By all means, please familiarize yourself with this visa category and its requirements HERE first. Then, please prepare your visa application as explained in this checklist.

At a glance, these are the main requirements you have to fulfill:

• You have a valid au-pair contract with a hosting family in Germany.
• Your hosting family is not of Pakistani origin and consistis of at least one child under the age of 18 years. You are not related to the family.
• You are between the age of 18 and 27 years old.
• You have never done an au-pair in Germany before.
• You have German language proficiency level A1 CEFR.