For anyone navigating German immigration from abroad — or who simply does not want to sit in a waiting room — VISAGUARD is one of the more unusual immigration practices in Berlin: it runs almost entirely online, at published prices.
VISAGUARD.Berlin is the practice of Mirko Vorreuter, a German Rechtsanwalt admitted to the Rechtsanwaltskammer Berlin who holds the title Fachanwalt für Migrationsrecht — the certified specialist qualification in migration law. He sat his first state examination at the University of Münster and completed his Referendariat at the Oberlandesgericht Naumburg. The practice is registered at Mühlenstr. 8a in Berlin-Zehlendorf, and the Impressum names him as the responsible lawyer.
He does not work alone. The team page lists a group of cooperating immigration lawyers around the practice — among them Ursula Seeböck, who worked in federal administration in Berlin and Brussels; Dr. Theresa Rath, who advises in five languages; Eva Witt, a former Global Mobility Manager; Klara Kampfmann; and Andreas Eibelshäuser. All of them work on immigration only, which matters more than headcount: a generalist firm with an immigration desk and an immigration firm are not the same purchase.
Immigration-only practice in Berlin. Certified specialist in migration law. Consultations by video call at €190 including VAT for up to 60 minutes, in German or English. Fixed prices instead of hourly billing. Files handled digitally with authorities nationwide. Asylum is out of scope.
The core of the practice: skilled-worker residence permits on the academic and non-academic tracks, the EU Blue Card, job-seeker visas and the Opportunity Card. Employer-side work — labour migration, the ICT Card, managing-director visas — sits in the same practice.
Spouse and child reunification, parents joining a minor, and marriage visas. This is the category where one missing certificate or one untranslated document costs months, and where an embassy’s reading of the file matters as much as the statute.
Permanent settlement (Niederlassungserlaubnis) and German citizenship, including the status questions that decide whether your years in Germany actually count toward either.
The part most consultations never reach: representation before the Ausländerbehörde, German embassies and the administrative courts, including the Visumklage — the action you bring when a visa file has simply gone quiet. A practice that litigates these files reads an application differently from one that only submits them.
As at 1 January 2025, across all 28 German bar associations. Labour law, for comparison, has more than 11,000 title holders. This is a small field.
The specialism is young. It grew roughly twentyfold in eight years and was among the fastest-growing of all specialist titles in 2025, at +6.77%.
Plus written examinations — typically three to five five-hour papers — and mandatory continuing education every year after certification.
The case quota is the part that cannot be bought. Thirty court proceedings means the lawyer has argued immigration files in front of judges, not only filed them at a counter.
Sources. The title counts are the Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer membership and specialist statistics as at 1 January 2025, as tracked by LTO and published by the BRAK. The training, examination and case requirements are set by the Fachanwaltsordnung and are laid out in VISAGUARD’s own explainer on the title. Anyone in Germany may describe themselves as an immigration lawyer; only those 268 may use the title.
Most German firms bill by the hour, which is exactly why people put off calling one. A published price answers the question you otherwise cannot: what will it cost me just to find out where I stand?
The consultation is a product with a price on it: €190 including 19% VAT for up to 60 minutes. You are buying the hour, not opening an engagement you later have to escape.
No Berlin address needed, no waiting room, no travel. Advice is available in German and English, which for most internationals is the difference between understanding the options and nodding along.
If the matter continues, the firm works to fixed prices rather than hourly billing and runs the file digitally, corresponding with immigration authorities nationwide on your behalf.
You have a work, family or settlement matter, you want a specialist opinion quickly and remotely, and you want to know the price before committing. It fits especially well if you are still outside Germany, where finding a lawyer who will take a video call before you arrive is half the problem.
You specifically want someone sitting across a desk from you, or your matter is an asylum case. VISAGUARD is built around residence and skilled migration; asylum sits outside that focus, and a dedicated asylum practice will serve you better.
One practical note that applies to any firm, not just this one. An hour is short, and the consultations that go badly are the ones that spend the first half establishing facts the lawyer could have read in advance — which permit you hold, when it expires, what the office has already asked you for. Arrive with that written down and the hour you booked becomes an hour of legal judgment instead of an interview.
Everything here was written by Case from public material, and VISAGUARD has not reviewed it. Nothing on this page is a recommendation, a ranking, or a judgement about anyone’s legal work — and Case, which prepares case files rather than practising law, has no commercial relationship with the firm. The full note is at the foot of the page.
€190 including 19% VAT for an online consultation of up to 60 minutes, held by video call. The firm publishes the figure rather than quoting on request, and works to fixed prices rather than hourly billing for any work that follows. Confirm the current fee on the firm's own booking page before relying on it.
It is Germany's certified specialist title in migration law. To hold it, a lawyer must complete 120 hours of specialist training, pass written examinations, and document at least 80 immigration cases of which 30 were court proceedings — then keep training every year afterwards. There were 268 holders in all of Germany as at 1 January 2025, so it is a genuine filter rather than a marketing line.
Yes — that is the point of the model. Consultations are held by video call and the procedure that follows is handled digitally, with the firm corresponding with German immigration authorities and embassies on your behalf. You do not need to be in Berlin, or in Germany.
No. The practice is residence and skilled-migration law: work visas, the EU Blue Card, study visas, family reunification, settlement, naturalisation and employer-side immigration, including proceedings before authorities, embassies and the administrative courts. Asylum sits outside its focus.
No. It is an informational profile of a practice in the German immigration market, written from the firm's own published material and public bar statistics. Case has no financial relationship with the firms it profiles, and nothing here is legal advice.
Case prepares the case file; a licensed German immigration lawyer reviews it and gives the legal advice. A lawyer's hour is worth far more when the file is already complete, sorted and free of the gaps that otherwise eat the first half of a consultation.
Whichever lawyer you choose, the consultation is worth more when the case file is complete. Tell us your situation and we map the requirements, the documents and the deadlines before anyone starts the clock.
Last reviewed 28 August 2026. Fees, availability, staff and areas of practice change without notice. Confirm the current details with the firm itself before you rely on anything here.
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