Advertising and affiliate links

Some links on this website are advertising links, also called affiliate or partner links. If you click one and sign up with that company, we receive a commission from them. You pay exactly the same price as you would going there directly, and you never pay anything extra because you came through us.

How these links are marked

German law asks us to make commercial intent recognisable at the place of the link, not only somewhere in the imprint. That is why every partner link on this site carries a visible "Advertising / affiliate link" label and a short note explaining the commission, right next to the button.

Our current partners

  • Expatrio ↗ — Blocked account and student health insurance

    One package that gives you the blocked account and the health insurance the embassy asks for, so both visa documents arrive together.

  • N26 ↗ — First German bank account

    A free German IBAN you can open from your phone with your passport, no Schufa record and no branch appointment needed.

  • Fintiba ↗ — Blocked account, opened fully online

    The longest running blocked account provider for Germany, with fast confirmation letters that embassies recognise immediately.

How we choose what to recommend

We only mark a service as a recommended partner when we used it ourselves during this move or saw it work reliably for people we helped. The commission never decides the ranking: every comparison table on this site keeps the alternatives listed with the same detail, including options that pay us nothing, so you can still compare fees and pick something else.

Cookies and data when you click

Clicking a partner link takes you to that company's own website. The partner or its tracking network normally sets a cookie or a click identifier so the sign up can be attributed to us. That happens on their side and is covered by their privacy policy, not ours. We never receive your name, your documents or your account details from them, only anonymous statistics about how many sign ups came from this site.

Our own products stay separate

Our paid guides, packs and calls are our own products and have nothing to do with the partner companies. Partner links are always shown as a separate block so you can tell at a glance what is ours and what is advertising.*