Finanzamt.

After completing the procedures, 102 € will be credited for each family member. They partially compensate for the journey to the refugee camp in Germany.

If you provide proof of travel expenses above this amount, you may be eligible for more compensation. Arrival by car is also subject to compensation. Keep proof of purchase of tickets, gasoline, and any transportation expenses to Friedland.

  • After distribution and receipt of passports, you are allowed to move to any city you wish. But the housing issue will have to be resolved independently.
  • Social benefits and the right to attend integration courses are retained in full.
  • Those receiving benefits must make prior arrangements with the authorities of the city where they are moving to in order to continue receiving social assistance and housing payments. An unapproved move may result in loss of benefits.

Advanced training and German language

If you immigrate with an engineering degree, the camp will refer you to the Otto Benecke Foundation. The organization provides free scholarships to engineers arriving from Eastern European countries. With this money, a technical specialist can improve his qualifications or retrain in the German way at one of the higher educational institutions with which the fund has entered into an agreement. Migrants under 31 years of age receive assistance with the recognition of diplomas.

With a registration certificate you can take free integration courses lasting six months. For permission to take courses, please contact the Office for Foreigners - Ausländeramt. If the distance to the venue is more than 3 kilometers, a free pass for public transport is included.

The course volume is 600 hours (an additional module on basic life issues in the country is optional). The content roughly repeats the content of this site, only in German.

It is unrealistic for a working person to take courses; there is simply nowhere to get so much time.

The history of the camp in Friedland

The camp was created in this town not by chance. It was built immediately after the war. We chose a place at the junction of 3 occupation zones: British, Soviet and American.

  • At first, former prisoners returning from the USSR were settled there.
  • Then they were used to receive defectors from the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • Since 1980, migrants from the Soviet Union began to be resettled, and then people with German “roots”.

Previously, there were several such camps for the resettlement of ethnic Germans, but then the migration flow dried up, and this moment Only Friedland remains open.

Frequently asked questions and discussion of the PP topic on the forum

Based on materials from the site www.tupa-germania.ru

The reception camp for the late settlers of Friedland was located in a small village on the southern outskirts of the federal state of Lower Saxony in Germany. The camp is subordinate to the federal agency BVA. Late settlers who have received Aufnahmebescheid arrive at this camp for initial registration and completion of the initiated procedures under the late settler program.

Camp Friedland - personal experience

My arrival at the Friedland camp was in November 2014. At that time there was a huge influx of refugees and the camp was overcrowded. As a result, they could not accommodate me in the camp - there were no places. At the expense of the federal department, I was accommodated in a hotel located in a neighboring town. In total, the procedures in the camp took about a week, after which I was already assigned to the city where I live now.

The Friedland resettlement camp accepts new residents on weekdays and weekends. You can find the resettlement camp at: Bundesverwaltungsamt - Außenstelle Friedland, Heimkehrerstr. 16, 37133 Friedland, Germany. The registration itself and the work hours of officials are from Monday to Friday. You will only have to communicate with officials and camp workers in German. If your knowledge does not allow this, you should think about a relative or friends who can help in this situation. Understanding officials is simply vital.
You will be provided with clean bed linen, keys to the room in the camp, and a sheet indicating the authorities that you will need to go through. The Friedland late migrant camp is, of course, not a five-star hotel, but it is quite possible to stay there for a couple of days. We'll talk more about interviews, procedures and questionnaires below.

Fluorography

First of all, they send you to a neighboring town for fluorography. At the clinic we found ourselves in, four people entered different doors at a time, so the line went very quickly and did not cause any inconvenience. You find yourself alone in the room, so you calmly shoot up and move on. Upon completion, get dressed and go out to the others. After finishing X-raying adults, doctors begin examining children. Children are not given x-rays - they are examined by therapists, ENT specialists and other doctors. Upon completion, you will be provided with a certificate with the result of your examination and you will return to the Friedland camp

Initial registration

Afterwards, you will have to visit the BVA federal office. It is located right in the Friedland camp. They will provide questionnaires with questions written in German (explanations in Russian can be found below each question) - it is important to remember that the questionnaires must be filled out exclusively in German. A rough list of questions looks like this:

  • FULL NAME
  • Age
  • Where are you from?
  • Education
  • Work experience (where and when and by whom did you work)
  • Relatives in Germany, where they live
  • Religion
  • Where would you like to live in Germany

The forms are handed over to officials and there will be several hours of waiting. Next, they call the official, the forms and documents are checked. They ask questions, but this is not just a sincere conversation - everything is entered into the computer.

