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Freelance, Business and PR Support in Germany

You made it here, and the system keeps going: freelance registration, business registration, the day you finally qualify for permanent residence. The rules exist, on official sites, in a form nobody turns into a plan for your case.

Tick the wrong box at registration and you can owe trade tax and chamber fees you never needed to. Apply for PR before your qualifying date and you pay the fee to be told no.

№ 01Try the engine free

Your PR horizon, roughly, right now

The legal month counts, from the same engine as our free citizenship timeline. Your real date depends on the permit history this form cannot see.

Free PR horizon§18c / §9 AufenthG
PR possible fromDecember 2026

21 months with B1 German (§18c AufenthG), the fastest PR in Germany

The date is only as real as the months behind it: permit gaps, time abroad and benefit history all move it, and this form cannot see yours. The Readiness Review reads your actual permit history and puts the date in writing.

Same engine as the free citizenship timeline. No email, no signup.

№ 02What we take off your plate

Three doors. You probably need one.

These are parallel, not a bundle: registering as a freelancer, registering a business, and knowing your PR date are different Tuesdays. Pick the one that is yours.

Written report · 48 h

€99

PR & Citizenship Readiness Review

You know the exact date you qualify.

  1. You send your visa history
  2. We calculate your date
  3. Plan in 48 hours

Live · 60-minute session

€149

Freelancer Registration Walkthrough

Registered, without a costly wrong box.

  1. You book an hour
  2. We fill the form together
  3. You submit it yourself

Live · 60-minute session

€149

Business Registration Walkthrough

Your Gewerbe registered and understood.

  1. You book an hour
  2. We walk the Gewerbeamt steps
  3. You register with confidence

Not sure which one your case needs? Answer three questions and get an ordered plan instead of a guess.

№ 03What you get back

See what your money buys, before you pay

Fragebogen zur steuerlichen ErfassungThe box that decides

Art der ausgeübten Tätigkeit

FreiberuflichNo trade tax, no IHK membership, no Gewerbeanmeldung.
GewerblichTrade tax above the allowance, IHK fees, a second registration.

Which one you are is a legal question about YOUR work, not a preference. Designers, developers and teachers sit near the line, and the Finanzamt decides differently case by case. This is the box the session settles before you tick it.

The real form’s decisive field, rendered as a sample. The walkthrough goes through yours, live.
№ 04A case, worked

How a case like yours goes

Worked example · Already in GermanyNot a customer’s data

The situation

Backend developer in Munich, EU Blue Card since March 2025, B1 certificate passed in June. Wondering, vaguely, when permanent residence becomes possible.

What the review finds

  • With B1, the Blue Card track reaches PR at 21 months (§18c AufenthG): eligibility lands December 2026, a date, not a feeling.
  • The pension record (Rentenversicherung) has to prove those months: easy to assemble now, painful to reconstruct later.
  • Munich appointment lead times mean the application window is booked months ahead of the date.

The plan that comes back

NowDocument list started: passport, contracts, pension record, B1 certificate, insurance history.

3 months beforeAusländerbehörde appointment booked for the eligibility month.

December 2026Application filed the month the clock lands, not a year after it.

Where it lands

PR arrives when the law first allows it. The difference between knowing the date and guessing it is usually a year of unnecessary waiting.

A worked example, built the way real reports are. The details are representative of cases we see, not a customer’s.

21 mo

Blue Card to PR, with B1

27 mo

Blue Card to PR, with A1

5 yrs

Standard citizenship residence

€13.90

Mindestlohn, 2026

Verified · Updated July 2026§18c AufenthGBMI

No legal or tax advice, nothing filed on your behalf, no promised outcomes, no commissions from anyone: the full list of what we will not do. Checkout runs on Stripe, no account needed, everything arrives by email.

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Abdullah, creator of Ankommo

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Abdullah

Creator of Ankommo · Based in Germany

I moved to Germany and built Ankommo to help others navigate the same process I went through. We offer 1-on-1 video consultations on visas, Ausbildung applications, citizenship requirements and settling in.

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