Sources and what is not confirmed

Official sources and open points.

Where sources conflict or we could not confirm a fact, the text says so in italics.

Main sources

• German Embassy Tunis: national visas
• German Embassy Tunis: legalisation and certificates
• Auslandsportal (visa)
• HCCH Apostille status table
• BeschV Annex 1 (§ 38)
• BA: Triple Win Tunisia
• BA-ZAV: THAMM Plus
• GTAI: skilled-worker recruitment Tunisia
• Social security agreement DE-TN (approval act)
• DRV: Tunisia
• uni-assist: Tunisia
• AufenthG, BeschV, AufenthV, VwGO, FeV, StAG
• anabin (KMK), Recognition in Germany, Make it in Germany
• Faire Anwerbung Pflege Deutschland, Goethe-Institut Tunisia

Not confirmed or conflicting

• Visa channel for Opportunity Card, § 17 visas and the training-place channel; TLScontact service fee; dated waiting times (the Embassy page gives none).
• Tunis legalisation fee, processing time, any Tunisian pre-step, Vertrauensanwalt practice, French-language acceptance.
• WHO provisional list C.L.25.2026 and the WHO 2023 list itself (only BeschV Annex 1 was read).
• Triple Win: nursing qualification length (four-year level IV or three-year Bachelor), current ANETI call; THAMM Plus: places, trades, free language courses, visa channel.
• Doctors: language level, exam dates, Berlin procedure and fees; LAGeSo fees for nursing.
• Social security agreement: crediting and partial-pension details; Kindergeld agreement of 1991 (current rates, procedure).
• Direct university access or Studienkolleg for the Baccalauréat (anabin), translation rules, student insurance rate, semester fees.
• Tunisian exchange control, military service and exit rules, keeping Tunisian citizenship, recruitment agency rules.
• Engineer title rules, allocation of fee amounts in §§ 44/45 AufenthV, driving-school and exam fees.

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