Berlin: The German government has introduced attractive facilities to attract foreign talent with professional qualifications.
According to sources, several bureaucratic procedures have been done away with to facilitate skilled people coming to Germany for employment from abroad and more steps are being taken to make the immigration system attractive.
Schengen Visa Information.com According to the report, Germany is now on the way to further reform the law to increase foreign skilled workers, which was implemented on March 1, 2020.
The current German government launched reforms to the act on November 30 last year, with the main aim of increasing the recruitment of skilled workers from third countries to the German labor market.
According to the Schengen Visa Report, within a year, 50,000 German visas were issued to skilled third-country nationals under this act despite the Covid-19 pandemic and border closures.
The citizens of Serbia were given the highest number of visas, more than 2,000, while other countries are also among the countries that receive the most visas.
Also, Bosnia and Herzegovina is ranked seventh with 1,159 visas, while Kosovo and Albania are ranked ninth and tenth with 792 and 778 visas respectively.
Reforms
The Europe Blue Card is a European residence document issued by EU member states individually to highly qualified workers from outside the EU.
The said document gives its holders the full right to live and work in an EU country provided they have high professional qualifications such as a university degree and an employment contract and a job offer in the EU.
In addition, formal recognition of university degrees is no longer necessary because the German government wants to allow third-country nationals to work in Germany in their field of expertise without going through formal recognition procedures for their degree and professional qualifications. .
A statement regarding the BMI reforms said that in future it would be sufficient if a foreigner can prove his/her qualifications for an unorganized profession through a skilled or university degree and professional experience.
Nevertheless, it will remain a condition that foreign workers are offered a salary above a fixed threshold to ensure fair working conditions and pay the foreigners.
Professional qualification can be recognized after arrival in Germany. According to those who want to have their foreign professional qualifications recognized in Germany, the government wants to make it possible for them to start the process after they enter the country and not before, as is the case now.
The government believes that such a change will enable employers to hire foreign experts more quickly, as well as make it easier for workers to have their qualifications recognized in Germany, as well as Also work in qualified employment.
