How Ankomly works
From your first question to a verified lawyer, step by step. Free for you, with no commission and no hidden costs.
Your case, step by step
- Describe what is happening
Write in your own words and language, or tap a situation. Ankomly suggests the topic and the experts who are licensed for it. Phone numbers, emails and similar details are removed before your text is sorted.
- Get free general steps
For your answers, the situation check shows how urgent it usually is, the usual deadlines, next steps and letters you can send yourself.
- Post your case
Free and without obligation. Only verified experts licensed for that topic and country see it, without your name or email.
- Compare offers
Experts send a fixed price, how long it takes and what is included. You see their licence check, languages, reviews and usual response time.
- Choose and work together
When you accept an offer, that one expert sees your first name. You can message each other and share documents in the app. Nobody else can.
- Finish and review
When the work is done, you mark the case as finished and can leave a review. Only people with a finished case can write one.
How we check experts
Before a profile goes live, we check the entry in the official register (for lawyers in Germany, the federal lawyer directory), the person’s identity, their professional liability insurance and their office address.
The “Licence checked” badge is valid until a set date: at the latest six months later, and never after the insurance ends. Then we check again. If a check runs out, the badge disappears.
Relocation helpers support practical things like finding a flat or booking appointments. They may not give legal advice, and their profiles say so.
What it costs
Searching, the situation check, your residence status, office waiting times and posting a case are free.
You pay only the expert whose offer you accept: the price in the offer, agreed and paid directly with them. Ankomly takes no commission, from you or from the expert.
Official fees, for example for a visa or a residence permit, are always paid directly to the authority, never to an expert or to Ankomly.
Free tools, even without a lawyer
What Ankomly does not do
- Ankomly does not give legal advice and does not assess your case legally. Our information and letter templates are general help; advice comes only from the licensed expert you choose.
- Nobody can guarantee a visa, a permit or citizenship: only the authority decides. If someone promises a guaranteed result, or asks you to pay official fees to them, report them.
- Where AI helps sort your message into a topic, it is labelled as AI. It never answers your legal question.