To apply for citizenship, you must have an unlimited residence permit in Germany. You must have been living in Germany for at least eight years, habitually and legally. You must secure your livelihood for yourself and your family members without social assistance and unemployment benefits. You must have sufficient knowledge of the German language. You must have passed a citizenship test on the German legal and social order. You are not convicted of a felony. You are committed to the German Basic Law. You have lost your old citizenship or gave it up.