Allocation to permanent residence

A few days later I again had a meeting with an official of the federal department. This was a different official than the one who registered me. It turned out that they had been looking for me since the morning, but I was at the hotel and did not know about it. In the office, the official asked me where I would like to live - in which city and land. I asked to go to the city to visit my relatives and he sent a request to that city about the opportunity to receive me, asking me to sit in the waiting room in the meantime. After an hour of waiting, I was called back into his office. On his desk he already had ready-made documents stating that I had been registered at the Friedland camp, a direction to and a direction to the hostel of the city where I was assigned. They settled me in a different city than where I originally asked. Now I live 400 km from the city where I wanted to go.

The choice of city and land where you would like to live is limited - it all depends on the city’s ability to accept you. There is a high probability of living where you would like, if you have relatives in this city and the opportunity to register you with them at least for the first time, not yet.

Final stage

The last thing I visited in the Friedland late migrant camp was the Jobcenter. There they also gave me a certain questionnaire, which I later submitted to Jobcenter in my city. So they began to accrue me a “late resettlement allowance.” Later, I notified the camp management that all procedures were completed and I was given 110 euros - partial compensation for the cost of the flight to Germany. They also bought me a train ticket so I could get to the city. In the morning I handed over the keys to the room, received a few more documents and went to the station. This was the end of my stay in the Friedland displaced persons camp.





We were flying from Siberia. The tickets were for March 3 to Dusseldorf. We deliberately bought tickets not to Hanover, for a trivial reason - tickets to Dusseldorf cost us 300...350 euros for two, the same tickets to Hannover would have cost 500 euros+.
Besides, we were just interested in seeing this city. We booked a cheap but very decent hotel near Hauptbahnhof. We took a break after the flights/transfers and at lunchtime boarded the train to Friedland. Tickets and discount card bahncard 25: ordered from the Russian Federation in advance. Everything was very simple and convenient. On the evening of the 4th we were already in Friedland. We moved into the 5th barrack. The people in Friedland are in darkness. There are 20-30 displaced people and 200-250 refugees. At the end of our stay there, several refugees were moved into a barracks with displaced people, since there was simply no room. Enough has already been said about Friedland itself, the food there, the conditions, etc. - a small, beautiful, clean and tidy town. The only thing I can note is the kind of “cadres” one encounters among the displaced people—it’s quiet darkness. Sitting on the “courts”, near the barracks, drinking beer from the throat and husking sunflower seeds right there on the ground - these gentlemen were not at all embarrassed.
Distribution.
Since we had no relatives, there were few options to get to Bavaria or NRV. This was actually confirmed during the meeting with the berator. He simply showed a list of all lands and quotas for each. Berator fortunately spoke English, although worse than us))). We approached the issue openly. We just asked what we wanted to do in a big city and what would they advise us as IT specialists? They seemed to be impressed and said that Thuringia, Brandenburg, Pomerania and Saxony-Anhalt and the north would not suit us in any way, since these are practically only agricultural regions. They recommended Saxony. We didn’t bother too much and agreed. When we came to the berator on the next term, he said that we were not going to Leipzig, but UNDER Leipzig, which I didn’t like at all (he said that in Leipzig all the cities are full), and after he gave the exact address and I googled where it was and how a slight shock came over us.
Near Leipzig there was a very small town called Wurzen, it was unexpected, but not so scary. It turned out that Heim is located in the village of Trebelshain, 6 km from this very Wurzen. And there is no transport, no store or bakery. Even the connection there worked poorly. We arrived there on March 11th.
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The nearest transport is an electric train, the stop of which is 2 km from this “farm”. 2 km along a windswept road just to go to Wurzen and buy groceries.
We experienced the biggest shock when the housemaster of this place finally brought us there.
Cold, 2-storey building in the style of "welcome to the USSR and the GDR", a half-wall map of the USSR from the GDR. Cast iron batteries and furniture from the USSR. Dust, cobwebs. Bunk beds. The image was completed by a view from the window of a barn with sheep that were grazing there outside the window, as well as a note written in Russian and pasted above the urinal in the men’s toilet - “don’t flatter yourself - come closer!”










