There are no national test dates to plan around. Your naturalisation authority points you at a test centre, you agree a date with the centre directly, and the fee is the same wherever you sit it.
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This is one piece of it. See the whole journey on belonggermany.appTwenty-five euro is a flat rate written into the regulation, not a price the centre sets, so there is nothing to shop around for. A centre charging more for the test itself is charging for something other than the test.
Set it against the rest: the naturalisation application costs 255 euro per person, and 51 euro for a minor child naturalised together with a parent. BAMF says the fee can be reduced, or paid in instalments, if you earn very little or several children are being naturalised with you. The test is the cheap part of the process by a wide margin.
The centre does not mark your paper. BAMF marks centrally and issues the certificate, which is why the wait is the same wherever you sat it and why the centre cannot tell you a date.
BAMF does not publish a turnaround time. What it publishes instead, on its own Einbürgerung page, is which test date it is currently evaluating. A single line, updated as it moves. Through 2026 that line has run at roughly two months behind the sitting. If you are working to a deadline, read the line on the day rather than planning on an average, and book the test earlier in your application than feels necessary.
With an approved test centre, not with BAMF and not online centrally. Your Einbürgerungsbehörde tells you which centres serve your area, and BAMF publishes a list per Bundesland. You agree a date with the centre.
Valid photo identification. § 2 Abs. 3 EinbTestV requires the centre to check your identity against an official identity document before the paper is handed out.
25 euro per attempt, a flat rate under § 2 Abs. 1 EinbTestV. The naturalisation application itself is a separate 255 euro, or 51 euro for a minor child naturalised with a parent.
They are the same paper, run in two contexts. If you attended an integration course and scored at least 17 out of 33 in the Leben in Deutschland test, BAMF says the Zertifikat Integrationskurs proves your civic knowledge for naturalisation. You do not need to sit the Einbürgerungstest again.
You can repeat it. There is no published limit on attempts and no waiting period, and each attempt costs the fee again. BMI says well over 90 per cent of candidates have passed in recent years.
449questions, drilled module by module in the order the binding curriculum sets them, with a mistakes deck, spaced repetition and a mock at the real paper’s pace: 30 questions in 55 minutes. The mock gives you a score and no pass verdict, because three of the real 33 come from your own Bundesland and those are not ours to write.
Written by Belong Germany from the subject areas of the official catalogue. They are not BAMF’s questions, and the real sitting uses its own.
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