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For your foreign employees, we go through the entire process, from the invitation to the receipt of the HQS work permit.

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IMPORTANT: A foreign employee from a non-EU country must have a work permit to work for your company. There are few exceptions.

GENERAL

Citizens of countries that are not members or contractual partners of the EU (“third countries”) may only work in Germany with a residence permit including employment permission. However, some third-country nationals do not require a residence permit of this type. These include:

  • managing director of his/her own GmbH – a so-called “managing partner”,
  • citizen of a country of the European Economic Area (EEA),
  • citizens of Switzerland.

There are different types of residence permits with an employment permission. A distinction is made between residence permits that require approval and those that do not. For a residence permit that requires approval, the approval of the Federal Employment Agency (“FEA”) must be obtained. A good overview of residence permits that require and do not require approval can be found at the Employment Agency here (German). Please do not hesitate to ask us about an explanation.

Below we prescribe the requirements of the most common Blue Card.

BLUE CARD – PREREQUISITES

The comparatively simplest residence permit for an academic or a highly qualified specialist is the Blue Card, which is issued without the consent of the FEA. However, the following requirements must be met:

  • a German, recognized foreign university degree or equivalent must be available. You can check a degree at the Anabin database here https://anabin.kmk.org/anabin.html.
  • a concrete job offer from a German company shall be issued,
  • the job must correspond to your qualification,
  • gross annual salary shall be at least 56,400 euros (as of 2022).

If these requirements are met, you can devote yourself to the process of issuing a visa and entering the country.

If you do not meet these requirements, there is no need to worry. You can apply for a work visa for skilled personnel in accordance with § 18 (1) of the Residence Law. We can help you with that.

Germany is very interested to welcome skilled employees. There are therefore many other ways of obtaining a work permit. Talk to us about this.