So someone with a high-paid job, C1 German (literally fluent) and volunteering work is apparently not good enough for the 3 fast track. Thought they wanted immigrants to integrate?
At the very least, you can get permanent residency after 21 months on an EU Blue Card in Germany. Actually, Permanent Residency is controlled by the EU, and so it’s supposed to take 5 years at most and salary requirements are supposed to be non-existent or low.
This is how you end up with far-right Meloni’s Italy giving out permanent residency to working immigrants earning at least €7k a year while restricting citizenship. How working immigrants in Spain can get PR with no salary requirements in 5 years while citizenship takes 10 years. How international students in Germany can work part-time which counts towards pension contributions, and then get a job afterwards and get PR in 2 years while CDU is trying to restrict citizenship.
The EU Commission is trying to make it easier to get permanent residency by shortening it to 3 years from 5 years and stremalining the EU Blue Card. Essentially, it seems the EU is wanting legal working immigrants, but the EU countries want to make it harder for them to become citizens. Well, except France where it still takes 3 years to get French citizenship if you do a Master’s Degree (time spent on the degree counts towards it). Also, Ireland, no changes to permanent residency or citizenship (5 years).
Permanent residency isn’t so bad, anyway, if you’re just looking to work without being tied to your employer, you can also access healthcare. Funnily enough, it seems the UK is the only European country to really be talking about permanent residency, but I guess that’s because other EU countries know it’s controlled at the EU level.
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So someone with a high-paid job, C1 German (literally fluent) and volunteering work is apparently not good enough for the 3 fast track. Thought they wanted immigrants to integrate?
At the very least, you can get permanent residency after 21 months on an EU Blue Card in Germany. Actually, Permanent Residency is controlled by the EU, and so it’s supposed to take 5 years at most and salary requirements are supposed to be non-existent or low.
This is how you end up with far-right Meloni’s Italy giving out permanent residency to working immigrants earning at least €7k a year while restricting citizenship. How working immigrants in Spain can get PR with no salary requirements in 5 years while citizenship takes 10 years. How international students in Germany can work part-time which counts towards pension contributions, and then get a job afterwards and get PR in 2 years while CDU is trying to restrict citizenship.
The EU Commission is trying to make it easier to get permanent residency by shortening it to 3 years from 5 years and stremalining the EU Blue Card. Essentially, it seems the EU is wanting legal working immigrants, but the EU countries want to make it harder for them to become citizens. Well, except France where it still takes 3 years to get French citizenship if you do a Master’s Degree (time spent on the degree counts towards it). Also, Ireland, no changes to permanent residency or citizenship (5 years).
Permanent residency isn’t so bad, anyway, if you’re just looking to work without being tied to your employer, you can also access healthcare. Funnily enough, it seems the UK is the only European country to really be talking about permanent residency, but I guess that’s because other EU countries know it’s controlled at the EU level.