> Germany has liberalised its immigration rules, but the visa process is still glacial and the system favours refugees over professionals who might want to settle in the country.
A big issue for professionals to move is they have to learn German.
A big issue for professionals to move is they have to learn German.
The biggest issues are housing and the horrendously slow immigration office. Bureaucracy in general is so slow that some people give up and leave. Employers can't wait 4 months for employees to get the permission to start working. Employees get tired of waiting for weeks for every little piece of paper. It's infuriating.
However, maybe a standardised pronunciation and the removal of some issues could make Neo-English a good and interesting language.
This outdated overview (2009) shows that most European countries only require A1/A2 for residency, and for citizenship B1 or B2 at most. https://rm.coe.int/16802fc1d9
That's exactly what Indonesian is , a simplified standardized language to allow hundreds of different ethnicities with their own languages to easily communicate.
There are tons more but I guess Indonesian is the world's best example because it is the language of one the most populated island on earth and one of the most populus nations
And there's no need for three tenses, neither Chinese nor Indonesian have tenses.
I don't know anything about Indonesian so, it's nice to know my idea is not a crazy one.
If Chinese and Indonesian do not have tenses, how they communicate when the action happens?
:)
Also, as a professional, in the big cities like Berlin and Hamburg, there is a different immigration centre and they process your paperwork way faster.
- if you don't speak German, then chances are you want to live in the big cities (Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Cologne,...) where some fraction of the population speak English... but in those cities there's a huge demand for flats and the offer is not up to it. Also, just by not speaking German you cut probably 50% of the flat offers already because they are offered by people who don't speak English
- if you just moved to Germany and you're applying to a flat, chances are they will ask you your last 3 payslips (this is not a law, but if they ask and you don't provide, well goodbye!)
But honestly, in which countries is that really different? The only ones I remember stories about would be the Netherlands and Sweden, but also only if you're living in a big city and not in a small town. Obviously I'm leaving out the countries where their main language is English already and assuming you speak English. And Spain if you come from a Spanish-speaking country, and France if you come from a French-speaking country... but overall I just think that this is the default?
And then there's work: There's a lot of good paying and rewarding tech jobs here that would seem foreign to SV types, in very specific domains or more traditional B2B. Getting a job at those places without speaking German is surely possible for a programmer, just a minor handicap maybe. But for other professions, it can be downright impossible.
no idea what "german quality" or "better" is supposed to mean.
As someone else complained beforehand: the public health system is already strained, the influx of illegals, refugees and other immigrants didn't help the situation - what where people expecting?
You sure about that? For example, there's nothing better for a country like Germany to have an inmigrant who has:
- got a bacherlo/masters degree in a different country other than Germany
- has a job in a German company and earns well above the average German citizen
- pays tons of taxes
- is relatively young (between 20 and 50 years old), so doesn't get to use the health care as much as others
Besides, European countries are getting old (the 'population pyramid' is getting inverted) so they definitely need young people that work (and it doesn't even really matter if they are skilled people or not; what's needed is people in the age of working and who can spend some of their earnings in the country)
On the contrary, that is _precisely_ what Germany needs if you are to sustain the bloated bureaucracy and the pensions.
As another comment pointed out, the best kind of immigrant is the one who pays really high taxes and social contributions and doesn't use up any benefits. That means young people with no families in high paying jobs. They don't get sick, don't use the kitas/schools, don't need to get paid kindergeld (money that parents get per child), are not married so have much higher taxable income (on average, because of Ehegattensplitting), pay into the pension system from which they will almost certainly get back far less (if at all) than what they pay in, usually live in big cities so they don't drive and therefore have significantly less impact on marginal infrastructure costs and drive up demand and pay into the local services economy.
Also, if it is difficult for such immigrants to assimilate and naturalize, they will often just pack up and leave, having contributed to (but never using) the various social systems.