Kreis Herzogtum Lauenburg - Willkommen- ukrainisch, russisch

Offices and other institutions Arriving and first orientation
1) The Federal Office for Migration
and Refugees
Information in Ukrainian language, too, for people from Ukraine
who want to enter Germany and/ or to stay in Germany can
be looked up on the BAMF website at https://www.bamf.de/
DE/Themen/AsylFluechtlingsschutz/ResettlementRelocation/
InformationenEinreiseUkraine/informationen-einreise-ukrainenode.html.
Food bank ("Die Tafel")
The “Foodbank” is an institution where needy people can
purchase at fixed times food at reduced prices. Sometimes
the cost-sharing amounts to only € 1.- - € 2.- for the entire
purchase. Register there and you will get in return a correspondent
certificate.
Shopping
2) Local Social Security Office/
Residents' Registration Office
After your arrival in Germany and when you are registered at a
“Landesunterkunft” LUK (= “Regional State Accommodation
Centre”) as situated for example in Segeberg or in Neumünster,
where you will stay for a couple of days. Afterwards you will
be assigned to an administrative district (e.g. to the Herzogtum
Lauenburg [= “Duchy of Lauenburg”]) or to a town which does
not belong to an administrative district. There your future accommodation
will be assigned to you; it can be situated in a
town or in a smaller municipality. What this accommodation
will look like and where exactly it will be situated will be decided
by the correspondent Local Social Security Office. There,
you will also have to register yourself and your family at the
local Residents' Registration Office.
3) Job Centre
Please submit this Certificate of Arrival to the Job Centre. This
is competent - among others - for the payment of “Sozialleistungen”
(= “Social Welfare Services”) – (called since 01.01.2023:
“Bürgergeld” [= “Citizen's allowance”]). The Job Centre may
also inform you already about your chances to take up a job and
tell you whether you should first thing attend a language course.
4) Employment Agency
The Employment Agency helps you to get information about the
German labor market. You can register there as a person seeking
a job and you will get expert advice. Furthermore they can offer
there supporting measures. By attending these you can improve
your chances to get a job in the labor market.
5) „Worker´s Welfare Organization“,
„Deacon´s Social Welfare Work“
These independent organizations aren´t state authorities – but,
they also offer advice free of charge. In the “(Jugend-)Migrationsberatungsstellen”
(= “Advice Centres for (Young) Migrants”)
you ask questions concerning – among others - your
residence (status), family reunification, etc. You also may be
helped to understand printed forms and other paperwork and be
assisted in filling them out, if necessary. Furthermore, you can
get information there about the supply of language courses and
access to the employment market.
6) Voluntary help for refugees in
honorary capacity
Many people in Germany help refugees who live in their neigbourhood.
In many places, individuals and groups joint efforts to
welcome refugees and to help them to solve everyday problems.
These persons do not receive money for their help, they act out
of their own accord. They cannot give legal advice because they
are not experts. However, they often take people to the doctor or
to authorities, support them in their everyday routine and spend
part of their spare time with them.
7) Public Authority Responsible
for Aliens
After your stay in the Regional State Accommodation Centre,
the Public Authority Responsible for Aliens will be competent
for you in all questions concerning your right of residence. You
have to register there. As a rule, at first you will get a socalled
“Ankunftsnach-weis” (= “Certificate of Arrival”). The Public
Authority Responsible for Aliens also will issue an employment
permit (if necessary, after having consulted other authorities).
At a later point of time you will receive your “befristete Aufenthaltserlaubnis
(= “Alien´s Residence Permit Limited in Time”)
according to § 24 “Aufenthaltsgesetz” (= “German Residence
Act”).
Advice: Remember to inform all competent offices
when you move over to another residence and
inform them about your new address - and put a
name plate on the letterbox as soon as possible!
The social department store
You will find so called Six-Penny Department Stores in
many cities. Donated, well-preserved clothes, household
goods and furniture are sold there at a reasonable price.
The Clothing Store
In a Clothing Store (run for e.g. by the German Red Cross)
you can get used but well-preserved clothes, textiles and
shoes as well as smaller household and home commodities.
Everything is given for free of charge or against a
small contribution.
Advice: Ask your Local Social Security Office
or Advice Centre for Migrants for such
addresses in your region.
Opening hours
• Most shops in Schleswig-Holstein are open from Monday to
Saturday (Mon.-Sat.). Only restaurants, petrol stations and a
few other shops are allowed to open on Sunday.
• Supermarkets are usually open until 8 pm, sometimes longer.
• There are many public holidays in Germany; shops are closed
during these days, e.g. on Christmas (25. + 26. December),
Public Holiday in Commemoration of the German Unification
(3 October).
• Keep the sales vouchers if you buy expensive, durable commodities.
Often you can return an article if, for example, it is
broken when you bought it. Some shops even grant a guarantee
period during which they allow repairs or exchange. However,
this always depends on the product and the seller.
• Return empty returnable bottles to the supermarket and receive
the deposit fee (e.g. € 0.02.- - €,0.03.-, € 0.08.- - € 0.15.-
- € 0.25.-) in return! (https://www.mehrweg.org/einkaufen/
pfand/). There are various signs by which you can recognize
deposit bottles.
For example these:
Public holidays in Schleswig-Holstein
01.01.
Alternating
Alternating
01.05.
Alternating
Alternating
03.10.
31.10.
25.12.
26.12.
New Year´s Day
Good Friday
Easter Monday
Labour Day
Ascension Day
Whit Monday
Day to Commemorate the Reunification of Germany
Reformation Day
1rst Chrismas Day
2nd Christmas Day
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