lrwilks

Saija, thanks so much for you generous and detailed response! It definitely helps, even if just emotionally :) One question I would ask is your advice on whether its better for me to stay stateside, finish school here, then move and deal with the language and possibly more schooling because of the coursework difference...OR....leave behind what I"ve started with, go there and deal with language and degree, and then risk having to "start over" in some ways like you mentioned, if I ever came back to the US to work? Hard I know...but any advice?

I am a US citizen hoping to move to Germany in the spring and begin nursing school in the fall of 2012. I have about 2.5 years in college biology credit but no degree. I am working currently on my language skills, as I know I have to become fluent first. I am hoping to marry my fiance by next summer, so I am also looking to into visa issues as I know that will play into it. But I have to be accepted by the school before I can apply for the student visa. Beyond language fluency, what are the next steps in becoming eligible to begin schooling next fall? I have e-mailed with a few schools/hospitals I am looking at and all of them have directed me to the Regierundspräsidium of the Bundesland...which hasn"t been helpful. Where do I go from here?