Eligibiliity as a Brit for B2 Bildungsgutschein from the Agentur fur Arbeit
Since I left my job last summer and have been dealing with the Agentur fur Arbeit, they had promised to pay for my B2 German course if I paid for the B1 course myself which I have now done. But now that I have requested the B2 education voucher, I am being told that I am ineligible because it's not available to EU citizens and me too because I'm British.
I have a new case worker and she's been very curt with me and hasn't given me details of why but had suggested it's a new policy. She told me to look it up online.
I am aware of the following policy but, again, I'm not an EU citizen:
I do have residency here as part of the Brexit withdrawal agreement which aimed to give some equivalence to Brits who moved before Brexit but it's not 100% equal and I can't find anything to say how it applies here.
Has anyone else encountered this issue? Have any other Brits with a Brexit Aufenthaltsdokument-GB been able to do the B2 course?
I've heard that there have been budget cuts at the AfA and there may be internal pressure to deny education funding and perhaps they have changed how they are interpreting my status.
All comments appreciated. Thank you :-)
Posted Mar 5, 2026, 11:36 AM UTC