• If you come from an EU Member State country or Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway and wish to study at HTW Berlin, you do not require a visa or a residence permit.
• If you come from another country and wish to study at HTW Berlin, you require a visa and a residence permit.

Full information can be found on the official Berlin website.

Please forward a copy of your residence permit to the Student Service Centre of HTW Berlin. To re-register for the following semester, a copy of your residence permit must be sent to HTW Berlin at the latest by the end of your first semester — this means by 30 September in the summer semester, by 31 March in the winter semester.

When you arrive in Germany, please register with the local registration office (Bürgeramt). As a rule, you have two weeks to do this. If you move within Germany at a later point in time, you will need to inform the local registration office of your new address. Full information can be found on the official Berlin website.