Where Drift gets information
Drift uses selected official legislation and government information for general immigration explanations. Drift pages describe our own service. A public web page is not automatically approved as a source.
Official sources linked to Drift
- Citizenship for spouses of Germans: StAG §9 · Federal Ministry of Justice / Federal Office of Justice · Germany
- General naturalisation requirements: StAG §10 · Federal Ministry of Justice / Federal Office of Justice · Germany
- Residence applications and pending renewals: AufenthG §81 · Federal Ministry of Justice / Federal Office of Justice · Germany
- EU Blue Card: AufenthG §18g · Federal Ministry of Justice / Federal Office of Justice · Germany
- University study: AufenthG §16b · Federal Ministry of Justice / Federal Office of Justice · Germany
- Self-employment and freelance residence: AufenthG §21 · Federal Ministry of Justice / Federal Office of Justice · Germany
- Spouse reunification with foreign nationals: AufenthG §30 · Federal Ministry of Justice / Federal Office of Justice · Germany
- Settlement permit: AufenthG §9 · Federal Ministry of Justice / Federal Office of Justice · Germany
- Delayed administrative decisions: VwGO §75 · Federal Ministry of Justice / Federal Office of Justice · Germany
- Asylum court proceedings: AsylG §74 · Federal Ministry of Justice / Federal Office of Justice · Germany
- Opportunity Card: AufenthG §20a · Federal Ministry of Justice / Federal Office of Justice · Germany
- Qualified academic employment: AufenthG §18b · Federal Ministry of Justice / Federal Office of Justice · Germany
- Legal-aid conditions: Beratungshilfegesetz §1 · Federal Ministry of Justice / Federal Office of Justice · Germany
- Online national visa applications: Federal Foreign Office · Federal Foreign Office · Germany
- Help with legal costs: Justiz-Services · Federal Ministry of Justice / DigitalService · Germany
- Berlin service: Fiktionsbescheinigung · Berlin State Office for Immigration · Berlin only
How sources are checked
Each approved record has a publisher, exact link, jurisdiction, review date, expiry and a fingerprint of its text. Sources with missing approval, an expired review or altered approved text are excluded. Berlin instructions are restricted to Berlin questions. Ordinary visa refusals do not use asylum-specific rules.
The records listed here were reviewed on 24 September 2026. Review periods are 14 days for Berlin service instructions and 30 days for the other active sources. These dates are source-maintenance controls, not a claim of continuous monitoring or legal certification.
What a citation means
Drift links the sources used for an explanation. A source link does not confirm your eligibility, authorise travel or work, calculate your legal deadline or replace a lawyer’s assessment. Automated checks can still miss errors.
When a source cannot be verified
An unsupported explanation is withheld and the conversation can be reviewed. Discovered pages and pages returning access checks are not used automatically. Drift does not browse or adopt a website simply because someone pastes a link.
