A Spouse Needs German Before Arriving, and the Sponsor Needs the Right Permit
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Mexico on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
98 exceptions recorded across 37 countries · none match Mexico to Germany · Residency through marriage
Germany's spouse route has three conditions on its face and the second is unusual: both spouses must be eighteen, the spouse joining must be able to communicate in German at least in a simple way, and the sponsor must hold one of the listed titles - a settlement permit, a long-term EU residence permit, certain research and protection permits, or a residence permit held for two years that is not barred from leading to settlement. The language requirement sits before the move rather than after it, which is what distinguishes this from most of the family provisions recorded in this corpus.
At a glance
- Minimum age
- 18 for both spouses
Section 30(1) number 1 writes it as "das 18. Lebensjahr vollendet", quoted below.
- German before arrival
- Enough to communicate in a simple way
Section 30(1) number 2.
- What the sponsor must hold
- A settlement permit, a long-term EU permit, certain research or protection permits, or a two-year residence permit
- Two-year permits
- Only if not barred from leading to a settlement permit
Requirements
- Both spouses at least eighteen
- The joining spouse able to communicate in German at least in a simple way
- The sponsor holding one of the residence titles the section lists
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Mexico
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Dem Ehegatten eines Ausländers ist eine Aufenthaltserlaubnis zu erteilen, wenn 1. beide Ehegatten das 18. Lebensjahr vollendet haben, 2. der Ehegatte sich zumindest auf einfache Art in deutscher Sprache verständigen kann und 3. der Ausländer a) eine Niederlassungserlaubnis besitzt, b) eine Erlaubnis zum Daueraufenthalt – EU besitzt, c) eine Aufenthaltserlaubnis nach den §§ 18d, 18f oder § 25 Absatz 1 oder Absatz 2 Satz 1 besitzt, d) seit zwei Jahren eine Aufenthaltserlaubnis besitzt und die Aufenthaltserlaubnis nicht mit einer Nebenbestimmung nach § 8 Abs. 2 versehen oder die spätere Erteilung einer Niederlassungserlaubnis nicht auf Grund einer Rechtsnorm ausgeschlossen ist; dies gilt nicht für eine Aufenthaltserlaubnis nach § 25 Absatz 2 Satz 2, e) eine Aufenthaltserlaubnis nach § 7 Absatz 1 Satz 3 oder nach den Abschnitten 3, 4, 5 oder 6 oder § 37 oder § 38 be»The three conditions and the list of qualifying titles. The quotation ends where the stored line ends.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Germany's consolidated federal statute book, served as plain HTML with the whole Act on one page at a stable address built from its Bundesgesetzblatt number. Each Act carries a footer stating the amendment it is current to.
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Practical notes
Exceptions to the language requirement exist in the paragraphs that follow and are not read here.
A spouse of a German national is under a different provision of the same Act, not this one.
- consolidatesAufenthaltsgesetz, § 30
Gesetze im Internet, Bundesministerium der Justiz und Bundesamt für Justiz
About this source
Germany's consolidated federal statute book, served as plain HTML with the whole Act on one page at a stable address built from its Bundesgesetzblatt number. Each Act carries a footer stating the amendment it is current to.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The portal states that the texts are not official and that the Bundesgesetzblatt governs. It is served as ISO-8859-1 with the charset in a meta tag, so a fetch assuming UTF-8 destroys every umlaut. The English translations published alongside are explicitly non-binding and are never quoted here.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source