It was clear that they were very rarely sent to this prison last years. Besides us, there was only one family from Kazakhstan, who moved out a few days after we arrived.
Despite all the obvious disadvantages of this place and this area, there were also advantages, as it turned out later.
1. Housemaster. An elderly German, Herr Herberdt, 65 years old. He helped with everything, drove him everywhere in his car. It was clear that he knew all the procedures perfectly. He spoke only German with a hellish dialect, which we learned to barely understand. I helped fill out all the entrags, commenting on every difficult line or word in the entrags.
2. Speed ​​of bureaucracy. On the second day in Heim we visited the Job Center and the Burgersamt. On the third day, we already had German temporary annual passports (Reisepassen) and an open account in Sparkasse. A week later we had the spark pass cards in our hands, and a week later we already received late migrant certificates from Friedland.
3. Khaim was, one might say, empty, and therefore we could quite easily manage a huge kitchen with a bunch of dishes, essentially designed for 10-15 families and a huge dining room. We lived in a room on the second floor and we had a personal bathroom (very clean, I must say), where we could easily leave all our washing supplies.
4. The absence of refugees (refugees) was a positive factor. I have a normal attitude towards people of the East, but let’s say different approaches to hygiene in Russia and, say, Afghanistan, as well as religious aspects, would create certain inconveniences.
Search for an apartment.
As soon as our neighbors from Kazakhstan, with the help of our relatives, found an apartment and moved out of the village, we also became concerned about finding housing. The well-known site http://www.immobilienscout24.de came to the rescue
We wrote a very polite letter in German, explaining who we are and what we want, and I began methodically sending out requests to apartments that interested us and met social standards. Previously, I studied which areas of Leipzig it is definitely better not to go into, and which ones are good (why do you need the Turkish quarter for example?!). The fact is that farmers are very reluctant to rent out apartments to applicants receiving ALG-II social benefits, which almost all of us, displaced people at first, are (and this point must be discussed when looking for housing - otherwise you will simply waste time/ride in vain). The 30 messages sent received 3 or 4 replies. We looked at the apartments and chose one. Fermiter was a private trader, not a broker. This was his home. Among other things, the farmer spoke English well, which improved mutual understanding by 5 times.
The bottom line. On March 3rd we landed in Germany, and on April 1st we moved into an apartment in a wonderful and big city Leipzig. There are courses ahead... and much more. I don’t presume to judge myself, since I have no experience, but a friend of mine who has lived here for many years said that everything worked out FANTASTICALLY quickly. If anyone has questions, write in a personal message, I can help you. Good luck to all!

Auf Wiedersehen!

Friedland is a small, very small town in Lower Saxony, just 14 kilometers from Göttingen. My relatives brought me there straight from the airport - so that I could get used to it and complete all the necessary formalities.

I saw there a cluster of small one-story yellow buildings, which were recommended to me in advance as barracks. It was late, so they simply gave me the keys to the room and a card that would be used to give me food, and told me where and when I should come in the morning to check in.

The rooms there are four-bed, with four iron beds and four closets that can be locked with a key. But there were very few people (after all, almost everyone left the CIS before the mid-2000s), so I lived alone in my room all week, walked along the quiet corridors, boiled tea in the empty kitchen. By the way, the kettles there are secured in place with some kind of locks: either to prevent them from being stolen, or to prevent them from being turned on in the rooms, violating fire safety rules. Apparently, the Germans do not really believe in the presence of legal awareness among newly arrived people.

It seems that in the barracks people are grouped according to their nationality. There are a couple of almost empty buildings for people coming from Russia and Kazakhstan (there are many more of the latter) and there are a lot of other buildings densely populated by people with a less European appearance. Of course, blacks (from Somalia and somewhere else) and, of course, Arabs (those from Syria and Libya). They all gather three times a day at the same time, in the same place. At the entrance to the dining room, at 7.00, 11.30 and 16.30. They gather in advance, in a very dense crowd at the very doors, and when the guard opens the door (and he does this with an invariably disgusted expression on his face), they rush inside, pushing each other away. In fact, there is enough food for everyone, and it’s not worth it (and the food is frankly bad), but people still worry.

