What the first year costs, and when you are asked for it
Money and scholarships15 min readOfficial sourcePremium
Verified10/21/2026auswaertiges-amt.de
The first year is not one figure per year but five waves of payments arriving in a particular order, in different months. The largest is needed before all the others. The order in which money is asked for, what gets refunded, and where it most often runs short.
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