What are the ways to immigrate to Germany and obtain a residence permit in Germany?

Invest 25,000 euros in Germany to start a company and apply for immigration to Germany. After five years, you can apply for permanent residence. Moreover, compared with traditional immigrant countries such as Canada, Australia and the United States, the German government promotes a more convenient and transparent immigration policy to attract outstanding talents to work and settle in Germany.

Immigration profile

Like other countries in the world, Germany has a long history of immigration. The reason for emigration has always been the same: people emigrate for the happiness of themselves and future generations. From 65438 to 0950, there were 500,000 immigrants living in Germany, accounting for 1% of the total population of Germany.

After that, Germany experienced several waves of immigration:

From 1955 to 1973, the number of foreigners living in Germany reached 4 million. These foreigners mainly come from Italian, Spanish, Greek, Turkish, Moroccan, Portuguese, Tunisia and other countries.

From 1973 to 1985, foreigners who immigrated to Germany mainly had family reunion. From 65438 to 0985, the number of immigrants living in Germany reached 4.4 million. In fact, one in five people living in Germany now has an immigrant background. Today, Germany has become a multicultural country.

With the process of global integration, the population flow and communication between countries and regions are increasing day by day, and a long-term immigration phenomenon will inevitably bring far-reaching influence to German society. In order to strengthen its competitiveness in the world, Germany promulgated the immigration law in 2005, which legally confirmed its status as an immigrant country. At the same time, it provides legal advice on how to introduce immigrants and how to successfully integrate immigrants from all over the world into German society. In order to ensure the economic development of Germany, Germany has formulated a series of immigration laws and regulations to ensure the transparent and efficient implementation of immigration application procedures.

It is an important task for the German federal government to let foreigners immigrate to Germany legally and stay in Germany permanently. For this reason, the German government provides all-round services for immigrants, such as providing immigration courses to ensure that Germany is tolerant and welcoming to foreign immigrants.

On July 14, 2006, Germany held a special meeting in Berlin to discuss how to better integrate immigrants into Germany. Federal Rep. Angela Merkel called the meeting a "historic moment". Participants adopted the migration planning plan drafted in 2007.

Germany competes with other immigrant countries in the world for human resources and capital to promote German economic development. In order to ensure the sustained and high-speed development of German economy, Germany realizes that it needs a stable and sustainable immigration policy to ensure attracting talents and funds from all over the world to settle in Germany. On June 5438+1 October1day, 2005, the immigration law was officially implemented, which legally guaranteed the German government's immigration efforts.

immigration law

On June 65438+ 10/day, 2005, the new German immigration law came into effect. Germany's new immigration law legally determines the legal procedure and legal status of foreigners immigrating to Germany for the first time, thus legally determining that Germany is an immigrant country. Germany's new immigration law includes four parts: labor immigration, humanitarian immigration, immigration planning and homeland security.

The new immigration law stipulates that there are two kinds of residence permits in Germany:

The first category is: temporary residence permit.

The second category is: permanent residence permit.

The residence permit is issued according to the purpose of the applicant's stay in Germany. The purpose of ordinary residence permit is: study, gainful employment, family reunion, dependent immigration and humanitarian reasons.

According to Germany's new immigration law, scientists, excellent teachers, experts or managers with special skills are highly skilled talents, and their wages are twice that of locals; Investors who invest 10 million euros and employ10 local employees can directly obtain permanent residence permits. Applicants who have been approved by the German Federal Ministry of Labor and obtained employment contracts from German employers can obtain residence permits for paid employment purposes. For this reason, applicants who hold temporary residence permits will be converted into permanent residence permits if they meet the requirements of self-employment immigration or high-quality immigration after three years, or they will be extended to five years if they hold temporary residence permits for another two years. Those who meet the requirements of immigration and have no criminal offences can be converted into permanent residence permits.

Third-country citizens from non-EU countries can apply for a residence permit for temporary employment purposes by setting up a company in Germany, and then transfer to Germany for permanent residence after three to five years.