I can’t help but say something else about cultural features: near the Friedland train station, right on the asphalt, during one walk I saw a pile of human excrement. All around is the usual German cleanliness, but here - this. I suspect that the culprit of the incident was not an indigenous resident at all... And a photograph of another “non-indigenous”, namely a Somali, hangs in all administrative buildings. The man became famous for stabbing someone to death right there in the camp, and has still not been found.

But in general, refugees are a fairly calm crowd, and many of them try to behave correctly. For example, they say "sorry", "thank you" or "hello" depending on the situation, in German or English. They don’t jump ahead of their turn (well, almost never). And there was still only one unpleasant discovery, although I walked around the entire town many times in an attempt to unwind.

True, most of the “immigrants” are still very dissatisfied with Germany’s migration policy. After standing in a general queue, under advertisements in Chinese, Polish and four varieties of Arabic, looking at pregnant black women with a couple of other children clinging to their hems, at uncontrolled Arab boys running, screaming and studying the world around them with great interest, the Russians (or “Russians,” the devil knows) start conversations over food on a limited range of topics: “why are they letting all these people in?”, “look, look at that face!” and even “the German race has completely degenerated.”

Refugees live in the camp, as I understand it, for a long time. There are also courses for them German language. But the migrants live in Friedland for an average of four days until they receive necessary documents. First - registration. “First you need to be unmelted,” experienced people say, following the established fashion, which is unpleasant for me, of inserting German words modified in the Russian manner into Russian speech. Each migrant is given a “runner” with a list of all places and actions, and the process begins.

First you need to go to Göttingen for an x-ray. People with open tuberculosis are, of course, not expelled from Germany: they are sent to a specialized camp located somewhere nearby, and treated there. And then you need to go around five more offices in the camp itself, and go into some more than once. This takes three days. Officials must record information about education and work experience, conclude an agreement to receive benefits, and find out whether there are places in the federal land where the migrant wants to go. By the way, I wasn’t very lucky with this: my relatives live in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, but these lands are the most popular, and at least in those days people were sent there only if there were siblings or children-parents there. Uncles and aunts are not close enough relatives, alas. So I was given a choice between Mecklenburg-Pomerania and Saxony. The top one, that is. I, of course, chose the second one.

Yes, I almost forgot: the favorite topic of conversation in queues in front of offices is German officials. I must admit, this surprised me. Oh just now abandoned Russia, in which this is clearly worse, no one remembers, but they complain about the Germans. They work slowly, just for show, are not very friendly, and do not receive you at the appointed time. The latter, by the way, is true. Moreover, it happened that they scheduled an appointment for early morning - at 7.30, for example, and forced me to wait until ten.

Here you go. They assigned me Saxony as my place of residence and asked me to live in Friedland for three more days until a place became available here. It was Friday-Sunday, so there was simply no one in the Russian barracks. At all. To entertain myself, I went to Göttingen, then went to Kassel, and on Monday at six in the morning I received a ticket upon discharge from the camp and went east - with transfers in Schneewald, Halle, Leipzig, Dresden and Pirna.

Finally, photos from my building.

Next to each door they write the names and number of people (at the top, of course; at the bottom - the room number):


Skylight:

The map was very relevant:

Warning about telephone scammers:

Kitchen:

This hangs over the sink:

Two such structures stand in each room:

After arriving in Germany, I, like all late migrants, had to arrive at the camp of late migrants in Friedland.

