Relocation Assistance

Your Military and Family Support Center provides relocation assistance to help make PCS moves as smooth as possible. Resources include:

• PCS planning: Most relocation assistance programs offer consultations to help you with the moving process. If this your first military move, your first time moving overseas or you have challenging or complex circumstances contact your installation Relocation Assistance Program as soon as possible for support.
• Plan My Move: An online Defense Department relocation tool that provides you with customizable checklists and links to helpful resources for the tasks ahead.
• Military OneSource: A website and call center that offer 24/7 support for moving information and resources. Learn more about PCS basics and download this fact sheet 7 Steps to Make Your Household Goods Move a Smart Move. For comprehensive moving resources and information, including Defense Personal Property log in details, visit Moving Your Personal Property.
• Workshops and briefings: Workshops vary by location. You may find classes on housing options, moving with children, moving with pets and more.
• Predeparture briefings: These sessions provide essential information about your move and may be required for some populations.
• Special needs: If you have a child or family member enrolled in the Exceptional Family Member Program, contact your installation EFMP-Family Support office to assist you.
• Settling-in services: Look for welcome programs or local area tours that may offered. Overseas services may include introductory language classes and cultural awareness activities.
• Foreign-born spouse support: Assistance includes information and referral to resources such as immigration and naturalization.
• Emergency assistance: Sometime emergencies occur while moving. The Military and Family Support Center has the resources to provide emergency financial assistance, as well as information and referrals.
• Authorized housing flexibility options: Eligible service members with PCS orders may be entitled to flexibilities such as extended stays in government housing and early housing eligibility. Contact your military personnel office for more information.
• Spouse licensure reimbursement: Your service branch may reimburse spouses up to $1,000 for relicensure and certification costs resulting from relocations or PCS moves. See this Military OneSource article Transferring Your Professional License for more information and specific service branch policies.

USAG Bavaria Army Community Service (ACS) Satellite Center has a Loan Closet to equip your quarters with basic household items until the delivery of your household goods. It is important that you tell your sponsor upon your arrival about any special requirements or needs you will have.

Once you have arrived, your sponsor will show you around and take you to Building 203 on Artillery Kaserne to begin in-processing. In Building 203, you will find the ACS Satellite Office, the Housing Office, Installation Pass and Identification Card Office, Installation Access Control, Vehicle Registration offices, Transportation Office and Drivers Testing.

Installation Specific Information

The ACS Satellite Office maintains information, guidance, and assistance for those relocating to USAG Bavaria - Garmisch-Partenkirchen area. Welcome packets, maps and other community and local Garmisch information is available. Stop by Building 203 upon your arrival to obtain the latest publications and information.

The Sponsorship Program is alive and well in the USAG Bavaria Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Oberammergau communities. If you are on assignment or have accepted a position and have not been contacted by your sponsor, contact your gaining organization or ACS. Youth Services has a Child and Youth Sponsorship program as well.

Youth Sponsorship -- So you're coming to Garmisch. Now what? Get Connected! Sign up for our Youth Sponsorship program and be paired with a Garmisch youth sponsor of the same age and interests. Your sponsor can tell you what's going on, where the fun is and what to expect when you arrive.

Permanent Change of Station Preparation -- It is highly recommended that you carry certain items with you: passports, all medical and dental records for you and your family, school records and transcripts, birth certificates, ID cards, your last Leave and Earnings Statement, addresses of all your creditors, banks, real estate agents, insurance companies, extra copies of your orders, current stateside driver’s licenses, the inventory sheets of your property shipments and extra refills for needed prescriptions (enough to get you by for a couple months until you get established with the local health providers). These are just a few suggestions. Any other phone numbers, addresses or important papers particular to you and/or your family should be considered. It is also a good idea to have originals of any legal documents you have, including marriage certificates, divorce decrees, adoption papers and school transcripts. Occasionally, you may need certified true copies of these, which can be obtained through the Legal Assistance Office, but only if you have the originals in your possession.

Please reach out to Army Community Service for additional support.

CIV: +49 9641-70-521-3572 

DSN: 314-521-3572 

email: usarmy.bavaria.id-europe.list.garmisch-acs@army.mil