A new immigrant in Germany may be required to take an Integrationskurs, an integration course. The Residence Act states its principle in three words: integration wird gefördert und gefordert, is supported and required. The course has a fixed structure. It consists of a language course of 600 lessons and an orientation course of 100 lessons on the legal order, culture and history of Germany. The orientation course ends with a test called Leben in Deutschland, life in Germany. The courses were introduced in 2005. The orientation course was 45 lessons at first. It was extended to 60 lessons in 2012 and to 100 in 2016.