Germany, visa with simple criteria for employing professional immigrants

Germany, for this reason, should be much more effective in attracting qualified employees from third countries, states the relevant document ʹ with third countries undertook countries outside the EU.

The document, formulated under the management of the Interior Ministry and followed for completion at the Ministry of Labour and Economy in late August, will be handed over to Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet. With the insistence of Christian Interior Minister (CSU)Horst Seehofer intended to avoid a <x1migration on social security systems”.

Germany does not prefer score system

Unlike countries like Great Britain, Canada and Australia, the German government will not apply the score system. In such a system migrants are subjected to a verification of several stages in which education, financial status, language knowledge, and skills are largely valued at the job market. The conditions that meet migrants are classified by a certain number of points. If the score is high they get a visa. If the score is low, they are not accepted.

Such a system was proposed by the Social Democrat party in 2016. The proposal was then welcomed by other centre-left parties. In the current draft, it is recommended that people be chosen on the basis of the above-mentioned criteria, but not with the dot system.

How the assessment can be made under such circumstances, therefore experts are currently not clear. “Stir up the question, how could this be applied”, says Thomas Liebig, migration researcher near O ECD's (Organiases for Economic Co-operation and Development). I don't know how such criteria can be assessed. A dot system is needed in this case. ”

Simple Guide for Qualified Candidates

For highly educated people Germany already has one of the world's simplest migration laws. Under current conditions it's easier to come to Germany than to do. Go to Canada”, Liebig says. The German “System already focuses on very formal qualifications. If you have qualifications and a job, you can come to Germany. You don't even have to speak German. ”

Germany gives highly qualified people a visa. You can even come without a concrete job in Germany and look for work.

But what's missing in Germany is people with so-called middle-level qualifications -- nurses, stewards, child garden helpers, and professionals like electricians or carpenters. For all these trades, there must be formalized qualifications. According to Liebig, such jobs cover 60 per cent of the German labour market.

There have been obstacles to recognition of such qualifications so far. Avoiding this obstacle, predicted in the draft as “key for a successful integration into the” labour market.

Denmark Example

It is unclear in the draft, what further requirements are needed: what level of German language knowledge must prove possible migration? Should applicants have a concrete job offer from a German company?

Meanwhile, it seems that the German government is trying to provide visas for those seeking employment and have an average level of qualifications. Such a model has proved to be highly preferred in Denmark. But there is no experience in Germany.

Much depends on whether German employers are willing to consider such a risk - employing people with a corresponding visa. “This is a big question”, Liebig says. It draws attention that many German enterprises do not prefer to employ people from outside. “We've asked German employers if they're interested in getting employees from foreign labour markets. The dominant answer was no, by no means. ”

“At the moment appears to be applying a system of two stages: come people looking for jobs. If they find a job, then they get a” visa, Liebig explains.

Simplifying bureaucracy

To become more attractive to people with specific skills or education, France has recently preciseed a migration law. As in Germany, it is intended to simplify bureaucracy. In the case of France, this affects mainly employees with leading positions for international enterprises, who earn over 5,000 Euros a month, normally these are scientists, employees in the entertainment industry, seasonal workers and registered professions.

While Sweden follows a much more liberal policy é “make progress there you can go for any kind of work”, Liebig says. France is closed otherwise. Germany will be positioned somewhere in the middle.”