Information regarding the Application
for an au pair-Visa
for the Federal Republic of Germany
The visa application must be submitted personally by the applicant on the day of the scheduled appointment
(see Information leaflet on appointments) at the Embassy.
The Embassy will not accept visa applicants without an appointment.
Only citizens who require visas to enter Germany and who are residing permanently in the Philippines, the Marshall Islands,
Micronesia or Palau may apply for their visa with the German Embassy in Manila (Table of countries whose citizens
require/do not require visas to enter Germany).
Please note that the au pair occupation is allowed only, if this is clearly permitted in the visa, because the au pair occupation
is a form of employment.
The requirements for the approval for an au pair stay are:
Age limits: at least 18 years / at most 26 years of age (when the visa application is submitted)
Basic knowledge of the au pair of the German language
At least one of the host parents must speak German as a mother language
Duration of the au pair relationship: at least 6 months / at most 1 year
At least one under-age child (minor) in the host family
No kinship between the au pair and the host parents.
The Federal Employment Office informs on their homepage with regard to au pair stays and the rights and obligations of the
host families and the au pair involved with these stays. By typing “au pair” in the search function you will find information for
host families and au pairs, as well as the sample contract.
Multilingual information regarding au pair residences and au pair agencies with the seal of quality of the au pair quality control
association („Gütegemeinschaft Au pair e.V.“) are available on the homepage in the download-center.
The following list allows you to check, by ticking off the boxes, whether you have
all the documents needed for the visa application:
valid passport (original with two copies of the passport data page), which must contain two empty pages and be valid for
at least 3 months after the planned duration of stay
Two (2) application forms duly filled in completely (can be obtained at the reception area of the Embassy or
downloaded from our website);
Three (3) identical and current passport pictures (for picture format see Information about passport pictures). Two (2)
of these pictures must each be glued to the application forms, the fourth must be attached with a paper clip to the
passport (please do not staple). The applicant must write his or her complete name and date of birth on the back of
the picture;
Birth certificate (if born in the Philippines: issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on SECURITY PAPER