What the two German bills say that enable employment there

Germany aims to facilitate immigration for the qualified workforce and adjust the stance of former integrated refugees.

Three days before the end of the week's holidays and after very long debates, the government of Chancellor Merkel passed two bills for immigration qualified workers. They were introduced Wednesday by three ministers: Horst Seehofer, Interior Affairs Minister Hubert Heil, Labour and Social Affairs Minister and Peter Altmayer, economy minister, at a joint press conference in Berlin. The first bill regulates the immigration of the workforce from abroad, while the second bill allows the rejected former asylum seekers (with Duldung) to return to economic immigrants.

Resurrecting the Law on Migration of Qualified Ones

German qualified immigration bill: Fachkräftewanderungsgesetz aims to remove the current obstacles to regular economic immigration. He will bring about these changes compared to the current law:

The term <x0 skilled employee”, which under the new law, includes both highly educated and highly educated graduates, but with professional qualifications;

The priority priority for the skilled working contract is removed: So far the working visa is given only when it has been confirmed that there are no Germans or EU citizens with the same qualifications that can do that, with the new law, this verification falls.

The limit to immigration is lifted only for professions that lacked labor power and marketed for any qualified;

Like highly educated graduates, other qualified people will have the chance to come to Germany on a six - month visa to look for work. The precondition for obtaining this visa is knowledge of the German language (mimium level A2) and enough money to make a living during Germany's work - research period. According to Interior Minister Seehofer, after they have found their job and made the contract, they must apply back to the embassy for work visas.

) Improves the possibility of staying in Germany to make qualifications or exams for recognition of the degree or certificate made in the country of origin;

The visa procedure is simplified, the competencies focus on the foreign office, and the provision of visas for the workforce is accelerated.
What happens to ex-azilants?

The second bill concerns changing status from the rejected former asylum seekers (current status status status status: Duldung, Imigrant. A 30-month temporary residence permit is envisioned for this crossing, in German, called “Beschäftigsduldung”, before passing on regular residence permit. But only those asylumrs who have met these conditions benefit from this rule:

Have they been in full - time working relations for at least 18 months;

To be able to cover their own livelihood;

To have integrated families, for example, children attend school regularly;

) be at least a year with Duldung status;

Have at least language knowledge at A2 level;

If they were not convicted;

They may not have tried to hide their true identity.

This law for former refugees is meant to be valid first by mid-2022. If the experience with him is good, it will be extended, otherwise it will be revised”, Interior Minister Seehofer said.

When can laws come into force?

Both laws will take effect on 1 January 2020. But first they must be approved by parliament (Bundestag) and the Federal Council (Budestras).

Likely in parliament, bills will undergo minor changes, especially in terms of testing the Duldung people law. The greatest fear of Christian Democrats and Christians is that granting the residence permit for refused asylum seekers can serve as a lure for many economic immigrants to come to Germany illegally, originally as asylum seekers, in hopes of returning to immigrants.

Matthias Middelberg, CDU MP from the Bundestag Commission for Internal Affairs, has now warned that in an interview given to the newspaper “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” that he plans to speak to the SPD for cutting that deadline.

As Interior Minister Seehofer announced, the bill enables the government to suspend the law in case mass abuses are found.

Laws are expected to pass through Bundestag and Bundestrat by mid-2019 so that they can be put into existence in early January 2020. According to experts, from the adoption of the law to the establishment of the infrastructure needed for its implementation it takes six months. / DW