DAAD-Portal – Apply for additional payments
Apply for additional payments
Requirements
You should have already submitted at least one application for personal funding via the Portal.
Your initial funding or your extension has to be in the "Funding" application status (see second
screenshot below).
Additional payments are valid in your funding programme.
Procedure
1.
Start by clicking on "Application and funding overview" in the "Personal Funding" tab.
2.
If you have already submitted several applications, first select the funding programme that is
currently funding you and for which you wish to submit an application for an additional
payment.
If you have already applied for an extension, select your current extension. The selected
application will then be shown in brown/orange.
3.
To navigate to the additional payments area in the portal, click on the triangle before
"Additional payments" in the navigation menu on the left. This will expand all your additional
payment options.
To apply for an additional payment it is necessary that your current funding is in the
application status "Funding".
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4.
In the additional payments area are depending on your funding programme up to six different
application forms offered for download:
"Application Subsidy German Course Spouses"
"Application Subsidy German Course"
"Application Child Allowance"
"Application Rent Subsidy"
"Application Rent Deposit"
"Application Marital Allowance"
Additionally you can download info sheets regarding the subsidy for the German course for
Spouses and the rent subsidy.
5.
To download the instructions regarding rent subsidy, please click on "Instructions Rent
Subsidy”
6.
To start the actual download, click on the link “Download Instructions Rent Subsidy” provided
in the popup window.
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7.
To download any of the three application forms click on the respective selection, for example
on "Application Child Allowance".
8.
A new popup window will be displayed with options for downloading the selected application
(and filling it out on your computer) and uploading the filled in form in a next step.
To start the download of the application template, click on the blue download link provided in
the popup window.
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In our example screenshot below we selected the Application for Child Allowance, therefore
the download would be started by clicking on "Download form Application Child Allowance".
9.
After you have downloaded, filled in and transformed the application form into a pdf file your
next step will be to start the upload process.
To do that you either continue in the same popup window if it's still open or you repeat the
steps above to open this popup window.
10.
Start by clicking on "Choose file" or "Browse" (depending on your browser) in the popup
window to select the filled in form on your computer.
Then please provide a self-explanatory name in the field document name, so the file will be
recognisable in our internal proceedings.
To ensure that we can process these attachments in our digital files, please upload
them in PDF format only. Please make sure that the PDF files you upload are NOT
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encrypted and do NOT have any commenting restrictions on them. It is also advisable
to check documents which you have already received in PDF format.
These PDFs cannot be processed in our system, so we would have to ask for the
document to be resubmitted.
11.
You will need to complete two further steps to conclude submitting the document. Please click
on "Add document" to add the application form to the list of documents.
12.
You will receive a feedback in the upper left corner of the window to confirm this.
13.
The added document will also be listed with it's name and file size at the bottom.
14.
A progress bar shows how many kilobytes have been uploaded and whether the maximum
size of all added documents has been reached.
If you would like to add more attachments for this specific application, repeat steps 10. and 11.
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15.
To submit the application for an additional payment, please click on "Send documents".
16.
You will now receive a message confirming that your attachments have been sent
successfully.
17.
A few minutes later, you will receive notification by email that there is a message for you in the
Portal. This message in the Portal will once again confirm the submission of your attachments.
It also includes the submitted application.
18.
The messaging area is also located in the "Application and Funding overview".
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19.
The messages are listed underneath the previously submitted applications/funding programme
information. Since most messages relate to specific applications/funding programmes, it is
necessary to select the application in question.
20.
To view the message, click on the arrow
in front of it. The message once again confirms
the submission and provides you with the submitted file(s) as an attachment.
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