US, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand passport holders can also enter the country for ninety days (in any one year) for a tourist visit without a visa. However, you're strongly advised, if you know your stay will be longer than this, to apply for an extension visa from the local German embassy before you go. In order to extend a stay once in the country, all visitors should contact the Auslanderamt (Alien Authorities) in the nearest large town: addresses are in the phone books.

EU nationals are also entitled to work in Germany , but anyone else has to have secured a job before arrival in order to get a work permit, for which they should apply to their local German consulate or embassy. For casual labour jobs during harvests or in the hotel and catering trades, nobody is going to ask too many questions, but wages are accordingly low and the work tough.