I would like to start with the fact that I flew all night on the plane, since this was the first time in my life that I was not able to sleep on the plane. And so, having arrived at the camp at 12 noon, I, sleepy and powerless, planned to quickly get the key and fall asleep where I would be accommodated. The first step was to visit the commandant to somehow inform about yourself and get the keys. Since it was 12 noon, the commandant said that she had lunch. She asked me to wait and sit in the corridor. This is where the fun began. Returning half an hour later, the commandant began calling everyone except me over the speakerphone. After sitting for another two hours waiting, I felt like I was going to collapse and fall asleep right in the corridor, and besides, I really wanted to eat. Unable to bear it, I went ahead, upon entering I gave my call, my passport and asked to be processed. The commandant handed my papers to the girl sitting next to me at the computer, apparently an employee of a federal department. It took me a long time to write something down and return the documents to the commandant. Then the commandant gives me the papers and declares that there is no room in the camp and they are ready to put me up in a hotel or offered to stay with my closest relatives. My closest relatives lived in Bavaria and therefore I agreed to a hotel without hesitation. Again they asked me to wait in the corridor. And after sitting until 16.30, afraid to go anywhere, they would suddenly call me, a young girl comes out and says that I can take my suitcase, in 10 minutes her colleague will take me to the hotel. Having taken the suitcase, an older man met me, opened the trunk and I, putting my luggage there, tiredly sat down in the back seat. We drove for about 20 minutes and stopped at some village, as it turned out later it was resort town, we stopped near some hotel. I pulled out my luggage and followed the man, he came up to the reception, said a few words, pointed his finger at me, and left. I went up to the reception and they asked me a couple of questions whether I smoked or something like that. Then they said what time it was for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Nodding my head wearily, I climbed into my room. It was surprisingly nice, a wonderful shower, a TV, but it was cold, very cold... then I learned that I had to turn on the batteries myself. Having turned on the battery, I took a shower and at 18 pm I fell asleep without my hind legs and slept until lunch the next day. After lunch, I saw that I was not the only Russian speaker. Besides me, 3 other families of late migrants lived in the hotel. We all met and talked for a couple of days until we were told at one of the breakfasts that tomorrow at 10 am a bus would pick us up and take us to the procedures. The next day, at exactly 10, a bus arrived with about 20 people and us. The girl announced on a voice recorder throughout the bus that there is now war in Syria and therefore there are many refugees in the camp, asked us to sympathize with them and said that the employees are no less interested than us in getting us processed quickly. Then I called everyone on the bus by last name and noted who was there and who wasn’t. My last name was already there. Afterwards, she walked around the bus and gave everyone a form and a slider in which it was written who we needed to visit.

Fluorography

First of all, we arrived in a neighboring town where the same girl who was on the bus took us to Fluorography. Entering the hospital, we were led into a corridor with 4 doors. One person went into each of them; when I went there, I found myself in a small room, as I understood, I had to undress there. Having taken off my outer clothing, I opened the next door and there the doctor led me to the machine and asked me not to breathe. Literally a couple of minutes later he nodded his head as if as a sign that everything was done and I got dressed again and went out to everyone. We were asked to be in one place and not disperse. Having gone through everything Fluorography the same girl said that now the children will be examined. For children Fluorography didn't do it. The children were examined by therapists and ENT specialists... Everyone passed the examination safely, everyone was given the results and we were taken to Friedland.

Initial registration

Then we were taken to the federal department, where they told us to fill out the forms that they gave us on the bus. It is written there in German and below in Russian, but fill it out exclusively in German. There were questions like this:

  1. FULL NAME
  2. Age
  3. Where
  4. Education
  5. Work experience, where and when and by whom did you work?
  6. Relatives in Germany, where they live
  7. Religion
  8. Where would I like to live in Germany

And everything like that. Afterwards we were called by name and taken into the office of an official who checked our forms and entered the data into the computer.

Afterwards we were put on a bus and taken to our hotels.

Secondary registration

Literally a couple of days later they called us and said that a minibus would arrive and to be ready with our things. The next day we were brought to the camp with our things. There they gave me the key to the room and told me to go back to the building of the federal department for term. When I got there I found out that they had been looking for me since the morning. I said that I had arrived and literally 30 minutes later the official who called me was not the same as in the first term, there was another official and he already took me to his office and there he also filled out something and then said that he had submitted a request to the land and city where I want to live. I asked me to sit and wait. After sitting for about an hour, he called me again and already gave me documents that I had passed registration, directions to courses and directions to the dormitory where I would live. It turned out that the city was not where I wanted, but completely different. 400 km from the city where I wanted to live. Well, here I was powerless, so after thanking for everything, I retired to my room in the camp.

Final stage

The next day I visited the Job Center where they filled out a form for me and gave it to me so that I could give it to my place of residence. Then, going to the commandant, I gave my documents and said that I was leaving, they asked me to wait, after 30 minutes they called me and showed me a train ticket and said that they would give it to me tomorrow. They gave me 110 euros, partial compensation for my expenses for coming to Germany. After spending the night in the camp, at 7 am I came to the commandant and gave me the keys and in return I received a train ticket and a bunch of other papers that were useful in the city where I lived.

This is approximately the stage all late migrants go through in the camp in Friedland. In the following articles I will talk about adaptation in the city, the first steps that will undoubtedly be useful to you. And I'll give you some practical advice.

 

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